Your thoughts on what I should ask the students at the School for the Deaf
Here is the email I sent out to a number of people to ask for their input on what to ask the students at the School for the Deaf on Friday:I hope all of you know about my Girl Scout Gold Award project documentary I'm working on at the moment! For those of you who don't know much about my documentary, it's called Connecting Youth to Youth. I've already filmed two out of three of the groups involved in the documentary. I went to South Africa to film the Publik Kreativity Drama Krew in September 2005 and I traveled to Luebeck, Germany in December 2005 to film my friend, her brother, and their friends. And this coming Friday (May 26th) I'm going to film students at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, California.
I'm creating this documentary because I want people my age to be more aware of youth in other countries. I think youth and people in general would enjoy finding the many similarities they have with others in other countries and cultures and would be able to connect through their similarities. And also, I believe that youth need to be aware of the differences between everyone. These differences shouldn’t divide and separate people but create awareness of everyone’s uniqueness.
When I'm finished filming and editing I will distribute my documentary to youth organizations, schools, the Girl Scouts, and you!
So, I'm not just sending out an email to tell you about my project, I want your help! As I said before, this coming Friday (May 26th), I'm going to the School for the Deaf to interview and film some students there. I wanted to ask all of you for your input and thoughts about what I should ask and do with the students. What do you personally want to know about these high school students? Or let me put it this way, if you could ask them anything, what would you ask?
Here are examples of questions that I asked the Drama Krew in South Africa and the students in Luebeck, Germany:
What is one thing that you think makes yourself unique and different than other people?
What do you want to be when you grow up?
If you could, is there anything you would change about your school, city, or country?
Do you have friends in other countries? If you do, how did you meet them and how do you stay in contact with each other? If you don't, why not?
The questions that you come up with don't even have to be along these lines, I want to know what you really want to know about these students who happen to be deaf.
Also, what would you like to see me and the students do together? I'm going to be at the school for a couple of hours on Friday and I want to do some things other than interview, what do you want to see and find out about the students or the school? What do you want me to do with them?
There are two ways to tell me your thoughts. You can either email me back or you can post a comment on my blog for my documentary. All you have to do is go to the most recent post (it's obvious which one it is), click the button that says 'comments' and add your comment. Please put your name or some indication of who you are in the comment. Here is the address for my blog: http://connectingyouthtoyouth.blogspot.com/
If you want to know more about my documentary, please email me back!
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Cassie
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So here is where you can GIVE me your feedback! Just click the comments button right below this post! Thanks so much!
posted by Cassie @ 9:52:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Cassie. Thanks for asking me. Do you have to ask the same questions to each group you've seen or are you looking for new material? Here's a whole bunch of things I'd like to know about:
1) What made you want to join the Girl Scouts?
2) Is there anything about being a good Scout that's different from being a good person? [or] Does it help your personal development or growth to be a Scout?
3) What do you think is better or good about doing things in or with a group?
4) What do you think is better or good about being alone and doing things alone?
5) If you feel different than others because you have a hearing loss, how do you feel different? What's different being in a Troop for the deaf than one that's not for the deaf? [Does that make sense?]
6) How has your deafness effected your goals or achievements either positively or negatively or both?
7) As a global citizen, what do you see as good goals that you can help achieve in the world? (What possibilities do you see for yourself as a world citizen as opposed to a citizen of just your city?)
8) What would you do to make your city or state be a better place? Does your Troop do something?
9) How do you think you could interact with Scouts (or other young people) in some other place or country? What could you do to get together or work toward some common project?
10) Is there any way that you think or have heard that the Scouts who came before you (historically) made your life as a Scout different or better? How important are the traditions? Do you think you can effect future Scouts? How? Do the Scouts effect others who aren't Scouts?
11) Describe your family; your city; your country. How does it compare to others you've heard about?
12) What do you think you'll be doing in the future? Say, when you're 20 years old?
13) How does your Troop, class or school reach out to the hearing population to teach them about you and your uniqueness?
14) When's your cookie sale and how many kinds do you have now? Can I buy some? How much are they?
: )
And about the school and what to do....
Could they show you anything that's different about their school than other schools? Different classes or events? Can you ask them what they do to help other people communicate with them when and if there's difficulty? Or what they suggest a hearing person could do to make communication better? Are there any new or special tech devices you can see and try out? Could they teach you (Cassie) something new? They can show you how they communicate best with one another and you could film them "in action". You could turn off your sound when you produce the film in some portion of it to let us know what it's like for them. It could be overt or subtle like turning it off as you approach in the car or through traffic. Then you narrate what you did that for just after it. It could be the first part. Or you could start out with some of your own music or normal noises (laugh) then fade it away as you get closer to them or the school.
That's IT! - Aunt Sue
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