Friday, March 18th Agenda

Your final day in RUaDN Winterim!  We have some major items to take care of this morning before we break for lunch.  Lunch is 12-12:45.  Then you need to report to the theater for the assembly which begins at 1:00.

We are part of the assembly today, so you need to be dressed within the dress code today.

1. FINAL FOUR Blog Articles (Partner Feature Article) - must be created & drafted by 10:30; edited and posted by 11:00

• Winterim Overall Blog Post - list it out, write it out REALLY SHOW overall what LA has accomplished in the last two weeks - built a school, create a song/music video, raised money to assist Japan, learned martial arts, hiked the Amazon, kayaked the caribbean, camped out, viewed sporting events, learned about the courts and legal systems and so on and on . . .; need a graphic to represent LA - Spartan, logo, the LA which cross each other or maybe put LA over a graphic of the globe  . . .
• RUaDN Statistics - how many page views, where has blog been viewed, total posts, total comments, how many videos on Youtube, photos in Picasa, tweets, facebook fans, and etc. Compare stats to last year.  Provide links to our acccounts withint the document and use a graph as a graphic (it can show the increase in blog views over the two weeks  or it can be a bar graph of this year compared to last year.)
• Winterim is or feels or ??? - using the Wordle as the graphic provide a final glimpse into Winterim philosophically (not like the first post which talks about the "what" we did); This is more like the "so what" about Winterim.  You may change the Wordle made yesterday. (Mrs. Poulin will share the google doc with all the words on it.)
• Winterim Slide Show -   For the post a 2nd slide show needs to be made using the Animoto music and then exported to YouTube (public). The text in the post should again state a general concept of LA Winterim is - maybe cut and paste this from the "What is Winterim" page.  Also state the site used to make the video,  the song and singer in the slide show(you could explain that it was shown at assembly with a different song, which we don't have permission to use on the internet.).  EMBED the slide show from YouTube into this final blog post.

2. View the Assembly slide show. Mrs. Poulin has uploaded the photos into Animoto; in the morning Sarah will need to add the song. Then it will take time to produce the video.  It will be exported to YoutTube (private) and ready for us to view by 11:00.
3. Plan/Practice Assembly presentation (11:00)

• Mrs. Poulin and Ms. Boncher will introduce the group
• Each pair (from final four articles) will speak main ideas of final post. (one person can speak from the pair)
• Slide show is last item for Assembly

4. Winterim Student Evaluations

5. Final Reflective thoughts posted on this agenda

Thursday, March 17th Agenda

A. Know your Social Media Daily job and work on it thoughout the day.

B. Talk with at least 5-10 different students today - get three words to describe Winterim experience.  Type them into a Google Doc entitled "Words to Describe Winterim" (Mrs. Poulin will create and share this with you.)  We will make a Wordle for one of the last posts of the blog.

C. Major updates today for on-campus projects that were not updated on yesterday. Off-Campus projects need to have at least 2 posts about them by end of today.

D. Promote TWO of your best or most favorite articles you created this Winterim.Promote your article from yesterday about Social Media as well.

E. Photos and more Photos to Slide Show folder!!! Groups with MANY photos can have up to 8 GREAT photos in slide show.  Other groups need between 1-5 GREAT photos.  Off campus groups that we have never heard from will be the only groups with ONE photo.
F. Each student will pitch ONE song for the Assemby slide show - this may be a copyrighted song, but it must be appropriate to play for a general audience.

G. Editor-n-Chief with Mrs. Poulin will choose 2-3 Animoto.com songs for the "online" version of the slide show. The group will vote which one to use.

H.  Finish up Social Media Job

I. Reflection for today


Look ahead for Friday:

Render the slide show for Assembly
Render the slide show for the blog
Partner Feature story - last 4 posts of the blogs - slide show will be the last post
Plan the Assemby presentation - we need stats, lead speakers, slide show is very last thing to be shown at assembly

Wednesday, March 16th Agenda

Boston Trip (For the daily schedule refer to the google doc.)

Morning Session:

A. Know your daily social media job. Begin to do this during the morning session and continue throughout the day if necessary. (This is the multi-tasking part.) (I will check on this at 1:30 during our 2nd work session.)

