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		<title>Greetings!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t updated this blog in a long time. I used this blog to share the projects my middle school students and I did over my eight years teaching middle school. However, last summer I took a position teaching film, media and English at Blair High School. If you&#8217;re interested in what my current students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=572</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re All Set!</title>
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		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=561</link>
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		<title>Theme: The Driving Force Behind Your Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first year film literacy students have started their big movie project. Students will be spending the next few months making short films, three to four minutes long, in their production groups. I thought it would be a good idea to Skype with one of my former students, Nic Weinfeld, to get some tips as we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=545</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A film crew from our school district visited our classroom two weeks ago for our book release party. They created this great video about our children&#8217;s book project that is now posted on YouTube and I&#8217;m embedding here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=539</link>
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		<title>Keep It Simple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first year film classes are getting ready to start their movie projects. The biggest challenge for the students is coming up with interesting story ideas. I emailed my former student, Nic Weinfeld, to see if he would be available to Skype with us next week to offer some advice on coming up with original [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=513</link>
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		<title>Zoe&#8217;s Post on The Nerdy Book Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zoe, one of my 8th grade students, wrote a post about our new book, Transitions, over on The Nerdy Book Club Blog. Zoe was the main writer of Wake Up, one of the children&#8217;s stories in Transitions. She also wrote the forward for our book. If you get a chance, head over to The Nerdy Book Club [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Service Announcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three of my 8th grade students spent over two months making this 30-second PSA for our county&#8217;s Keeping It Safe Campaign. They first met a few days after school to brainstorm possible story ideas. When they finally settled on an idea, they started a Google Doc and continued their planning there. At one point, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=497</link>
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		<title>Transitions: Now Available on Amazon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our children&#8217;s book is all done and now available on Amazon.com for $15.00. The book is a collection of seven original children&#8217;s stories all based on true life experiences. The theme of the book is transitions, so all the stories have something to do with an important transitional period. For example, one group created a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flip Books and Sound Effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, my film history class created flip books as a way to learn about the persistence of vision theory. I&#8217;ve shared our flip books the last two years HERE and HERE. This year, I thought it would be interesting to try and add sound effects to each individual flip book. Fortunately, a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=476</link>
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		<title>Talking Storyboards w/ Nic Weinfeld</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Filmmaking is an art form that is all about executing a plan. Nic Weinfeld One of my former students, Nic Weinfeld, Skyped in to one of my film classes recently to talk about the importance of storyboarding. Nic is finishing his senior year in high school studying film at the acclaimed Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrmayo.org/?p=470</link>
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