Jackson,+B

=Brandon Jackson=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** || Selected materials for the classroom should stimulate growth, represent all groups, provide both sides to controversial issues and enrich and support the curriculum. If material is challenged: don't defend it, explain the process, informal reconsideration, formal reconsideration, Superintendant's review,Board's review. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies ||  ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Building electronic portfolios with wikis || I like the concept of creating a Wikispace as a way to broadcast student videos. Because the primary content would be video, the videos would need to be stored on another site (ie Academy Website) and student would create links to that site. Students could describe each project and their roles/responsibilities for that project. They could also post comments/feedback about the work. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Copywright Information and Reconsideration Policy || Fair Use policy means that just because it's for educational purposes doesn't give you the right to copy anything. Teachers may show a home-use-only video in the classroom with the reasoning that teachers have the right to display works in face-to-face teaching situations.
 * 1:00-1:50 || Managing Website and Student Database || Lots of great information. I love the student/parent database. I setup an RSS for the Academy website and I updated my profile on the website. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal ||  ||
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting ||  ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties ||  ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Time Management with Google || We discussed Google tools, blogging, RSS, iGoogle, etc. Having a Gmail account and working with these tools can be extremely helpful (and somewhat confusing). I didn't know about the + e-mail account (temporary acct) that you can incorporate with your current e-mail address (ie brandonwjackson+test@mac.com). While I use Google search engine, alot of these other applications aren't applicable to my class, but might be very useful in my personal life. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Podcasting – Broadcast Yourself || Podcasting would give students an opportunity to record themselves for public broadcast (upload to the internet). This would be a great audio assignment to have the students pretend to be DJs. Garage Band.com is a good site to visit for "pod-safe" music downloads. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Vocabulary Exercise || It wasn't easy coming up with words to add to the vocabulary list. Many of the vocab words that we use in Media Tech are specific to the industry; terms and techniques that don't translate well into day-to-day usage. However, I was able to come up with a few that I feel are universal and, while we know them and use them quite often, are not so easy to define. Communication, mass communication, media and demographic. ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time ||  ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments ||  ||