Do you really need to bring my mini-cam to the BC Winter Games?

Do you really need to bring my mini-cam to the BC Winter Games? Well, I lost that argument. You see, my youngest daughter will be competing in Karate for zone 3 at the BC Winter Games while my oldest daughter has been asked by BC Karate to be a junior referee. Everyone in my home (hubby and daughters) will be heading to Kimberley-Cranbrook around Feb 20......and the Net-Sharing Cam is going with them whether I like it or not. Sheesh! The nerves of them! Now that my husband and my kids have figured out how to use this nifty tool, they want to use it all the time. I'm truly sad because I've become quite attached to my little new toy.

Ok, so I have about one month before they leave so now I have to tape, tape, tape. Anyhow, I figured out how to use my new GC1 Net-Sharing Cam and have videotaped some of my grade 7 students practicing their plays (reader's theatre). It took me awhile to get to this point and I have to thank some of my techno students for that (this explains why I never posted a clip of me talking about my site). What a great tool and boy is the quality incredible! I never thought for a minute that something as small as a pocket size Kleenex pack could produce such quality work. There's only one problem.....I CANNOT POST MY VIDEOS ON MY WEBSITE DUE TO CONFIDENTIALITY/PRIVACY ISSUES. You see the problem I am having right now is that my website is not password protected. Anybody can visit my website without having to login. I wanted to keep my site accessible to others because I wanted people, such as other teachers, to see the possibilities of what they could do for their students. In fact, I've told many of my French Immersion teacher friends, who teach in other districts, about my site. It is always a struggle to find resources in French Immersion so I figured that by having people visit my site freely, they can use whatever they want. I have to find a way to post the video yet at the same time be able to continue to offer my resources to others. Anybody have any suggestions?

The clip you are about to view, which I allowed the kids to tape on my behalf, is a play that was created by some grade 7 Late French Immersion Students. The goal was to create a play about a character of a novel we read (La nouvelle maîtresse - the new teacher). Students were to do the play using stationery positions. This group created an awesome play. However, the sound is weak and the kids were talking wayyyyyyyyyyy too fast. It is a bit difficult to hear what the kids are saying. We are planning on doing a second take or a third, forth, etc...and make sure we practice and focus on the oral traits we talked about in class.

The kids are pretending to listen to the librarian, Mlle. Charlotte, who is reading a story. The kids fall asleep and start dreaming about something. It ends with the librarian waking them up as she finishes the story.

Enjoy!



Louise Jenkins
CDGMS
http://frenchaudio.net/ljenkins/Welcome.html
louise_jenkins@sd34.bc.ca