l - Buckingham Browne & Nichols
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BB&N’s Launch Project lived up to its name in its pilot year as several<br />
Lower School faculty members designed technology-based learning<br />
initiatives that sparked student engagement to new heights.<br />
Reading specialist Anne Mackay’s project was a perfect example, as she<br />
used a laptop computer and movie recording software to help BB&N<br />
kindergarten students discover the storytelling muse living inside<br />
their imaginations. The youngsters took Anansi stories from the Ashanti<br />
tribe of West Africa and retold them in their own words, with Mackay<br />
and kindergarten teachers helping them write scripts, build sets, and act<br />
out the reimagined stories while the cameras rolled.<br />
Mackay’s formal Launch proposal describes the project as “a multimodal,<br />
multi-sensory storytelling experience.” More simply stated, the<br />
end result was delightfully real: a collection of well-told colorful tales<br />
burned for posterity onto a DVD that brought the Lower School crowd<br />
to its feet at the premiere viewing, and copies of which now live in heavy<br />
rotation in each student’s home DVD player.<br />
And just as technology has helped kindle the excitement of learning<br />
at the Lower School, so too has the innovative success of the Launch<br />
Project encouraged BB&N to replicate the model across all three<br />
campuses this year.<br />
Reading Specialist Anne Mackay records the script on her laptop while (from left) Ethan Voligny ’19, Julia<br />
McCauley ’19, Max Lichtenberger ’19, and Donte Tyler ’19 act out the Anansi story, Oh, Kojo, How Could You?<br />
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