Green Roofs and Role Camera

Today was the first day that I started shooting video and have to tell you wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. Really it made me feel awkward and I don't think that some of the Casey students like it. We started off with and introduction of what green roofs are and how there will be one on the new school. The student looked at the new school's design plan so they visualize where the green roof was going to be and then we went back into the computer lab to teach them more about green roofs and look at their picture of sense of place. It was exciting for the Casey student to get to look at their pictures even though not many really had to do with a sense of place but I think that it was still a good activity. Next we took the student to the EPA green roof site and let them explore like past similar activities on the computer it went OK and I'm beginning to think that their are better ways to teach kids about sustainable design then on the computer. We then went back out to the library and started on the green roof design. The Casey student seem to enjoy this more and came up with some good and creative ideas which has got the ball rolling for next weeks activity and further green roof design. At this point I asked one of the students which wasn't really participating the green roof design to help me get some footage and surprisingly it work very well. I just asked him if I let him use the video camera that he had to ask the other students about green roofs and their design and he ended up doing a great job.

Ben