This weekend left me both exhausted and inspired.  I just flew back from Hong Kong  yesterday after a three day seminar about how to teach the International Baccalaureate  Film class, which I will be starting at our High School next year.  The task is a bit daunting- it is a lot of work, both for the students and myself-  but its also a great opportunity to explore the medium of film through analysis, history, and production- and I'm very excited.   It's also a very different approach to the moving image medium than the creative video classes I've taught.  Even though the medium the students will be working in themselves is 'digital video', the class is taught in the tradition of film, specifically narrative and documentary filmmaking.

For example, Strictly Film School is a great resource that was pointed out to me by Rosie, an art and video teacher in Guangzhou.  Ian a video teacher from New Zealand pointed out this absolutely amazing program called Celtx, which meets almost all of your pre-production film or video needs - including scriptwriting, story-boarding, and other planning resources.