Greetings one and all,
Today you will need to accomplish two things:
A) Wrap up any unfinished busniess from the past two weeks. This includes senior interviews, advice from each of you to the incoming freshman class, your first May broadcasts, and of course, all group discussion postings, including the latest one on your "final words"
B) Speaking of which, I am also expecting -- as a new assignment for today-- a rough draft mp3 audio file from each of you, based on the "final words" assignment mentioned above. It must be at least five minutes long, school appropriate as always, and it must be a solo act; that means NO ONE else is to play any part in it. Additionally, if you never got around to posting your "final words" or did not take it seriously, you might want to actually get that done now.
That should be enough for one morning, I should think.
Cheers,
Mr. L
Monday, May 25, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wednesday May 20: finishing up senior interviews/online file streaming/any last words?
Greetings, fellow noise makers!
Here's how our schedule breaks down -- literally-- over the next several days:
A) get me your senior interviews and make sure that I have your May shows based on these interviews
B) Make sure that I have the previous show you had done at the beginning of May
C) Discuss amongst yourselves as a team, and come to some kind of consensus as to what you believe to be the very best show you have ever done. Please post to our discussion group a brief paragraph as to which one you decided on, when it was created, what it was about, and maybe some sort of reason WHY you chose this particular one
D) the previous effort was a GROUP project; this final one is an individual project. I need each of you to post as a discussion a rough draft of what sort of statement you would want to make if the entire world had to listen to you AND it was the last time you were ever going to be allowed to speak
Cheers,
Mr. L
Here's how our schedule breaks down -- literally-- over the next several days:
- Well, you do have this class today, AND you're all here
- tomorrow you are not here at all
- Friday is a half day, and pardon me if I believe
that some of you won't be showing up at all that day either - we have next Monday off
- two days later the seniors are GONE
- two days more and we're in JUNE
So for the purposes of getting set up for the final stage of this class, we don't have a lot of time
So today, you will need to do four things:A) get me your senior interviews and make sure that I have your May shows based on these interviews
B) Make sure that I have the previous show you had done at the beginning of May
C) Discuss amongst yourselves as a team, and come to some kind of consensus as to what you believe to be the very best show you have ever done. Please post to our discussion group a brief paragraph as to which one you decided on, when it was created, what it was about, and maybe some sort of reason WHY you chose this particular one
D) the previous effort was a GROUP project; this final one is an individual project. I need each of you to post as a discussion a rough draft of what sort of statement you would want to make if the entire world had to listen to you AND it was the last time you were ever going to be allowed to speak
Cheers,
Mr. L
Friday, May 15, 2009
Monday May 18: New Rules, Same Class
Greetings, one and all: Before I begin, I would like to take the time to make some observations about how this class is going to need to be modified if it and its twin during Period 2 are going to continue to function properly:
1) Each time is going to be granted 15 minutes at a time in the radio production room next door.When your time is up, you need to rotate out so that other teams can get some work done
2) We all need to be doing a LOT more to keep the production rooms clean and orderly. Whatever you may or may not be doing at home in your own room, you need to understand that this production room is a privilege,not a right. (Matter of fact, I've never anything like it in all the time I've been teaching)
3) When you are not next door recording, you need to be in here either working on adding to that recording, or working on some other assignments which I will be providing you (more on that in a minute)
4) At all times, you will conduct yourselves in such a way that you will never be thought of by anyone else in this building as anything less than exemplary
5) Part of what this means is that I am not only repeating, for at least the fifth or sixth time that NO BALLOONS are allowed anywhere near our facilities,you also may not bring food and drink in there, and you must keep the production room clean at all times.
6) Additionally, the door must be kept locked and closed at all times.
OK,now here is what you are going to need to do while you are NOT in the radio production room today:
Each of you will do a search online for "history of online broadcasting"
Each of you will record the address of at least eight distinct websites that could provide some useful information on this topic
You will record these addresses,along with a one paragraph summation of at least three of the websites you discovered in a post on our Google discussion group
You cannot simply DUPLICATE the addresses of another member of this class.
