CREATIVE
Cinema
ASSESSING and CELEBRATING
The way you assess student film should be clearly articulated when you introduce the project. Here are some rubrics based on the Center for Digital Storytelling's "7 Elements" that can be easily adapted. It is also helpful to have students involved in developing the criteria and rubric after they have seen some exemplars.
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Consider some fun activities to celebrate students' work and share it with as many people as possible:
1. Hold a film festival or viewing party and invite other classes or parents
2. Have students create categories and vote, then hold an "Academy Awards" (it's even better if everyone dresses up and you make trailer clips for the nominees)
3. Elicit peer review with something like a "wonder and a wow" activity.
4. Allow students to remix or mashup up their peers' projects or create pop-up annotated versions in Mozilla Popcornmaker.
