¡HOLA MADRID! 6th Graders Collaborate with Students in Spain
Speaking, Recording & Editing
Here students leverage iMovie to create short videos in Spanish to encourage new friends in Spain to come visit the USA.
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”
This spring our 6th grade students, under the direction of World Language Teacher Mary Reynolds, created short videos in Spanish encouraging other students in Madrid, Spain to come visit the USA. Students practiced many skills including speaking, listening, editing and a lot of collaborating. Take a look below for yourself and see how well our students showcased different parts of the USA - all in Spanish!
Q: What specifically are you trying to accomplish with your students and how are you integrating technology into this process?
A: (Mary Reynolds, 6th Grade World Language Teacher)
An integral part of learning a world language is to give students the opportunity to make use of the five C's; Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons and Communities (CT Content Standards). Technology is certainly instrumental in providing endless opportunities to do so. In the ¡Hola Madrid! project, students have been corresponding with students from Madrid Spain throughout the year. They have introduced themselves through video presentations in which they have made use of higher-level thinking skills to create original autobiographical scripts. In our most recent endeavor, Mr. Raucci taught my students and I how to use a green screen to create exciting videos which showcase some of the magnificent and highly visited places in the United States. The project allows for an ideal interchange between students across the globe. They are not only learning to make use of their newly acquired language skills, but are also learning so much about the culture of these Madrilenian students and they are making lifestyle comparisons. They are so excited to enhance their technological knowledge base in the process!
Q: What specific technology are you using and what does this technology do?
A: (Mary Reynolds, 6th Grade World Language Teacher)
This project culminated with a group video posted on YouTube to be shared with peers in Madrid, Spain but there were many steps leading up to this final product. First, students began to create dialogue in Spanish between group members using a shared Google doc. Appropriate, high resolution images were then searched for and uploaded into a shared Google folder that team members could easily access. Once the script was complete, groups then acted out their dialog in front of a green screen in our middle school Innovation Lab. Next, members of each group partnered to edit their recordings in iMovie while incorporating green screen images, text, transitions, and music to complete their video presentations.
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards were incorporated including several strands from Global Collaborator, Creative Communicator and Digital Citizen.
GROUP VIDEO PLAYLIST
Q: Can you provide any feedback or reflection from students or other participants?
“Learning to use the green screen was fun and cool.”
“It was fun being the best editor in the world!”
“I liked learning new stuff. Best project ever!”
“Mr. Raucci was nice when we did something wrong. He just smiled and showed us how to fix our mistakes.”
