Agenda - Friday March 19

Today is a fairly short day. Here's what you need to get done (by lunch):

1) Review the slideshow. Discuss any changes that need to be made.
2) Write your final post. Draft must be completed by 10:45.
3) Vote on final posts.
4) Review slideshow again. Prepare for assembly.

Thursday - March 18th - Agenda

• Today is a final day to promote the blog!!


• The slide show needs to be prepped as well.


• The follow on-campus Winterims should be visited one last time for an update: Quilting, Yoga (they are off-campus today - can we text someone in the group?), Chess (they might be sending us a photo from Boston on Wed. and today is their tournament.), Digital Photo - can we get some actual photos from them?, Martial Arts & Iron Chef - should we visit them one more time?
• Other Winterims that need posts: Headstart interviews; Total Mnt. Experience (they sent us a photo!!)

Wednesday - March 17th - Agenda

We are traveling to the Jitter Bean Internet Cafe in Marlborough, NH. We plan to work for a couple of hours and eat some lunch while there.

Things to do today:

• Log in as LATechie and view Picasa photos for EACH of your assigned Winterims
• Click on photos you want in the slide show, choose "copy to album" from Edit drop down menu; choose "Animoto Slide Show" album to copy photo into
• Find open source music for the slide show that will be embedded on the blog.
• Discuss which music/song(s) to use for the assembly slide show.
• PROMOTE the BLOG or a POST you have written or will write today!!!

Your posting focus for today is:

• Create a post for a group that does not yet have a post (i.e. France)
• Create or prepare an "update" post on Winterims that have yet to have one (Headstart, Yoga, The System, Digital Photo, Belize, Peru, Mnt. Exp., Casa Cayuco, ARC?, Sports Journalism, Martial Arts)
• Create a post for any other Winterim we received information from overnight.

If you run out of things to do please visit either of these sites and watch some or all of these videos.

PBS Special: Digital Nation - Live on the Virtual Frontier

Disconnected (link to video in Hulu or watch it below)

Tuesday - March 16th Agenda

A look ahead:

Today and part of Thursday will be the last days to work on posts or grab photos of any on-campus or local groups. We will need to leave time Thursday afternoon and Friday morning to post final articles of groups who send us items or to post final close articles for the blog. We will also spend time Thursday building the slide show for Friday's assembly.

For today:

• Continue to produce posts for groups on campus -check white board for specifics (Eric you need to meet with Talking Hands today at 11:15 for a photo or video - they will run through part of their performance they plan to do Friday.)
• Follow-up on off-campus groups - do research and begin crafting a post for those groups will have yet to hear from or we will not hear from.
• Promote at least ONE article you posted today or another day.
• Choose song(s) for the slide show - music for assmbly can be copyrighted, music for website slide show must be a creative commons song(s)
• Plan for tomorrow's work off-campus at an internet cafe; view menu for lunch choices

Monday - 3/15 Agenda

Today we need to take some time to do several things, catch up on stories that have yet to be published, and review what we have already done. Today plan to be busy - if you run out of work, you can help someone else with theirs since we are a team, it is important the the news is published in a timely fashion. We hope to get back out into the field at least one more time this week as well.

Morning:

• Publish stories which you started last week - finish editing videos or slide shows and then post the story - old news is not good news! (Check with Mrs. Poulin, she may have done a few over the weekend in order to move us forward this week.)


• Complete new stories on a few Winterims which sent us information over the weekend (Yellowstone, Educador, Biking, others). If you have both old and new stories to publish we will split up the work so by the end of the morning all old and new stories are done.

Afternoon (or if you when you finish morning tasks):

• Content Check: Go through the LA Winterim blog to check all stories posted about your assignmed Winterims; Ms. Ruby will track which ones have been blogged about on the Winterim Project List; you will check for errors and make sure the tags are accurate for each post


• GMap: Finish the GMap posts for each of your Winterims - if yours are done, help finish the other entries of those students who can not get to this task


• Metrics: Check Google Analytics and set a goal for the end of the week


• Promote: Each student promotes one story or the blog itself via Facebook, Twitter, personal e-mail, LA Student news or etc.


• Blog Design: Check LATechie's bookmarks on Delicious for sites which will provide us widgets on the blog.

