Boys and Girls Club Visit

On Monday, we went to the Boys and Girls Club in Richmond to help the students there plan their digital stories to honor someone in the community and their "pearl of wisdom".  I worked with a 7th grade girl from the community.  She had done her interview and had the responses typed up.  However, to interview her mother's supervisor at the local church, she had simply emailed the questions that the Boys and Girls Club had given her and then the lady responded to each question.  We watched digital stories on YouTube and the one that I had created for class.  It was hard to hear the narrative, but she found the pictures interesting.  I explained to her how she could take pictures of different things to provide a visual for the story she was telling.  She had a digital camera, but I also explained to her that she could find images on Flickr as well by searching.  In regards to the narrative, she seemed wary about how she would create a story from the responses she received.  I explained how she could introduce the woman she interviewed and what meaningful aspects of her life coincided with her Pearl of Wisdom.  The Pearl of Wisdom was "if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything", which I thought was a great piece of advice.  Between loading videos and the end of a discussion about a component of the digital story, I tried asking her questions about other things, but she would give me one word responses.  Throughout our time together, she seemed unmotivated about the narrative aspect, yet she liked seeing examples of digital stories on YouTube and about the idea of using a digital camera.  I look forward to meeting with her next time to see how she was able to incorporate her voice into what she learned from the woman she had interviewed and what types of images she chooses to support her narrative.