{"id":507,"date":"2009-03-14T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=507"},"modified":"2010-08-05T18:33:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:33:27","slug":"st-patricks-day-video-feature-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/st-patricks-day-video-feature-of-the-week","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Video Feature of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-512\" title=\"St. Patrick from Give Up Yer Aul Sins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-22-150x150.png\" alt=\"St. Patrick\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Patrick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, this week&#8217;s video is a retelling of St. Patrick&#8217;s life from the adorable series <em>Give Up Yer Aul Sins<\/em>. Cathal Gaffney directed this short which takes recordings of school children telling Bible and saint stories and animates them in a documentary style.  This one of the cutest films I&#8217;ve ever seen, and rightly deserved the Oscar nomination it received.<\/p>\n<p>You might consider recording your own students telling stories of the saints and then setting their narrations to pictures using iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or some other video editing software.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k0q-_gWOYjY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, this week&#8217;s video is a retelling of St. Patrick&#8217;s life from the adorable series Give Up Yer Aul Sins. Cathal Gaffney directed this short which takes recordings of school children telling Bible and saint stories and animates them in a documentary style. This one of the cutest films I&#8217;ve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/st-patricks-day-video-feature-of-the-week\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Video Feature of the Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[65,159,26],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catechesis","tag-saints","tag-technology","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-8b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1379,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/making-the-saints-come-alive-in-your-classroom","url_meta":{"origin":507,"position":0},"title":"Making the Saints Come Alive in Your Classroom","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"November 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Every November, Catholic teachers look for creative ways to get their students to appreciate and understand the lives of the saints. 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