Do your OWN work please!
Now for the other, "radio production" part of today's class:
Here are the two possible things your teams need to be doing: A) capture a senior, and bring that "about to make an escape" 12th grader back here for an interview, OR
B) start gearing up for another more standard type of broadcast, taking all the usual steps.
One way or the other, you've got a regular block of time to get SOMETHING done. So let's get started!
Cheers,
Mr. L
1) Each time is going to be granted 15 minutes at a time in the radio production room next door.When your time is up, you need to rotate out so that other teams can get some work done
2) We all need to be doing a LOT more to keep the production rooms clean and orderly. Whatever you may or may not be doing at home in your own room, you need to understand that this production room is a privilege,not a right. (Matter of fact, I've never anything like it in all the time I've been teaching)
3) When you are not next door recording, you need to be in here either working on adding to that recording, or working on some other assignments which I will be providing you (more on that in a minute)
4) At all times, you will conduct yourselves in such a way that you will never be thought of by anyone else in this building as anything less than exemplary
5) Part of what this means is that I am not only repeating, for at least the fifth or sixth time that NO BALLOONS are allowed anywhere near our facilities,you also may not bring food and drink in there, and you must keep the production room clean at all times.
6) Additionally, the door must be kept locked and closed at all times.
OK,now here is what you are going to need to do while you are NOT in the radio production room today:
Each of you will do a search online for "history of online broadcasting"
Each of you will record the address of at least eight distinct websites that could provide some useful information on this topic
You will record these addresses,along with a one paragraph summation of at least three of the websites you discovered in a post on our Google discussion group
You cannot simply DUPLICATE the addresses of another member of this class.
Do your OWN work please!
Now for the other, "radio production" part of today's class:
Here are the two possible things your teams need to be doing: A) capture a senior, and bring that "about to make an escape" 12th grader back here for an interview, OR
B) start gearing up for another more standard type of broadcast, taking all the usual steps.
One way or the other, you've got a regular block of time to get SOMETHING done. So let's get started!
Cheers,
Mr. L
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Thursday May 14: one way or the other!
Greetings, one and all:
Here are the two possible things your teams need to be doing:
A) capture a senior, and bring that "about to make an escape" 12th grader back here for an interview, OR
B) start gearing up for another more standard type of broadcast, taking all the usual steps
one way or the other, you've got a lunch block to get SOMETHING done. So let's get started!
Cheers,
Mr. L
Here are the two possible things your teams need to be doing:
A) capture a senior, and bring that "about to make an escape" 12th grader back here for an interview, OR
B) start gearing up for another more standard type of broadcast, taking all the usual steps
one way or the other, you've got a lunch block to get SOMETHING done. So let's get started!
Cheers,
Mr. L
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Wed May 13: let the senior interviews begin!
greetings once again traffik dodgerz!
Since you have revamped your "question lists", and seem confident that they will make a good interview, I say it is high time we began the actual interview process. as part of that process, I have made the rounds of several different staff members who can help us:
Mr. Bishop down in guidance, who is head of senior projects
Mr. Kammer down in C205, who is actually cooordinating the senior project students
Ms.Rainey who is a senior class adviser who teaches ceramics down in C202
I also tried to track down the other senior class adviser,Ms. Welch, but I was unsuccessful inthis attempt. I know that she is setup near the weight room downstairs though.
The point is, if you CANNOT get the senior you wish to interview this period, we have access to others. All three of the above mentioned staff members assured me that we could send you guys down to "collect" some seniors to be interviewed. And so you shall do; the more actual interviews we conduct, the more likely we are to get some really good audio footage.
If you CAN get the senior you were hoping to interview, that will also be great. The more the merrier!
OK, lets do it, lets get it done!