B. Partner Feature Story - RUaDgtalNativ:Social Media Tools for the 21st Century

• You have 5 min. to Plan two ideas to Pitch regarding a social media tool or concept you have learned about.
• We have 5 min. to Pitch and vote/determine what each partnership is going to focus on.
• You have 50-60 min. to Prepare as a team and Post a draft your blog article.
• As you Plan/Pitch/Prepare keep in mind that the post must:
• Describe what it is
• Articulate how it works
• Explain how it is "social" media
• Discuss why it is useful (What is it's purpose? Can the purpose be different for different people or organizations?)
• Explain how it can be used by students for educational purposes
• Be 12-15 complete sentences - it can be 1 or 2 paragraphs if necessary
• Have a catchy title
• Use the following tags: RUDN, socialmedia
• Include at least 2 links
• Contain at least one form of media to visually represent your topic (photo or video or other graphic of some kind)
• Have Ms. Boncher or Mrs. Poulin edit your article; then Post it to the LA Winterim 11 Blog.
• Promote your article anyway you want to.  Highest views by Friday morning is the winner . . . of what, not sure yet.
• "Re-Blog" (or share) your post to the RUaDgtalNativ? Blog site.(The first partnership to figure our how to do this gets a sweet snack today.) DO NOT cut-n-paste into a new post. (I'll know.) A "re-blog" or share happens while you are reading the original post.

Your done with morning session at this point.  The latest you can leave the Digital Lounge and make it to our lunch reservation is 11:15. The earliest you'll be allowed to leave by Ms. Boncher or Mrs. Poulin is 10:45.

Afternoon Session:

A. Keep this in mind - all projects must have a minimum of 2 blog posts written about them. However most on-campus projects should have 3 or more. (You'll probably want to do a "final" update for most of your on-campus projects, you still have Thursday as well.)  With all this in mind  . . .

• Go to the "edit post" page and look at the tags on the left. Do you see your projects listed?  Check the number of posts. By Thursday at 2:30 all projects need to meet the minimum, however  . . .
• Just because your on-campus projects may already have 2, we expect a final update might be needed. 
• Work on your individual project post or posts for today - good title, links, media, tags!
• DRAFT must be viewed/edited by Ms. Boncher or Mrs. Poulin before it can hit the blog.

B. Final Slide Show Prep

• Log in as LAWinterim (in a different browser or sign out as you.)
• View each of your project's photos in Picasa.
• Choose 1-5 images for the Final Slide Show.
• COPY (do NOT MOVE) them into the "Final Slide Show" Album in Picasa

C. Don't forget to "multi-task" and do your Social Media Job for today. (But  . . . be careful about signing in as LAWinterim.  You want your blog posts to be "signed" by you, not LA Winterim.)

D. Reflection of your work on this agenda.

You are done with the afternoon session at this point. We will leave the libary as a group at 3:15-3:30 (or at least 2 hrs. 15 min. after we arrive).  If you are done, you may roam the library only or use your lap top for personal reasons in the Teen Lounge. Ms. Boncher or Mrs. Poulin determine if you are done.

Tuesday, March 15th Agenda

Today you need to update on-campus AND off-campus groups.  In addition you need to do your job and reflection before 2pm today.

Morning Session:

PROMOTE of your ARTICLES from YESTERDAY

Sean - Andes and Amazon update from e-mail and a comment
Paul - live stream the trial practice;
Cheng - TME article (use the photos they sent) and maybe a visit there; Kayak in Carribean research about their 2nd week
Sabina - Digital Photo update and photos in a slide show
Sarah - update on watermedia and check on fashion
Jordan - Yoga & maybe a visit to the ARC
Mike - Underwater discover - research their 2nd week, work with Paige on GMap
David - AZMnt. Biking update; learn more about clay & Kiln process; Baking Basics visit for more infor/recipe ideas

PROMOTE ARTICLES from TODAY.

Afternoon:
View Contest - By Thursday afternoon - Most views wins a prize
Partner Feature story about social media.

Monday, March 14th Agenda

Morning Session until 11:00 (take a 10 min. break when it makes sense for  you)

1. Feature Article with Parnter [45 min.]

• Pitch and Plan only (includes gathering your media, downloading/uploading it) (keep video short & simple or don't use it all.)

2. Individual work [75 min.]

• Know your job. Check e-mail from Mrs. Poulin (do in classroom and/or at Apple Store)
• Check E-mail for updates from off-campus projects. (If there are any you need to find time to write a post today!)

• David - upload Baking video to YouTube and get it onto previous blog article; check other on-campus group*
• Sarah - upload Max's video to YouTube and get it onto previous blog article; check other on-campus groups*
• Jordan - check on campus groups*, ADD to draft already started by All Creatures group and POST it this morning with a few photos. (see e-mails); have another student choose music for Casino night video and download it; upload video to YouTube
• Sean - download chess video, put clips together, find music, add music, upload to YouTube, write post
• Sabina - check on-campus project*
• Mike - check on-campus project*
• Cheng - Interview another administrator using flip camera, download videos to computer, write a post to go with it
• Paul - Research and figure out Live Video Streaming - e-mail/call Hans, go on our account, test it, how do we hook up a camera to computer, etc.; Post on RUaDN blog a "how to" article with links we may need.

*Check your on-campus projects.

