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City Voices, City Visions: Buffalo Education Partnership for Digital Arts and Communication Technologies

The City Voices, City Visions project, a partnership between the University at Buffalo and the Buffalo Public Schools, provides teachers in Grades 6-12 with innovative approaches to integrating digital video arts and communication technologies into the curriculum to better enable students to achieve challenging academic standards. This professional development occurs in Annual Summer Professional Development Institutes.

Classrooms of City Voices, City Visions teachers are often hotspots of activity, with students out of their seats, shooting footage with mini-DV cameras, acting out skits, discussing issues, planning and storyboarding, researching in books and on the Internet, writing scripts and narratives, and clustering around computers in cooperative work groups, creating meaning out of the curriculum and their experiences. They describe their classrooms as being filled with excitement and learning. Students make videos as a way to learn classroom content.

Over the past three years in its pilot, model-development phase, the City Voices, City Visions (CVCV) partnership has prepared teachers from 18 Buffalo Public Schools in purposeful uses of digital video technologies with their sixth to twelfth grade urban students. The ultimate objective of CVCV is fostering student achievement by empowering them with digital video tools for visual/analytic thinking and understanding.

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