Toward the end of the last school year, middle school performing arts teacher Monica Colletti’s grade 7-8 students worked with the SAAS Marina School in Moscow to create video projects in which they performed one-minute monologues. The students were asked to interview someone they knew about their family life growing up. Using the information gleaned from the interview, each student then recorded a one-minute video monologue, mimicking the interviewee as accurately as possible. Videos from both schools were later edited to make one longer video that was submitted to a local school video competition.