Game of Awesome - transcript
[Card is put down in front of the camera it has the text Hero.]
Narrator: Hero!
[Student holds the card out towards the camera showing text and illustration and reads the text].
Student: Riding the sheep to school.
[Animation of a person with a backpack riding a galloping sheep].
[Teacher with glasses is in a school library talking to the camera].
Teacher: Using these Game of Awesome cards has brought my literacy program to life.
[Card is put down in front of the camera it has the text Crisis.]
Narrator: Crisis!
[Student holds the card out towards the camera showing text and illustration and reads the text].
Student: 101 slimy eels.
[Animation and sounds of squirming eels].
[Teacher dressed in red is in a classroom speaking to the camera].
Teacher: This is basically four decks of writing prompts.
[Card is put down in front of the camera it has the text Surprise.]
Narrator: Surprise!
[Student holds the card out towards the camera showing text and illustration and reads the text].
Student: Reading minds.
[Animation of two heads with electronic caps and a cable between them with a spark moving along it].
[Teacher with a beard speaking to the camera].
Teacher: It's fun for the adults as well. It's fun as a teacher.
[Card is put down in front of the camera it has the text Problem.]
Narrator: Problem.
[Student holds the card out towards the camera showing text and illustration and reads the text].
Student: The principal's office.
[Animation of a person sitting at a desk at the bottom of a long flight of stairs inside a cave].
Student (voice): ARGGGHHHHH!
Narrator: Welcome to - the Game of Awesome!
[Animation of the words Game of Awesome inside a flying ball of fire].
Narrator: Developed with the help of Kiwi students.
[Scene of four students sitting around a table enthusiastic about opening the box of cards].
Narrator: Coming soon to a classroom near you.
[Students are sitting around the table holding a group of cards each].
Narrator: In the Game of Awesome, a judge selects a piece of a story...
[Students are sitting around a table - one student puts on a curly grey 'judges' wig].
Student in wig: "The next card is - bom, bom, bom - Embarrassed'.
Narrator: ...and the players match it with funny and interesting ideas.
[Student shuffles through his hand of cards, chooses one, and puts it on the table].
Student with curly hair and glasses: "Dad. It is what he will do to you".
Student with sandy short hair: "A ball of earwax, you know. That's pretty embarrassing".
Narrator: If the judge picks your idea, you move closer to winning!
Student in wig: "The winner is Nico because Dad is like the most embarrassing person in the world".
[Teacher in red talking to students and pointing to their cards].
Teacher: "So is that going to be a location, an object, a character, or an action?"
Text on screen: Matt Boucher - Senior Teacher - South Wellington Intermediate School.
Matt: The kids love doing it. I've had kids beg me to play the game.
[Teacher with a beard speaking to the camera].
Text on screen: Will Thomson - Scale A Teacher - South Wellington
Will: The students actually themselves wanted to start playing it without me even mentioning it.
[Scene of a student putting on a grey judge's wig sitting at a table with other students].
Student in wig: So, the card is... Unstoppable!
Student with sandy hair: [putting a card on the table] Five thousand wētā!
Text on screen: Traci Liddall - Principal - South Wellington Intermediate School.
[Traci speaking to camera].
Traci: Anything that makes kids want to be imaginative and descriptive, has got to be a good thing.
[Scene of students in school uniform. Some are seated playing the game, and others are standing behind watching].
Student with long blonde hair: Destruction.
Student with hair tied back: I'm going to do matching tracksuits, because I think that that could, like, destroy the world of fashion forever. Yeah. [Laughter from students standing behind].
[Will speaking to the camera].
Will: They're linking things that are often very disparate, um, separate ideas, that they're forced to connect.
[Scene of students sitting around desks with cards].
Student: There was a guy who was learning to be a hippopotamus jockey. [Student across the table laughs].
Will: But they're using their imagination, and that's when kids are at their best. [nods].
Student: His mission was to ride up to the peak of Mount Everest. [Cards on the table have text: A hippopotamus jockey; The peak of Mount Everest and a third is hidden under the student's hand].
Text on screen: Howard Young - Deputy Principal - South Wellington Intermediate School
[Howard speaking to the camera].
Howard: Teaching the kids, it probably took 15 minutes before they'd embraced it and got going.
[Matt speaking to the camera].
Matt: It took me literally 10 minutes to learn how to use this in the classroom.
[Will speaking to the camera cuts to classroom scene].
Will: Probably took us about 5 minutes. The students learnt the game really quickly.
Student: As we hid in the grass, we stayed there as we heard the wheels of a TV come closer and closer.
