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MultilingNIST – a final project

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I’ve been sitting at my laptop staring at the keyboard for the last few minutes.  Not sure where to start.  Wondering how that can be…this is it!  My final project post!  Almost two years since I started COETAIL, I’m finally here and I don’t know how to begin!

Still staring at the keyboard, I decide to outline my project very briefly.  My final project video describes each of my project’s parts in detail.  Probably too much detail – it’s 14 minutes long. I was so worried that I wouldn’t have enough to say, and somehow I ended up talking for longer than I needed.

Part One:

In an attempt to share information, resources, and ideas with the NIST community, I created (with lots of help from Tosca Killoran) a website, MultilingNIST.

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The landing page for MultilingNIST

Part Two:

Course 3 piqued my interest in storytelling, so I knew that I would include elements of digital storytelling in my final project.  Ever since seeing “Many Languages, One America: 25 Bilingual Children” by Stephanie Meade, I thought about how we could create a similar video at NIST to tell the story of our multilingual community.  I drew on the expertise of Amit, a multilingual Year 6 student, who videos and edits stories for “NIST News”, an elementary student run, written, directed, and produced news show.  Amit videoed my multilingNISTs using an iPad and our green screen and edited and produced @MultilingNIST, a story about the multilingual kids at NIST.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Part Three:

As you can see on the MultilingNIST website, the focus for my final project is to connect our school community to help parents to foster, maintain, and develop multilingualism at home. To get started, I decided to create a video that offers parents 10 tips for supporting their multilingNISTs at home.  Amit took each of the photos and created the background music using GarageBand and we created the video together.

Click here to view the embedded video.

My final project video

Without further ado, my final project video attempts to explain these three parts in more detail.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Now I can breathe a huge sigh of relief that my final project is out there!  I’m looking forward to developing this project and connections with our parent community over the coming months. The great thing about COETAIL is that I now have the confidence, knowledge, and skills to continue to take my learning further.  Thank you for reading my blog, viewing the videos, and for being part of my PLN.  Until the next blog post, tweet, or face to face connection!


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