On Friday Ilana and I held the first session in a new workshop at the Sultan Bazaar Government Girls’ High School. The exciting aspect of this pilot workshop, which is in partnership with the American India Foundation, is that four teachers are participating in addition to twelve students. During eight sessions we will teach them the camera, video, and editing skills necessary to create a multimedia project that enhances a subject from the government curricula.

In our first session, after introducing ourselves and watching a few scientific and cultural slideshows, the students and teachers shared what topics they are learning/teaching in current or upcoming classes. We broke them into three groups to brainstorm what sorts of photos and videos they might be able to take for multimedia projects on the subjects of geometry (with a focus on triangles), natural resources, and the importance of plant life. We asked the groups to do further development of these ideas before the next session Check back after Saturday to see what they come up with!