[Cards are shown laid out on the table with text: A nervous detective paired with Sidekick; The relief teacher paid with Showdown; Australia paired with Chase. Other cards are just out of shot].
[Cards are shown laid out on a piece of paper with the title Story planner].
Howard: All five key competencies are absolutely covered in one lesson. It's a perfect lesson.
[Students are gathered around a table. A student with curly blonde hair is holding cards and talking with a student with short black hair].
Curly-haired student: Who wins?
Short black hair student: I think the best one is an angry clown.
Curly-haired student: Yussss! [Grins and raises hands triumphantly, then goes to pick up a card].
Adult voice: It self-manages itself in the way that they go off, they grab the packs, they have a quick game.
[Students gathered around a set of desks, some standing behind students who are seated with the game cards].
Student voice: I've never met a peaceful kickboxer,
[Students gathered with two seated and five standing].
Seated student: And so it's a good mentor.
[Will speaking to camera cuts to students seated around desks working in their books].
Will: As soon as I say we're moving on to our writing, they know what they're doing.
[Scene of students sitting writing at desks changes to Traci speaking to the camera].
Traci: Yes, it's fun, but that's not the point. The point is actually getting the writing, um, well established for all of the students in the class.
[Four students seated at desks pushed together to form a table. Matt, the teacher, is kneeling next to them].
Matt: I would like you guys, if you can, if you could get out your draft writing books.
[Cards laid out on a piece of paper with text Story Planner at the top. Four cards with text are: Dripping tentacles, The surface of the moon; Breakig the law; Cat-man; An invisibility cloak. The camera pans left to a student writing on lined paper with a pencil.]
Matt (voice): I have seen improvements in their writing so far, both because they've practised more and are more keen on it, but also they've had that kind of scaffolding to help them to learn to do that in a structured way.
[Piece of paper with title Story planner at the top is in frame].
Adult (voice): So let's say we have as a character, we have dolphins rising up against humanity. [Card with text Dolphins rising up against humanity is placed on the paper].
[Matt handing out the Story planner sheets to two students seated at desks].
Adult (voice): Having these resources on the website, you've pretty much got a lesson there.
Text on screen: Joe Ready - Teacher - Houghton Valley School.
[Joe speaking to the camera].
Joe: And it allows me to focus on my core role as a teacher in the classroom.
[Scene of students handling game cards shifts to a student with long blonde hair speaking].
Blonde hair student: You miss the bus and you gotta get to school and the sheep is your only option.
[Scene of students sitting at desks working on writing in books changes to Joe speaking to the camera].
Joe (voice): I actually really look forward to reading and seeing some of the ideas that have come out.
[Students gathered around desks].
Student: One day after school.
[Will speaking to camera].
Will: I can't speak highly enough of the program.
[Students gathered around desks - some are standing, and some are seated with game cards. A student with braided hair is reading from their card].
Student with braid: Christmas at a stranger's house. [Students standing around chuckle].
Student: The Game of Awesome, it's really cool. There's like a billion ways to play it.
[Scene of students sitting around a table in the school library playing the game shifts to a student speaking to the camera].
[Student with blue shirts slams down a card on the table] Student: Sausage rolls!
[Student in blue shirt speaking to the camera].
Student in blue shirt: It's awesome to do fun stuff in a game.
Joe: Very simply, you know, writing is fun by using Game of Awesome cards.
[Student with curly hair seated at a desk is holding cards, while others stand behind].
Curly hair student: Destruction is magnetic underpants. [Slams card on desk. Students standing behind laugh].
[Scenes of students working on writing shifts to Traci speaking to camera].
Traci: Get a couple of kits, give it to your most enthusiastic teachers, and before long... The rest of the staff are going to be asking for them. [Traci nods and smiles].
[Scene of students sitting at desks holding cards while others stand behind them].
Student: Dolphins are my mentor because they help me to be evil.
[Will speaking to the camera].
Will: It is a game and it's fun. It's great.
[Scene of students laughing changes to student speaking to the camera].
Student: It's a pretty good name for the game. Because the game IS awesome.
[Students clapping and cheering].
[Hands on a box of Game of Awesome].
Narrator: To get your hands on The Game of Awesome, head to awesome. tki. org. nz
[Four students in school uniform sitting at a table holding game cards. There is a flash and they are now wearing hats - a pirate hat, a grey judge's wig, a wizard hat and one is holding a gorilla mask].
Text on screen: awesome.tki.org.nz
Students in unison: Awesome!
Narrator (fast): Judge's wig, hats and gorilla mask not included.