Rock Star Teachers for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices!

As part of our 2009 annual report for the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling and oral history project, AT&T asked our Storychasers leadership team to identify exemplary teachers and school districts who have participated in COV.

We've identified the following teachers who have submitted multiple videos to our COV learning community. Each of these teachers has facilitated at LEAST one student-created video project. WE NEED YOUR HELP! We're sure we have not identified all the teachers who have uploaded student videos to COV. Please help us by:

1. Identifying COV teachers not listed below who have uploaded at least ONE student video to our COV learning community. You can identify teachers (including yourself, if applicable) by commenting on this forum post, or sending an email to storychasers [at] gmail [dot] com.
2. Adding the tag "student-project" to any COV video which is on our website and was created by a student or team of students. (This will let us search videos for the tag/keyword "student-project" and show those videos.) You can add this tag to videos which are NOT your own, too.

We are planning some special recognitions for teachers on this list, so if you've facilitated and uploaded at least ONE student video project to our COV learning community, please add your name. If you haven't facilitated a student video project yet, please plan to help students create one and share it before the end of this school year!

Please help us so we don't miss anyone, we want to recognize all our COV Teacher Rock Stars! :-)

Stratford Public Schools
Teacher: Rachel Keith (she's uploaded 28 videos in all!)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/RachelKeith

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Stratford Public Schools
Teacher: Megan Lynne Hinkle (uploaded 17 videos in all)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/MeganLynneHinkle

Asher Public Schools
Librarian: Whitney Allen (uploaded 17 videos in all, did whole-school Veteran's Day celebrations and interviews)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/WhitneyAllen

TenKiller School (Welling, OK)
Teacher: Pam Henley (uploaded 4 videos, 3 created by students, did whole-school Veteran's Day celebrations and interviews)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/PamHenley

Cordell Public Schools
Teacher: Vicki Hull (uploaded 4 videos, 3 created by students)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/VickieHull

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Cordell Public Schools
Teacher: Lee Ann Blackburn (2 videos, "Oklahoma Alphabet" is a great example of an elementary class video project)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/LeeAnnBlackburn

MidDel Public Schools
Teacher: Christie Paradise (2 videos, both good examples of elementary class videos)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/ChrisParadise

Hydro-Eakly Public Schools
Teacher: Laura Thiessen (4 videos, 3 student created focusing on Veteran history / recognition)
http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/profile/LauraThiessen

[end of list]

Remember we have 16 new COV workshops scheduled for this spring and summer! Please tell other Oklahoma teachers you know about COV and encourage them to participate! Participation and registration details are on:
http://storychasers.org/contact-us/cov-workshop-registration-inquiry/

After we add additional teachers to our list above, we'll be posting these names and links to our main Storychasers blog, as well as notifying our friends at the AT&T Foundation.

Please let us know if we can assist you with your digital storytelling and student-created videos in 2010!