We are at the end of our journey at the MDMC2007. We have met our group goals buy creating the required items. Gail was fantastic to work with for the script and pod cast, Tom did an amazing job on the video and pod cast voice recording and Mary Ann and Melinda were wonderful at completing the other assignments for the team. If I attend this conference in 2008, the standard has been set high for the types of teammates I would want to work with.
Personally, I was not completely successful at attending all of the classes to increase my skills. This was due to the aggressive work schedule to complete the assigned tasks. I feel that is a bit ironic because the conference experienced it's own "learning curve" as the schedule did not lend itself the required tasks versus class schedule. If this can be corrected for next year, the conference will meet its objectives.
As I end my final post on the blog for the Sense of Wonder team, I would like to close by saying that the instructors were very helpfull and I enjoyed my journey at the MDMC2007 and the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Last Day GP
It's early on the last day of the MDMC 2007. The audio podcast is done, although I have some questions yet on the ID3 Tags. I also want to ask about the overall sound quality. It is not as smooth as I would like and the tweaking I did didn't get it as good as I'd like. It was hard because Tom's voice is much louder than Heidi's and they are on the same track. I suppose I could cut them and put them on separate tracks to get it a little better. . I'll be asking for the opinion of all of you early tomorrow.
The enhanced podcast became a bit tricky and I wished I had attended the adv. pod casting like I intended. I will look at the Apple tutorial and perhaps atomic learning yet tonight as I haven't been in there yet. It is late and perhaps I will work a bit on it yet tomorrow. I'd like some transitions between the artwork to look a bit smoother. I know that wasn't a requirement, but it seems many are doing it.
Finally, I hope the conference happens again next year as I would definitely come. But then we can all be working on a new system OS 10.5.? , and refining and relearning some of these skills again. For me, I would like to do more to upgrade my skills on the digital media production. I would hope to meet more new partners in education and have another group that was as good at collaborating as you guys were! Thanks, it was great to work with you.
The enhanced podcast became a bit tricky and I wished I had attended the adv. pod casting like I intended. I will look at the Apple tutorial and perhaps atomic learning yet tonight as I haven't been in there yet. It is late and perhaps I will work a bit on it yet tomorrow. I'd like some transitions between the artwork to look a bit smoother. I know that wasn't a requirement, but it seems many are doing it.
Finally, I hope the conference happens again next year as I would definitely come. But then we can all be working on a new system OS 10.5.? , and refining and relearning some of these skills again. For me, I would like to do more to upgrade my skills on the digital media production. I would hope to meet more new partners in education and have another group that was as good at collaborating as you guys were! Thanks, it was great to work with you.
I can see the light!
I can see a light at the end of the tunnel and I will see the script for the pod cast in my sleep tonight. I cannot imagine people listening to my voice in the pod cast as they view an exhibit in the museum. I have mixed feelings.....flattered or freaked, depending on how I look at it. If nothing else from this crazy week, I have found a backup career as a voice talent. (Oh, I can hear the laughter from my group floating over Lake Michigan from that comment.)
Thursday Day Three - GP
Well, the voiceover/recording is done, at last. It was great working with Heidi and Tom as they did a great job on the narration.
We found ourselves still editing the script as we recorded. Heidi knows it by heart!
Now I will spend time putting it together and doing a little editing. I hope I can do a job that does justice to the piece. It's a little scary doing this part of the project, so I made sure the first thing I did was make a backup of the garage band piece.
The plan is to do the audio podcast for the museum, but the I would like to enhance a second version with pictures that will help add interest.
We found ourselves still editing the script as we recorded. Heidi knows it by heart!
Now I will spend time putting it together and doing a little editing. I hope I can do a job that does justice to the piece. It's a little scary doing this part of the project, so I made sure the first thing I did was make a backup of the garage band piece.
The plan is to do the audio podcast for the museum, but the I would like to enhance a second version with pictures that will help add interest.
MDMC2007-Day Three
Day three is beginning with a sense of urgency......time is of the essence and it's counting down. Lots to do yet. Lots of think about. Not frantic yet, but thinking about being there.
