5.27 - Website Checklist

Warm-Up

POTD

QOTD: What did you think of the movie yesterday? Do you think that creating new life forms is worth the risk?

Website Checklist

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Use today to make sure that you have all of your webpages complete and accurate. Use the checklist to verify that it is complete.

5.26 tech ethics & synthetic life

Today we will be looking into technology and ethics.

There was a recent breakthrough in DNA research and what is being called "synthetic life." Here are two news articles on the subject:

Video: DNA revolt? Scientists create first synthetic cell

Synthetic life: Dr Craig Venter seeking 'monopoly', claims gene ...

Based on the video you will watch in class ponder and answer the following questions (especially the last 3!):

Craig’s Questions:

1. What is Life?
2. Can we pare it down to its most basic components?
3. Can we digitize it?
4. Can we regenerate life or generate life out of the digital world?

Morgan’s Questions:

1. What is the ethical consideration of this technology? In other words:
2. What do we stand to gain from this technology?
3. What could we loose with this technology?

5.24 - School Selection

Warm-Up
POTD
QOTD: Based on your careers that you investigated last week, what kind of post-secondary (after high-school) education are you interested in? Create a list of five colleges that you would like to attend. Include a “dream” (difficult to get admitted into) school and a “safety” (relatively easy to get admitted into) school. Write a sentence or two about what draws you to each college you picked.

School Search
We will be conducting some research today on our top picks for school. Use on-line research to find the following information on each school:


1. Tuition (instate / out-of-state)
2. Location
3. Program Strengths
4. Campus Life
5. Extracurricular Activities

Here is one link to get you started:
http://www.usnews.com/rankings

Compile this information in a 6x6 table on your Google Sites’ “Researching Colleges” Page


Admissions
Find the admission requirements and application deadlines of each of your schools. Post this information in a 6x3 table on your “My Colleges” page.

BONUS:

Create a tribute page to each school you chose. Include images and information about the school.

Uploading Portfolio Work
Give people access to your best work.
Use:
Youtube (video)
Picassa (images)
google docs (writing)
soundcloud.com (audio)


5.20 - Resume, Skills & Links

Warm-Up (15 min)
POTD
QOTD:
Answer the following questions in paragraph form (answering these one by one will NOT look good):

1. What skills do you have?
2. Provide the amount of experience and level of each skill you identify.
3. Identify how you have used each skill you identify.
4. Think critically about how your hobbies and extracurricular activities have enhanced your skills (step/basketball/soccer = productive collaboration / work well with others)

For Example:


Over the course of the last decade I have enjoyed various opportunities to develop skills in diverse arenas. During my three years of studying and working in Beijing I developed a advanced level of Mandarin Chinese Language. In my work with Boston University, I was able to hone my skills in web development and online class production. Similarly, in working in Boston and Oakland high-schools, I was able to further develop my audio and video production technique, as well as my own pedagogy. Concurrent to these experiences I served as the junior varsity basketball coach, working with a small group of students developing a highly specific skill-set.

Resume and Proof

Making your resume will connect to two pages in your portfolio

1. The Resume page (duh!)
2. The links page

Everything listed on your resume page should be proved on the links page. Provide links to examples of everything listed under hobbies, skills, and interests.

Making the Resume (30 min)
While in high school you may not have a great deal of work experience, we all have a number of skills that we have picked up through working at home (child care, cooking, 2nd & 3rd languages) or participated in in you electives and art classes (public speaking, photoshop, video editing).

1. Open pages.
2. Choose the “resume “ category
3. Choose your preferred style of resume
4. Fill out resume with your profile (your goals paragraph will do), job experience, school and skills (the paragraph we wrote for warm-up)
5. The short paragraph under the job title, date and location is generally used for describing the job and its responsibilities.
6. Do NOT fill out full name, address and phone information!
7. Do include email address and URL of your website.

Links Page
Create a links page to accompany and provide proof for everything you claim on your resume. This applies to each of your jobs listed as well as your school and skills (if you claim that you have some experience editing video, provide a link to a video that you have edited).

Be sure to get the full URL for your link! You may abbreviate how the viewer will see your link, but if you don’t get the full http//www...they may never see your work!

Uploading Portfolio Work
Give people access to your best work.
Use:

1. Youtube (video)
2. Picassa (images)
3. google docs (writing)
4. soundcloud.com (audio)

5.19 - Goals and Careers

Warm-Up
POTD
QOTD:
In paragraph form, answer the following questions:

1. What do you want in life?
2. What do you intend to do to make these things come about?
3. What kind of work do you want to do? This can be a job (doctor) or a type of work (community worker).
4. What can you do to get closer to your goal in the next year?
5. What can you do about this in the next 5 years?

Por Exemplo:

My goal in life is to be a catalyst of positive change both for my community and myself. I have spent the last decade in education teaching English to non-native speakers and digital arts to high-school and college students. Currently, I am looking to further develop myself through working in an industry that will cultivate my artistic sensibilities. This summer I will be spending time researching sustainable micro-environmental film production in the Pacific Islands.

Sign In to Google Sites
1. Edit the My Jobs Page
2. Find at least two jobs that match your goals or interest you.

3. Use monster.com, craigslist.org, careerbuilder.com, etc. to search for the following information:

1. Brief Description of job
2. Salary & Benefits
3. Necessary Experience
4. Necessary Education
5. Other requirements

Uploading Portfolio Work
Give people access to your best work.
Use youtube, Picassa, google docs or other online file saving resource.

5.17 - The Future

Warm Up (20 min)
POTD
QOTD:
In a paragraph, write an introduction to your new website. Include the following.

