While I'm deciding what collaborative media project to work on next, I'm posting some of the student videos from last year's Frontier Student Video Show (from May 2008).
Enjoy! Come check out this year's Student Video Show in May, 2009.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Election Project Wrap-up
Here are some clips from our live two hour Frontier Election Show. This Show will be re-broadcast on local community access TV stations very soon. I'll post the dates as soon as I get them. Thanks to the Frontier Studio Production II and Video Club advanced video students for their work in producing this Show along with students from Mr. Murphy's Information Literacy Class. The video students represented themselves and their school in a very professional manner. I'm now looking into possibilities for future Frontier social media projects.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Election Project Feedback
Please take a few minutes to post some comments about the Election Media Project so that we can make future Frontier Projects even better. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Please post anonymously or use first names only and inform me of your post for extra credit. I will publish all the results of this informal survey on this blog ASAP.
These questions are for Frontier students and staff who worked on this Project. They are also for anyone in the Frontier Community who watched the TV show or interacted with student pollsters and reporters.
Evaluate and Summarize-
Here are some essential questions to draw conclusions about this Project. Please answer or comment on at least a few.
1. Effectiveness:
What were the most effective parts of this Election Day Project? Explain.
What were some aspects that needed improvement?
(besides the bad video cable connections with Comcast)
2. Voting and Elections:
What did you learn about political elections and voting?
What affects the way people vote in a political election?
What was the most important issue to people in this Election?
Do you think this Election was more important than other Elections?
3. Social Media:
What role do you think social media and the internet now have in elections?
What is the best way to create effective social media for a community?
Do you think social media sites like youtube, facebook and myspace should be allowed in schools for educational uses? Explain.
Do you enjoy working on collaborative technology/media projects? Explain.
Do you find it interesting to work on projects that involve the community?
4. News reporting and polling:
What makes an interview effective?
What makes a news report effective?
How do media and news reports affect people's social/political views and how they vote?
Explain. (give examples)
5. Share other comments on the Election Day Project:
6. Suggestions for future collaborative social media projects:
Please post anonymously or use first names only and inform me of your post for extra credit. I will publish all the results of this informal survey on this blog ASAP.
These questions are for Frontier students and staff who worked on this Project. They are also for anyone in the Frontier Community who watched the TV show or interacted with student pollsters and reporters.
Evaluate and Summarize-
Here are some essential questions to draw conclusions about this Project. Please answer or comment on at least a few.
1. Effectiveness:
What were the most effective parts of this Election Day Project? Explain.
What were some aspects that needed improvement?
(besides the bad video cable connections with Comcast)
2. Voting and Elections:
What did you learn about political elections and voting?
What affects the way people vote in a political election?
What was the most important issue to people in this Election?
Do you think this Election was more important than other Elections?
3. Social Media:
What role do you think social media and the internet now have in elections?
What is the best way to create effective social media for a community?
Do you think social media sites like youtube, facebook and myspace should be allowed in schools for educational uses? Explain.
Do you enjoy working on collaborative technology/media projects? Explain.
Do you find it interesting to work on projects that involve the community?
4. News reporting and polling:
What makes an interview effective?
What makes a news report effective?
How do media and news reports affect people's social/political views and how they vote?
Explain. (give examples)
5. Share other comments on the Election Day Project:
6. Suggestions for future collaborative social media projects:
Election Project Thanks
This is a belated and overdue THANK YOU!
Thanks to all of the Frontier students, faculty and community members who helped out with the very ambitous collaborative Election Day Media Project. The Frontier students involved in this Project represented their community very well and displayed a professional attitude with their work. This Project was a collaboration of three teachers and their students: Mr. Boisseau, Government Teacher, Mr. Murphy, Technology and Information Literacy Teacher, and Mr. Merrick, Video Production and Media Literacy Teacher. A special thank you to Mr. Murphy and Mr. Boisseau for initiating this Project. A thank you also to the following people (names too numerous to list here):
Thanks to all of the Frontier students, faculty and community members who helped out with the very ambitous collaborative Election Day Media Project. The Frontier students involved in this Project represented their community very well and displayed a professional attitude with their work. This Project was a collaboration of three teachers and their students: Mr. Boisseau, Government Teacher, Mr. Murphy, Technology and Information Literacy Teacher, and Mr. Merrick, Video Production and Media Literacy Teacher. A special thank you to Mr. Murphy and Mr. Boisseau for initiating this Project. A thank you also to the following people (names too numerous to list here):
- Students who conducted exit polling, compiled and presented data
- Students who taped and edited video interviews of voters
- Students who conducted and/or took part in live web/skype reports and discussions
- Students who produced the live TV show, including the technical crew and hosts
- The TV show guests including Mrs. Barrett, Superintendent Nash, State Rep. Kulik, State Senator Rosenberg
- Tom Zimnowski and Marty McGuane, for TV/video assistance
- and others who helped out on Election Day in many ways
Friday, November 7, 2008
Election 2008 Media Project
Here is a link to one of the local news articles about our Election Day Media Project.
http://www.recorder.com/story.cfm?id_no=5445616
"Frontier students do exit polls"
Written by Reporter Chase Scheinbaum, Greenfield Recorder, 11/5/08
Soon I will be adding video clips to this blog from the live Election Show TV broadcast that we produced and the Show will be re-broadcast on local cable community access TV, including FCAT, Frontier Community Access TV, Channel 12.
http://www.recorder.com/story.cfm?id_no=5445616
"Frontier students do exit polls"
Written by Reporter Chase Scheinbaum, Greenfield Recorder, 11/5/08
Soon I will be adding video clips to this blog from the live Election Show TV broadcast that we produced and the Show will be re-broadcast on local cable community access TV, including FCAT, Frontier Community Access TV, Channel 12.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
A few things to confess:
- I can't go to sleep tonight until I find out who will be President.
- We discovered that the audio/video TV broadcast problems tonight were not Comcast's fault, but a bad cable at the high school that had to be replaced.
- Correction: (posted 11/6/08) Evidently the video picture was cutting in and out during the Show even after we replaced the bad cable- which actually is a Comcast problem that they need to fix.
- We did get one real e-mail question from a viewer and responded 2 minutes later by having our student news anchor ask State Senator Rosenberg that question- which was awesome- using social media instantly in real time on live TV! But we only had one other e-mail question and it was from one of the students in our video crew. Maybe next time we do a project like this more people will respond with instant e-mails and comments... I hope.
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