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