Friday - March 12 - Agenda

Today we'll spend the morning out in the field getting photos, video, and interviews from near-campus groups. When you get back, edit/produce your post and publish. In the afternoon, we'll have a little time to edit, then we're going to judge the Iron Chef competition. When we get back, finish up your editing/publishing, then promote!

Thursday - March 11 - Agenda

Today will spend the entire day in Boston. You will have time to work and time to "play." While "working" make sure to complete the following:

• GMap descriptions and upload of group photo for EACH of your assigned Winterim Projects


• Learn more about your assigned Winterim Projects by checking the itinerary, the internet, or contacting someone on those trips via cell phone or the internet


• Write a blog about 2 or more of your assigned Winterim Projects


• Complete your social media daily jobs

We will being working at Tech Superpowers Digital Lounge. Eating at Fire & Ice and hanging out at the Museum of Science and Fanueil Hall Marketplace/Quincy Market. Our final stop will be Shear Madness; we will meet the LA buses and the other students for an 8pm show.

Wednesday - 3/10 Agenda

As of right now your Facebook Fan page was at 90 fans! From 6 to 90 in 24 hours! Let's see if we can add that many more followers to the Blog or Twitter. Challenge: add widget to the LA Winterim Blog which tracks how many visitors we get and/or where they are from. (Not everyone who is visiting the blog or reading it is choosing to become a follower. A widget like this will help you track the traffic to the blog.)

Today's Agenda:

• Workshop with Mr. Hans Mundahl from New Hampton School, New Hampton, NH. "Pitch, Produce, Promote"
• You are still responsible for your "Daily Social Media Assignment." You may have to do this on your own time over lunch/breaks or towards the end of our day.

PLEASE no lap tops while Mr. Mundahl is actually talking with you or asking you to engage in an activity. Although, you will NEED your lap top for the work you will do today, I'm asking that we be RESPECTFUL with the use of technology while someone is presenting and close your lap tops. (Mr. Brescia was appreciative of your attention, however he reported later it was difficult for him to gage if you were following or gaining anything from the workshop since all of you had lap tops open and were often "working" or typing on them.) Check out this article which Ms. Ruby found last night regarding lap tops at certain colleges.

Thursday Morning - 6:45 a.m. in front of Schoolhouse

Social Media Revolution

After viewing this video respond to the following by posting a comment to this blog article.

• Discuss whether Social Media a revolution or fad?

Tuesday - March 9 Agenda

We are off to a pretty good start with no major "technology" mishaps or internet shut downs. There may be a few more sites you'll need to register with or at least access through the LATechie account as we go on. Here is a basic agenda for today:

• Think Before You Shoot with Mr. Andrew Brescia
• Social Media Revolution - see next post with video upload and post a comment
• Facebook and Twitter - using both to promote the LA Winterim Blog
• GMap - start working to place each Winterim on the Map, include a description (we need to figure out how to add the photo using html or xml code)
• Complete your "Daily Social Media" job
• Make a comment to this post reflecting upon your day and what you learned or accomplished

The News Business: Out of Print and Online . . .

Check out this article from 2008 about newspapers possibly going out of business:

The News Business: Out of Print: newyorker.com

Here is an article embedded in this post about some "dead" newspapers trying to revive their business online.

Post a comment on this video.

• What are your thoughts about how digital text is/has changing/ed the world?
• What does Michael Wesch mean when he says "we'll need to rethink ourselves at the end of the video?

Monday March 8 - Agenda

We will do a lot of set up "stuff" today as well as take a few more group photos. We need to stay organized and be on time to get through all of this today.

A. Group Photos of on campus groups (first part of morning)

B. Social Media - Introduction - watch "The Machine is Us/ing Us" (Visit the wiki or look for another blog post to view this video. Answer the questions in a comment on the blog post.)

C. Google - create an account, add products (iGoogle, Docs, Reader, Blogger), make sure you can view all items that have been "shared" with you on Google from LAtechie. (Visit the wiki to watch videos about these and other sites.)

D. Social Bookmarking - watch a Common Craft Video, set up an account, add LAtechie to your networks

E. Blogger - become an author and follower for LA Winterim blog, learn how to create a post, and become a follower of this blog (RUaDgtalNativ)

1/12, Tuesday, Winterim Meeting

Tasks:

1. Collect signed letters regarding use of internet

2. Name and set up the Blog

3. Assign groups to students


4. During the week, visit our blog and post a comment about our first meeting or your thoughts going to into the Winterim.