EXHIBITION NIGHT PREVIEW

EXHIBITION NIGHT PREVIEW
As of March 14, 2008

9^th grade:
OVERVIEW:

No significant progress has been made in the 9th grade Lens of the Living project overall since last exhibition night. Most of the time and resources of the 9^th grade have been dedicated to the business plan projects that were started this fall.

I was given a list of five students from Mothuri Brian who have submitted good essays to him. However, when I checked the students’ blogs, most of them did not have their content posted online.

One student, Cynthia King, did have her full essay on her blog:

htt p://www.amazing93.blogspot.com/

she is still in the “fact gathering” stage, and the outline and essay both lack a clear focus. But she does seem to have done some research. I get the feeling that there may not be many students who have any more work done than she does for this project.

RECOMMENDATION:

I would recommend that we consider showing some of the 9^th grade business projects on the 26^th that Mothura Megan has worked on with them. Clearly this is where their time and energy has been going. Additionally, the advisors need to be held accountable for why their groups are not producing on the year long project, and the team should be responsible for coming up with some stiff ultimatums for themselves to get back on track.

10^th grade:
OVERVIEW:

Isis’s class has done very good work under the supervision of Mothuri James regarding the voice activated car project. They have continued with their plan of conducting more in-depth research regarding technology that could make the voice activated car a possibility.

The group has built a robot car and has learned about various parts of the physical machinery/circuitry, how the car works, how to program the car using a laptop, and things of that nature. Some of their work has been video taped by Mothuri Pascal.

Ms. Cook’s class has done some work toward business plans and copyright/patent laws that apply to their invention, the EZ Hair Braider. However, their essay work is not complete yet.

One student is close to being finished with her essay:, Kaisha (sp?) , and Ms. Cook believes she would be in the position to present on Wednesday . The main thing Kaisha would need to do is to perform a slide show with a narrative of the research she has done thus far. This would have to be completed on Monday.

I asked Mothuri Angola if he had seen any essays of merit coming out of the 10^th grade. He is not sure yet, as he has not finished grading them. He has my number and I asked him to call me on the break when he is finished grading.

Mothur Kyana has been struggling with the content for her subject. We need an intervention ASAP to help transition that class into a doable project given their current level of academic preparation and support.

RECOMMENDATION:

I would recommend that we show Isis’s class project (really Mothuri James’ work) regarding the robot. We need to get Kyana’s group some emergency assistance ASAP, and we need to hear from Angola about the other student essay work. The 10^th grade as a whole needs some research assistance from some industry people and/or scientists to help drive their research and divide the work into manageable small tasks.

11^th grade:
OVERVIEW:

The 11^th grade has done further work on their PSAs , and from what I am hearing, the PSAs are better now than they were last month, when the entire class was instructed to re-do them due to an overall poor performance on the part of the class. I have only seen a few of the new PSAs.

To state the obvious, I am most interested in the essays at this point….the content. I have asked Mothura Shakae to get a list of the top essays in 11^th grade and she is compiling that for me today.

RECOMMENDATION:

Now that we have an internet TV station ready to go, I would suggest us putting together a 20 minute program with some news and the student PSAs interjected between them as “commercials”. The main content would be something else that students have produced…. We have to look around but we should be able to pull some content …..EVEN IF the main program is the 10^th grade project featuring the robot car.

To make myself clear, here is what I am proposing:

We produce a T.V. program about the robot car. The TV program is like a show that features “the making of” a robot controlled car (within the context of the Mind to Money project and the Voice Activated car respectively). We divide the program into parts and use the 11^th grade PSAs as “commercials” in between the content.

Then we present the entire “show” at exhibition night, and all of the students who are “presenting” can come up to the stage after the show is over and explain their portion. Since we have a 5 paragraph essay requirement, every presenter must bring a hard copy of their essay with them to Exhibition Night to refer to, and these essays must obviously also be posted on their blogs.

This would be a new concept and something we’ve never done before, but it would be a step closer to actual real world Television, and it would be a creative way to present our content.

12^th grade:
OVERVIEW:

Mothura Shoana has done a lot of work with the seniors and has three main products:

1. Photoshop work demonstrating graphic design skills they have gained through her training that she would like to have them show in the form of a slide show.
2. News Video clips of students broadcasting from a live studio (actually covers 10^th and 11^th grade, not 12th)
3. Web pages students have built as a part of their senior portfolio.

RECOMMENDATION:

Shoana does good work and this content can be shown as-is. Seniors need to come prepared to explain what their work is.

Also, we should have a section of exhibition night where some of the seniors who have been accepted to college (I think it’s over half of them so far who have been accepted) can come up and talk about their post-secondary plans, goals, and aspirations.

