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The PFL IV students have worked hard on creating subtitles for a TED talk of their choice available on Youtube.   The example you see below is from the wonderful speech from Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story. The ability to listen carefully and work on finding appropriate equivalent words in another language was the focus of this activity.  Students also had to cooperate with colleagues as they split up the caption writing work among the group. In order to do that, a Google Doc was used a a shared space for work, so each student would negotiate the transition from one "translator" to the other as they split up the timing. Color coding was used by the teacher, Deborah Rebello, to help students in their writing revision. You can see a snapshot of the Google Doc below, which was created using the timing format accepted by Youtube captioning. This was also an exercise for all of us in terms of posting copyrighted material on Youtube. As the video was reposted with

Video is a great media to encourage student voice. In this project, students used video as a way to convince an audience of what they believed in after getting involved in  research, discussion and formal presentation. Therefore, the video was part of a long process. The importance of belief was demonstrated by a student who started researching about the use of bikes in São Paulo as a means of transportation, but then realized she did not believe it would really work out, so her focus had to be tweaked. The choice of digital tools was an important part of the project, so students were encouraged to try out different tools to express video-like motion. This resulted in the use of  SlideRocket,  iMovie and a Screencast of a Prezi presentation, as shown in the examples below. This choice of tools allowed for creativity and  innovation which is one of the standards to be used at Graded for technology integration. The combination of playback music, screencasting and SlideRocket or Prezi was