• Take new updated photos and observe their progress.
• Download photos to Picasa account
• Write a new post in morning

Apple Store Work Session:
1. GMap: (ALL students) [15 min. - This will be easier to do on a lap top as opposed to an iPad]

• Check Description for GMap and make sure it is 3-4 lines. You may copy directly or paraphrase from Winterim Catalog.
• Click enter when line hits edge of square.
• Add group photo to GMap entry
• Log into Picasa as LAWinterim
• Copy part of group photo EMBED link  (see red portion below): <table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/LAWinterim/AllCreaturesGreatSmall?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_beFEqq4HsBU/TXVD4LlCI5E/AAAAAAAAA_0/xR6hnysVRug/s160-c/AllCreaturesGreatSmall.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/LAWinterim/AllCreaturesGreatSmall?feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">All Creatures Great &amp; Small</a></td></tr></table>
• Paste this link 2 lines below text, but DELETE the "s" from https and put ! before the "h"         (!http://)
• make sure the end of the link looks like this:   .jpg!230!170!

2. Feature Blog article with Partner - Post and individually promote (lap top, desk top or iPad)

3. Finish or continue to do daily Social Media Job (iPad or lap top)

4. Reflective Comment on RUaDN Blog (iPad)

By End of Day:

• 1-2 new posts (this does not include follow-up work/updated posts) which contain good content: media, good title, links, and tags.
• 1 feature article with partner (4 total hit blog by 2:30 pm)
• All jobs done
• GMap is finished and ready to be published
• 8 Reflective comments on RUaDN 3/14 Agenda

Friday, March 11th Agenda

1. Know your Social Media Job Assignment
2. Check e-mail in case you have received anything
3. Field Reporting
4. Each of your groups must have at least ONE blog by the end of today! This will mean you need to write 1 to 2 blogs today. (If all your projects already have an article, you should do another 1-2 with different media and updates if know some.)
5. GMap - upload the group photo and write a 2-4 line description of the Winterim.
6. If time, another pitch, plan, post, promote contest.

Thursday, March 10th Agenda

Early Morning Goals:

Group photo for Mask Making and RUaDN.
Figure our your assigned job. Ask questions and make sure you have a plan to accomplish this job either at a specific time or throughout the day.
Take photos of your other on-campus projects.
Look at itinerary and/or send an e-mail to faculty of your "local" projects to figure out where they are for Friday and/or next Tuesday.

Plan, produce, and post 2 blog articles for another one of your groups before lunch.
(Lunch is off campus today. You will have internet access and you will have time to work before and after lunch.)

Afternoon (after lunch):
Promote your article from this morning.
Work on Gmap for all of your projects. (Go to the link and add your group's world map location, group photo and text description to map. You can paraphrase what is in the catalog for the description. It should be between 3-4 sentences.)
"Reporting from the Field"plan - if there are "local" groups we can go visit on Friday and next Tuesday, we need to create a plan.
Reflect on today's activities by commenting on this agenda post.

Wednesday, March 9th Agenda

The LA Winterim blog looks very different after just one day.  I'm excited to see what it will look like by the end of today.

Our goals for today are:

• Last few group photo shots need to be completed.
• Learn how to upload to Picasa and access your groups' folders. (You'll need to check your e-mail for a lot of "invites" to photo albums.)
• Learn how to take quality photos which capture "the moment."
• Complete your Social Media job.
• Learn more about groups today - via group itinerary on Google Docs, Winterim catalog, visiting the group and etc.
• Post at least 2 articles to the blog about two of your individual groups. (Title, text, media, links, tags - Mrs. Boncher, Mrs. Poulin, or the RUaDN EIC needs to review it before it is posted.)
• Make a reflective comment to this agenda.

Tuesday, March 8th Agenda

Today Hans Mundahl from New Hampton School will be with us. He will help us really jump start the blog and our reporting methods.  Check out the his agenda on the wiki.

You will be responsible for your Social Media Job today, check out that schedule on the wiki as well.

Check Google Docs and make sure you can "see" all the itineraries and the RUaDN project list. You must know which Winterim projects are yours by this afternoon.

We are receving text and other media from groups through the LAWitnerim gmail account.  I will be forwarding these to you so you can create articles for the blog. I also have a lot of photos and video from last night if someone needs them.  I will try to upload them in case you need them.

Your last assignment everyday is to COMMENT on the blog post containing the day's agenda.  It must be a reflective comment about what you learned, the questions you have, what you accomplished, and how the group is doing.  Please be clear and write good comments to help our group improve each day with our work.

Monday, March 7th - 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 or part of afternoon)

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. YouTube Channel - subscribe to LAWinterim Channel

E. Picasa Photo Account - RSS feed this account to your Google Reader

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

G. Facebook Page- "like" our page

H. Blogger - become an administrator and follower for LA Winterim 11 blog, learn how to create a post, and become a follower of this blog (RUaDgtalNativ)

 

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

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

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)