+Paul Allison was so inspired by George Mayo's “conversation” at Educon 2.4 the last weekend of Januaryhttp://educon24.org/conversations/Empowering_Students_Through_Documentary_Filmmaking that we invited him and his filmmaking colleague, +Joel Malley to join us for this episode of +Teachers Teaching Teachers. (Please subscribe:http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2 )

George and Joel talk about their work with students making student-directed documentaries on self-chosen topics. +Scott Shelhart also joins to ask questions from an elementary school teacher’s perspective and to show us a couple of videos made by George's middle school students and Joel's high school students.

A video by George Mayo's students, describing a current project - in the podcast at 21:21 Animal Euthanasia (ROUGH CUT) from mrmayo on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/36432737

A video by Joel Malley's students - in the podcast at 38:03 Skateboarding from taylorj roberts 2011 on Vimeo.http://vimeo.com/16996993

+monika hardy has a few reflections toward the end of this webcast as well. And if that's not enough, we are also joined by +Brian Paccione who will be working with Paul Allison in April on a documentary video project to add to the education videos in the MyBlockNYC project http://myblocknyc.com/#/video/id/424 Also see: http://youtu.be/13kUW4xIh2Y

Brian created this Web site and project with friends and he currently serves as the education director for MyBlockNYChttp://www.myblocknyc.com .