OVERALL NOTES:

1. We need to have a school wide talk about STANDARDS ALIGNMENT and be more conspicuous and deliberate about BOTH advisors and students KNOWING the standards and aliging all of their current and future work this year based on the standards.
2. We are planning on using Exhibition Night to officially launch our internet TV Station. Whatever we prepare for Exhibition Night can be then broadcast continually from that night on. We will be handing out the address to the station at Exhibition Night, which will simply be a new page on the New MediaWebsite: http://www.newmediatech.net/flashSite/newmediatv.php

-Nmuta Jones

Video Test

 testing 

Notes meeting with Jerry Ford

Tricaster Pro:

keying out colors: ample lighting is critical and space from wall
wall colors are diffferent according to temperature.

Can be used with projector. You can do a presentation , and loop that video right into the projection.

Picture Playlist.....
overlay: allows you to put "bug" (overlay)

when using multiple inputs, all should be same...color temperature, etc.

gen lock first source: input known correct source.
Do same with other three cameras, etc.

Record and Stream: unit does four things when streaming:
encoding: encodes to mpeg4

pull vs. push:
use Push for a higher concentration of audience.
pull: client pulls from machine.
If a lot of people need to get your stuff, then use push.

Push can be a waste or resources.
Use Pull whenever necessary.

for internet broadcasting: 320X240 down to 160 x

For NMTCS, a good speed would be:
29.9 at 320 X 240 , 323 Kpbs

Jerry has server we can use: with own dedicated ip that we can use.

addrees:8080/folder/encoder/folder/filename

while streaming you can also write that stream to disk.
save to archive.
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to set up a broadcast:
1. Live Production or Capture Media
in live production: go to vcr and picture
-- add footage.

pull in footage.
add..they show up on playlist.

and from there...put things in whatever order you want.

vcr playlist for video or picture playlist for pictures.

add effects between them.

in order to get to computer, go to admin ...turns software off and you can access computer.

VIDEO DELETE: MUST DELETE FILES FROM 'VIDEO DELETE' FUNCTION.

http://216.135.219.188:8080/encoder/stream.asf

will be the url
url:port/encoder/filename

PROJECT PROGRESSION TABLE

PROJECT PROGRESSION TABLE

YOU ARE AT STAGE 1 IF: YOUR PROJECT BLOG HAS AN OUTLINE AND IT’S ATTACHED TO YOUR NEW MEDIA ACCOUNT. Q: What is my outline based on ? A: Your outline should be based on a DRIVING QUESTION that your group has written or developed based on the overall essential question for your project. For example: If your essential question is “How do ideas become products?” , and you are in the design group, your driving question for your outline will be “How do ideas become products from a DESIGN perspective?” If you are in the marketing group, your driving question will be “How do ideas become products from a MARKETING perspective?”

YOU ARE AT STAGE 2 IF: YOUR PROJECT BLOG HAS A 5 PARAGRAPH ESSAY BASED ON YOUR OUTLINE.

YOU ARE AT STAGE 3 IF: YOUR PROJECT BLOG HAS SOME SORT OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BASED ON YOUR 5 PARAGRAPH ESSAY.

Please speak with your advisor about when you are expected to have completed each stage of this process.

New website milestone: Social networks are ready

The very first stage of social networking infrastructure is ready now on the website.

Users can "add" people to their network on the New Media website now. Once logged in, you can choose who is network. once someone is in your network, you can then go to your profile page and click on "view my network" and there you can see a preview window of the primary blog for each member in your network.

This allows an advisor, for example, to ADD all of the students in his/her advisory to his network. It also allows students to ADD collegues, friends, and project partners to their network. We are building social networks based on the same principles and ideas as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and other social networking sites our students already use.

Then, on one page he/she can preview EVERYONE'S blog at a glance and see who is up to date with their project/assignments/presentations/ etc. that should be present in the blog.

Notes -- meeting with Mothura Kah.

9TH GRADE, along with M. Kah. have put together a great detailed , day by day outline of everything until March 14th, which is our deadline for the multimedia presentation.

Today I will meet with 10th grade and show them what was done, and ask them to get the same thing completed by the end of tomorrow.

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Grade wide book assignments:

9th grade: "The Color of Water".

10th grade: "

11th grade: "

12th grade: students would read same book Freedom School Students are reading.
and take them to Howard for a Day and meet with Dr. Greg Carr, since he is already going over the Freedom School book assignment.

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Shakae will be asked to write letter up for parents about the book assignment, cost of book, etc. deadline, etc. We may offer book for slight discount to students.

--Nmuta will put up 9th grade project schedule for the next two weeks on website, as long as book assignment on website: "One school, one book".

--Nmuta will speak with English teachers about supplemental photocopies from highly effective writing book: what to distribute, what has already been distributed, etc.