Let's Walk and Video

Students, when asked, can tell you a lot about the challenges they face walking or bicycling to school or just around the neighborhood.  Fast cars, loud animals, and missing sidewalks or walking places.  Student-directed walk assessments, documented on video, can do a lot to build the case and build community support for improvements to the walking and bicycling space.  

WALKSacramento, and others, are using video documentaries for students to tell their stories.  This is after all, the video generation.  They are comfortable in front of, behind and besides the video camera.  And they have used it to tell their stories:

http://walksacramento.org/students-speak

That's just us to start,  Cooler examples of where we'd love to go:

http://www.streetfilms.org/walk-to-school-day-nyc/

Location: Serna Center Computer Lab, 5735 47th Avenue, Sacrament CA

The Trainer:

Alice Mercer is a computer lab instructor at Oak Ridge ES in the Sac City USD.  She is a Sac City USD educational technology trainer and has trained and presented on using technology at national conferences:  For more on her qualifications:

http://amercerportfolio.edublogs.org/

Meeting facilities are accessible to persons with  disabilities. Requests for interpreting services, assistive listening devices, alternate formats of meeting materials or other accommodations should be made by calling Terry Preston at 916-446-9255 CA RELAY SERVICE 711 no later than five working days prior to the meeting.  This training is funded by a U.S. Dept of Transportation Safe Routes to School program grant.