Bhubaneswar, March 26: Annual exams having just ended, students of various city schools are now vying with each other to get noticed in the cyberspace.
Video cameras in hand, they are recording their capers on campus or glancing through old footage of their oh-so-glorious moments.
This exercise follows the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) asking its affiliate schools to send videos to be uploaded on the board’s official’s channel on YouTube – the go-to site for videos on the Internet. This is aimed at giving school activities better visibility while making it possible for students to take lessons from their counterparts in any part of the country on a range of topics.
The video clips can be short films, role-plays, talks, discussions, debates, presentations or other activities. There are a variety of themes including health and wellness, gender sensitivity, life skills, value education, social and environmental issues in any of the following formats — MOV, MPEG4, AVI and WMV. They should also be original, aptly titled and not exceeding more than 10 minutes or objectionable for any section of society. Videos can also be mailed to cbsechannel@gmail.com. The deadline is March 31.
“We are giving final touches to an existing video on a community outreach project titled Reading Rainbow. For this, we had been selected as one of the top 20 schools in India for the Design for Change challenge, which empowers students to be the change they wish to see in the world,” said Nandani Mishra, a Class IX student of Sai International School here.
As part of the project, a group of seven students converted an old store room of a government school in Patia into a library besides donating books and furniture.
“There are two other videos highlighting the achievements of our students,” said Sai International teacher, Jessica Patnaik.
Students and teachers of city-based Mother’s Public School are planning to send videos of a dance-drama and a role-play.
“The former is titled Dreams Unlimited in which we have students talking about their changing aspirations in different eras.
“The latter features a student posing as Mahatma Gandhi in a witness box even as others hurl questions at him,” said school teacher, Latika Pratap.
DAV School authorities said they keep sending photographs and videos of their activities round the year.
“But in any case, we will send something noteworthy,” said a teacher of DAV, Chandrasekharpur.
At present, some videos that schools have posted on the channel (www.youtube. com/cbsechannel) include films on bullying, problems of students with disabilities and environmental concerns.
