Gentlemen, you have your marching orders from yesterday. Keep marching!
Cheers,
Mr. L
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Monday April 27th: a new assignment for May
Greetings, one and all!
Today, each of your teams will begin a new assignment: to create a radio show that
A) meets the same minimum requirements as before:
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long
2) it must have a theme song not more than one minute in length
3) it must include audible input from all team members
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects sounds in at least two points in the broadcast
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate"
B) Connects a topic you have done already to a topic unlike any other you have done previously
C) Discusses how technology that has only come out in say the last two years has affected the two topics from point B
For example, some of you have done broadcasts that have been generally related to the overall topic of sports. Once you connect it to some other topic -- for example, betting on sports is as old as sports itself -- you would then discuss how technology has affected both of them.
You will need to discuss at least one affect that very recent technology has had, and give atn least several different examples.
OK, get your brains a-stormin', and get something set up on our Google discussion group
Mr. L
Today, each of your teams will begin a new assignment: to create a radio show that
A) meets the same minimum requirements as before:
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long
2) it must have a theme song not more than one minute in length
3) it must include audible input from all team members
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects sounds in at least two points in the broadcast
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate"
B) Connects a topic you have done already to a topic unlike any other you have done previously
C) Discusses how technology that has only come out in say the last two years has affected the two topics from point B
For example, some of you have done broadcasts that have been generally related to the overall topic of sports. Once you connect it to some other topic -- for example, betting on sports is as old as sports itself -- you would then discuss how technology has affected both of them.
You will need to discuss at least one affect that very recent technology has had, and give atn least several different examples.
OK, get your brains a-stormin', and get something set up on our Google discussion group
Mr. L
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wed April 15th: Finish what you started yesterday
Greetings, prestigious ones,
As you may have guessed, I am not in today. I want you to please continue working on your latest broadcasts so that tomorrow, I can review them, and --hopefully, start putting them up. If and when you are finished with your first April broadcast, please upload them to Box.net, and then shoot me an email stating that you have done so -- please include the actual file name, so I know what I'm looking for.
Mr. L
As you may have guessed, I am not in today. I want you to please continue working on your latest broadcasts so that tomorrow, I can review them, and --hopefully, start putting them up. If and when you are finished with your first April broadcast, please upload them to Box.net, and then shoot me an email stating that you have done so -- please include the actual file name, so I know what I'm looking for.
Mr. L
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Tuesday April 14th: three days left!
Greetings, Prestigious ones:
OK, the posting pretty much says it all: this is our last week before vacation, and you have thre class days before our last day. I don't count the last day, because
A) that is the day I absolutely MUST get all your shows up online and
B) let's get real: it's pretty hard to motivate ANY student to get much done the day before a vacation. Even students as dedicated as yourself.
So, it being the last week, I feel I ought to re-iterate the MINIMUM requirements for this particular broadcast:
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long
2) it must have a brand new theme song, not more than one minute in length
3) it must include audible input from all team members
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects sounds in at least two points in the broadcast
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate"
OK, that's it. Let's get going! and make sure when you upload your files to Box.net that you email me and tell me what the file name is called
Cheers,
Mr. L
OK, the posting pretty much says it all: this is our last week before vacation, and you have thre class days before our last day. I don't count the last day, because
A) that is the day I absolutely MUST get all your shows up online and
B) let's get real: it's pretty hard to motivate ANY student to get much done the day before a vacation. Even students as dedicated as yourself.
So, it being the last week, I feel I ought to re-iterate the MINIMUM requirements for this particular broadcast:
0) you must have posted both a topic and a topic outline to our Google group
1) it must be at least twenty minutes long
2) it must have a brand new theme song, not more than one minute in length
3) it must include audible input from all team members
4) it must include either bumper music or special effects sounds in at least two points in the broadcast
5) it must make reference to at least one website that contains information relevant to your stated topic
6) it must be certifiably "school appropriate"
OK, that's it. Let's get going! and make sure when you upload your files to Box.net that you email me and tell me what the file name is called
Cheers,
Mr. L
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Wednesday, April 8: a new way to get stuff to Mr. LaRue
Greetings, loud and nosiy radio people!
Today, you are going to do two things:
A) continue working towards completing your first April broadcast. Remember, we have only four class days left after today: that should be plenty of time, but its not unlimited. And no, I'm NOT counting the last day before the April vacation in my day count: I'm zany and crazy, but not stupidly optimistic.
(BTW, if we happen to complete all your shows before then, there's nothing that says we couldn't at least get STARTED on the shows we will complete after we get back from the April vacation)
B) As you complete work on your shows, you may notice that many of your files are just simply too darned big to be uploaded to Box.net; nor can you effectively send them by Gmail. What I would like you all to try is uploading them to a shared folder that I have setup for you at divshare.com; here is the address:
http://www.divshare.com/folder/528555-bc1
If this works, and your teams want to have their own folders, I can probably set them up for you without too much trouble. It looks like Divshare allows much bigger file uploads, which will help us all out a lot, I think
Cheers,
Mr. L
Today, you are going to do two things:
A) continue working towards completing your first April broadcast. Remember, we have only four class days left after today: that should be plenty of time, but its not unlimited. And no, I'm NOT counting the last day before the April vacation in my day count: I'm zany and crazy, but not stupidly optimistic.
(BTW, if we happen to complete all your shows before then, there's nothing that says we couldn't at least get STARTED on the shows we will complete after we get back from the April vacation)
B) As you complete work on your shows, you may notice that many of your files are just simply too darned big to be uploaded to Box.net; nor can you effectively send them by Gmail. What I would like you all to try is uploading them to a shared folder that I have setup for you at divshare.com; here is the address:
http://www.divshare.com/folder/528555-bc1
If this works, and your teams want to have their own folders, I can probably set them up for you without too much trouble. It looks like Divshare allows much bigger file uploads, which will help us all out a lot, I think
Cheers,
Mr. L
Monday, April 6, 2009
Tuesday, April 7: OK, so April got off to a slow start....
So let's get past that. Dealing with unepected obstacles is part of life. In any event, you simply need to work towards completing the assignment that we started last week. If you can't remember what that was, just scroll down to the previous post.
OK, gents, you heard the man and you know the drill. Let's do it, let's get it done!
Cheers,
Mr. L
PS, please remember to follow all the guidelines we have used in creating past broadcasts.If you need any technical or non-tech assistance,do not hesitate to ask. And let's remember, we only have five class days left before the Spring break. That's enough time, but not by a huge amount
OK, gents, you heard the man and you know the drill. Let's do it, let's get it done!
Cheers,
Mr. L
PS, please remember to follow all the guidelines we have used in creating past broadcasts.If you need any technical or non-tech assistance,do not hesitate to ask. And let's remember, we only have five class days left before the Spring break. That's enough time, but not by a huge amount
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