The ultimate objective of CVCV is fostering student achievement by empowering them with digital video tools for visual/analytic thinking and understanding. To meet this objective, City Voices, City Visions digital video project has three key goals: Providing professional development for urban teachers to learn the use of digital video arts and communication technologies to help their students meet higher learning standards in literacy and the academic disciplines; Providing greater access for urban students to wise uses of these powerful learning tools by engaging them in innovative curriculum projects to meet challenging academic standards; Publishing and archiving the student- and teacher-produced digital videos as curriculum and community resources, including their use in development of present and future urban teachers.
Seniors highlight the problem of grafitti in this public service announcement.
Seniors consider how violence outside of school influence what goes on in school in this public service announcement.
Seniors create a public service announcement using available information about teenage pregnancy.
Seniors create this video quilt to encourage others in the proper use of bathroom facilities.
This is a video quilt done by the eleventh grade ELA class. Students picked a meaningful quote related to the beginning, middle or end of the novel and then used images to help visualize the chosen quote.
This public service announcement was created by seniors in the hopes of encouraging positive behaviors in school.
A video quilt created as an interpretation of A Raisin in the Sun
Seniors created this unique video dictionary of film terms. Lafayette High School
Students in an eleventh grade ELA class create a video quilt based on the novel Raisin in the Sun.
Mrs. D. Kemp's class - Lafayette High School - Raisin in the Sun quilt