Mr. L
PS As I mentioned, balloons in the Radio room is a big no no. If you find them, bring them in here so I can get rid of them, ASAP
Since you have revamped your "question lists", and seem confident that they will make a good interview, I say it is high time we began the actual interview process. as part of that process, I have made the rounds of several different staff members who can help us:
Mr. Bishop down in guidance, who is head of senior projects
Mr. Kammer down in C205, who is actually cooordinating the senior project students
Ms.Rainey who is a senior class adviser who teaches ceramics down in C202
I also tried to track down the other senior class adviser,Ms. Welch, but I was unsuccessful inthis attempt. I know that she is setup near the weight room downstairs though.
The point is, if you CANNOT get the senior you wish to interview this period, we have access to others. All three of the above mentioned staff members assured me that we could send you guys down to "collect" some seniors to be interviewed. And so you shall do; the more actual interviews we conduct, the more likely we are to get some really good audio footage.
If you CAN get the senior you were hoping to interview, that will also be great. The more the merrier!
OK, lets do it, lets get it done!
Mr. L
PS As I mentioned, balloons in the Radio room is a big no no. If you find them, bring them in here so I can get rid of them, ASAP
Monday, May 11, 2009
some advice to you, some advice from you
Greetings,tRAFFIC dODGERS!
Today,you will be tasked with doing two things:
A)I have asked each of you -- by email-- to do a re-write of your questions,to make them more specific and more likely to produce a longer and more interesting answer.I have also instructed you on how to condense some of your already existing questions into one question,since they dealt with similiar subjects
If for some reason you did not get an email from me its either because you were not here last Friday and therefore couldn't do the assignment, or you were here and chose not to do it. Either way, get it done now please.
B) While you are waiting to get hold of some seniors,you will --by teams-- record a short broadcast which runs in length an average of five minutes per team member. The purpose of this broadcast is for each of you to provide some useful advice to the incoming freshman class. Please ensure that everything you do today is school appropriate
Cheers,
Mr.L
Today,you will be tasked with doing two things:
A)I have asked each of you -- by email-- to do a re-write of your questions,to make them more specific and more likely to produce a longer and more interesting answer.I have also instructed you on how to condense some of your already existing questions into one question,since they dealt with similiar subjects
If for some reason you did not get an email from me its either because you were not here last Friday and therefore couldn't do the assignment, or you were here and chose not to do it. Either way, get it done now please.
B) While you are waiting to get hold of some seniors,you will --by teams-- record a short broadcast which runs in length an average of five minutes per team member. The purpose of this broadcast is for each of you to provide some useful advice to the incoming freshman class. Please ensure that everything you do today is school appropriate
Cheers,
Mr.L
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Friday May 8: in our end is our beginning!
Greetings gentlemen, and pardon the delay,
Today you will need to do two things:
A) Make absolutely certain that the radio show I have from each of you is the one you want to be graded on.
B) We also need to begin with the first part of our next assignment. What I would like to see us do is to get a group of seniors -- who are in their last weeks here-- into our production rooms to get some final thoughts from them before they amscray outta here. As such, what I would like EACH of you to do is this:
Ok, that'll do. Get to it!
Cheers, Mr. L
Today you will need to do two things:
A) Make absolutely certain that the radio show I have from each of you is the one you want to be graded on.
B) We also need to begin with the first part of our next assignment. What I would like to see us do is to get a group of seniors -- who are in their last weeks here-- into our production rooms to get some final thoughts from them before they amscray outta here. As such, what I would like EACH of you to do is this:
come up with a series of at least eight questions to ask them
make sure the questions cover a wide range of possible topics, such as any advice they might have for underclassmen or incoming freshmen, good times they can recall, favorite classes, opinions about the lunch menu...anything really
try to make the questions as open ended as possible.Don't try to force people to say what you think they "should" say
naturally, make sure your questions are school appropriate
DO NOT DUPLICATE EACH OTHER. Fer cryin' out loud, I don't want 20 seniors getting asked the same boring lifeless questions over and over
Try to frame your questions in such a way that the answers you get are longer than a sentence, especially a one or two word sentence. Don't go hunting for "yes" or "no"
Ok, that'll do. Get to it!
Cheers, Mr. L
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