Lower Canada College’s grade 8 class wasted no time hitting the academic stream with vigour. On the first full day of classes, students were participating in community service trips and researching environmental issues. All of this hands-on experience will serve as the foundation for the production of public service ads on Friday, using numerous production tools in the i-Life Suite that is installed on their MacBook computers.

A particular emphasis this year is being placed upon ensuring that student work is publishable on-line, providing them with an authentic audience. To that end, the school is highlighting the importance of producing work that includes creative commons media licensed media or original content generated by the students. LCC has also established partnerships with companies such as www.libertymusictrax.com, who are supplying students with licensed music for their presentations that can then be freely published on our portal. — Chris Auclair, Teacher