About

This project was inspired by the One Day on Earth video compilation project that took place on November 11, 2011. In that project, people from all over the world took photos and videos of something that happened on 11/11/11. One Day on Earth is now compiling a video of happenings from that day from all over the world.

Our students at Yokohama International School decided to take a video of their day, starting from the time they woke up to the time they went to sleep. Students from grade 5 took hundreds of photos and videos throughout the day of their different classes, recess, lunch, after school activities, etc... Then, with the help of our ICT facilitator, Elif, they compressed the footage into a 3 1/2 minute video. We submitted the video to One Day on Earth and are awaiting the full documentary next year.

In a weekend workshop about ICT and collaboration, another colleague and I came up with the idea of expanding this project to other international school students--to see how students around the world live their days. We also had a speaker earlier this year who speak about Third Culture kids and how kids all over the world in international schools have so many similarities and differences.

Hopefully, this video will be not only be a chance for students to share their school days with each other. It will also give students the opportunity to see how similar they are, and for those students who do move around a lot, a chance to see how similar it is, no matter where they are going.

International schools have some special students with unique talents and gifts, and they have a lot of experience to share. We hope that this project will bring those views and ideas together.

Thanks for participating.

Kristen Grade 5 (5B) Yokohama International School @http://blogs.yis.ac.jp/blumk/