1. Your First Name
2. Something about yourself
3. Your hobbies
4. Your high school
5. Your philosophy or passion in life
6. Your background
7. Something recent that you like

Example:
My name is Morgan however some people call me Mr. Morgan or teacher. The name Morgan can be traced back to Welsh language and is translated as one who lives by the sea. While I am not Welsh, and don’t plan to be, I do enjoy spending time near and in the ocean, streams, swimming holes, lochs, fjords and rivers. When I’m not teaching in a rapidly growing charter school I am at home playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. I also like to make sample-based music and do so on the MPC 2000XL sampling workstation. I am passionate about governmental reform and am actively researching fractional reserve banking, fiat currency, and film theory. I grew up on a farm in Oregon milking goats as my parents ran a number of small businesses. I attended the great University of Oregon and graduated in the Department of East Asian Studies with a major is Chinese Languages and Literatures as well as a Masters in Education from Boston University. I have spent three years in Beijing studying and working and consider it my second, more polluted, home. As well as being a funky hip-hop junkie, I am also a fan of late 1970s German synthesizer music and love movies by Brian DePalma.

Google Sites
Create a new site for your school and professional life using google sites.
12th graders, I recommend choosing the “transition portfolio” template.
Name your site - Choose an appropriate name
You can change the URL of your site from the default
Choose a theme - choose a style for the colors and background of your site

The Home/Welcome Page
Select Edit Page
Copy and paste your welcome paragraph to the welcome page body.
Saved Changes

Manage Site
More Actions - Manage Site
Add a header logo

The Logo
Your logo should be something that will represent your site. You may choose to incorporate images with your text.

Use adobe Illustrator or Photoshop to create a logo for the header of your site.
Not typically bigger than 600px wide and 150px tall. If you are going bigger, there should be a good reason for it.

Uploading Portfolio Work
Give people access to your best work.
Use youtube, Picassa, google docs or other online file saving resource


Artist Statement - Draft Dodge

Warm - Up

POTD

Turn in your Artist Statement!

Here is our last chance to turn in your second draft of your artist statement. If you have not yet completed it, please post the second draft to your blog by the end of the day. I am not in today but I will be looking at your writing over the weekend.

If you still have not turned in a first draft, please print out a copy and have a classmate edit it. These peer edits will become your second draft to post on you blog.

If you have received a second draft back form me and have not yet made the changes, do so now. When completed please rename your file to "Artist Statement Draft 3 YOUR NAME" and drop in the appropriate drop box.

QOTD:

How did you like the exhibition? What could have gone better? Would you like to do an exhibition like that again?

OMM Artist Statement

One Minute Movie Artist’s Statement

Please write a five-to-six-paragraph artist’s statement based on your One Minute Movie. You are writing to clarify the meaning, choices, intentions and ideas expressed in your slideshow. Below are the questions that come from the ES GRADUATION PORTFOLIO. This is a GRAD PORTFOLIO TASK, and this can be submitted for your GRAD PORTFOLIO.

Use the following questions as a guide, but make sure the statement flows together as one, continuous piece of writing. Please write in full sentences. You DO NOT have to label each paragraph with the category name. You will get an “A” on this if you go beyond simply answering each question and write your thoughts in depth.

1st Paragraph – Point of View
What was the title of your short? Who’s point of view is the story told from? Briefly describe the story you told.
What is the protagonist’s goal or quest? Why is that goal important to the protagonist?
What are you trying to say in the story (in other words, what is the point)? Do you feel you were successful in communicating this message to your audience? Why or why not?

2nd/3rd Paragraph - Technique
Describe your story telling style. What technique did you primarily use to tell your story (camera angles, narration, dialogue, action, editing)? Give at least two examples of how you used this style of telling your story.
Describe the types of shots you used in your short. How did you choose the types of shots you used? Give at least one example of how a specific shot contributed to telling your story.
Describe any transitions, titles, or special effects that you used to enhance your story. What effect did you intend these to have on your story and the audience?
How did the audio (music, sound effects, dialogue, ambient sound) contribute to telling the story? Give at least one example of a sound that helped you tell your story and explain what purpose it served.
In making your short, what experimentation did you use?
With outlines, shot lists, storyboards, multiple drafts, peer review and deadlines, how did your short change over time?
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3rd Paragraph - Context and Connections
What or who inspired you to tell this story (this could be: movies, books, family stories, friend’s stories, myths, legends, T.V., anywhere else. Be specific)? What in these inspiring works did you use? List three examples and describe what or how they influenced you or your group.
What genre is your film? What kind of genre conventions did you use in your film?


4th Paragraph – Process
Describe your process. What steps, benchmarks, and/or goals did you go through to create your final draft of your short (see group stamp-list)?
Identify at least one piece of peer feedback you received and describe how it changed your short.
What were some of the things you learned through making this short (this could be: composition, audio recording, story boarding, angles, editing, etc.)?
What were your strengths in producing this project? Be specific about how it helped you.
What challenges did you face during your process? What strategies did you use to overcome them?

5th Paragraph – Evaluation and Reflection
How do you think you did at producing your project (use language from the rubric to evaluate your performance)?
What do you think is strongest about your project and what do you feel could be improved?

5.3 - View & Export

Warm-Up
POTD
QOTD: What is one thing that you can do today to improve your video?

Video Showing, Feedback & Selection
Submit a Broadband - Medium quality version of your edited film to receive feedback. We, as a class, will vote on the video that is most proficient.

IMPORTANT: Videos not shown in-class will NOT be shown at exhibition. Also, videos with content not appropriate for school (profanity, depiction of drug use, etc.) will not be shown at exhibition

Export and Turn-In
Export your video at FULL QUALITY after your video has been previewed in-class (file size is very large, save time may be up to a half-hour). Turn-in these large videos by transferring to Morgan’s External Hard Drive.