Based on our successful Director in the Classroom Preserving Your Culture workshops in Canada and the United States, this resource explains how students create oral history projects that meet curriculum requirements and benefit students, family and community now and in the future. Video Interviews of family, local artists or storytellers are combined with archival images and sounds to create portraits of community culture and history.

Over a ten week period The Director in the Classroom will help guide students through the filmmaking process, providing suggestions, suport and ideas of how to create meaningful, student produced movies.

The students have been working in groups, exploring the ideas and stories that interest them the most about their culture, history and past. Upon choosing a topic each group has then approached an elder who holds the knowledge and stories about the different topics each group has chosen. Through interviews the students have uncovered new understanding, knowledge and excitement about their heritage, culture and community. In recording these interviews the students have also begun to create a rich resource that can be used and shared among the community, for use now and in the future. At the end of the ten weeks, a copy of each movie will be screened at the Indian Band office, in front of the elders that were interviewed as well as families and friends of the students and the community. A copy of each movie will be archived at the Band Office.