Tuesday Reflections - GP
Day number two really saw things begin to fall into place; however, our group did feel pressured to give up attending some of the sessions we had planned as we needed to work on the project. in order to finish it. We worked on the script for hours and talked with the curator twice before our final approval. It will be Wednesday tomorrow and nothing has been recorded yet. Feeling some time pressure, but if the recording happens as planned tomorrow morning at 9 AM, we may all breathe a bit easier. I think editing will go on when more informational sessions are happening. Time will tell.......
I do think our group is doing well on collaboration in that everyone feels a real responsibility to contribute in every possible way to ensure the success of the project.
I do think our group is doing well on collaboration in that everyone feels a real responsibility to contribute in every possible way to ensure the success of the project.
Video Near Completion
I spent 4 hours last night editing video and still photos. I have the video down to just under 4 minutes. There is no narration, but I did use Claudia's live presentation of the first diarama. Hopefully it's to your liking and meets all requirements.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Wiki session
The wiki session opened up interesting possibilites for use with students. Now I just need to be able to convince the district administation that students should be able to use them! I'd like students to report on books and then as other students read them they could add comments. I could also see them being used for reporting on colonies or other social studens themes.
Standards and Narrative for Web Page
Please look at the following and comment. Dick said not to go overboard with the listing of stds. so I stuck with Science and History. I included the whole standard so that you could read it here and not have to access dpi. On the webpage, I'm assuming that Dick or the powers that be will just place the numbers for the stds.
Since everyone else was busy with the script, Melinda and I wrote the narrative for the podcast intro on the web page. Please look these over and comment. Thanks.
Wisconsin Model Academic Standards
The Sense the Wonder exhibit is an introduction to the museum experience. It is a representation of the historical and cultural thinking that spawned the collection of objects.
Social Science, Standard B: History
B.4.1 Identify and examine various sources of information that are used for constructing an understanding of the past, such as artifacts, documents, letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral presentations, graphs, and charts
B.8.1 Interpret the past using a variety of sources, such as biographies, diaries, journals, artifacts, eyewitness interviews, and other primary source materials, and evaluate the credibility of sources used
B.8.12 Describe how history can be organized and analyzed using various criteria to group people and events chronologically, geographically, thematically, topically, and by issues
Science, Standard A: Science Connections
A.8.4 Collect evidence to show that models developed as explanations for events were (and are) based on the evidence available to scientists at the time
A.8.5 Show how models and explanations, based on systems, were changed as new evidence accumulated (the effects of constancy, evolution, change, and measurement should all be part of these explanations)
Podcast Introduction for the Web Page
This podcast of the Sense the Wonder exhibit is an introduction to the museum experience. It represents the historical and cultural thinking that spawned the collection of objects for the purpose of public viewing. As such, the Milwaukee Public Museum was on the cutting edge of innovation during the Victorian Age in America.
Since everyone else was busy with the script, Melinda and I wrote the narrative for the podcast intro on the web page. Please look these over and comment. Thanks.
Wisconsin Model Academic Standards
The Sense the Wonder exhibit is an introduction to the museum experience. It is a representation of the historical and cultural thinking that spawned the collection of objects.
Social Science, Standard B: History
B.4.1 Identify and examine various sources of information that are used for constructing an understanding of the past, such as artifacts, documents, letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral presentations, graphs, and charts
B.8.1 Interpret the past using a variety of sources, such as biographies, diaries, journals, artifacts, eyewitness interviews, and other primary source materials, and evaluate the credibility of sources used
B.8.12 Describe how history can be organized and analyzed using various criteria to group people and events chronologically, geographically, thematically, topically, and by issues
Science, Standard A: Science Connections
A.8.4 Collect evidence to show that models developed as explanations for events were (and are) based on the evidence available to scientists at the time
A.8.5 Show how models and explanations, based on systems, were changed as new evidence accumulated (the effects of constancy, evolution, change, and measurement should all be part of these explanations)
Podcast Introduction for the Web Page
This podcast of the Sense the Wonder exhibit is an introduction to the museum experience. It represents the historical and cultural thinking that spawned the collection of objects for the purpose of public viewing. As such, the Milwaukee Public Museum was on the cutting edge of innovation during the Victorian Age in America.
Boy's Rule
Tom finally made it. I hope the curator was "in the house" and things are still moving forward. My battery power keeps dwindling. I "wonder" how people from the ages of our diarama ever survived.
MDMC2007-Day Two
Day two has been an exciting yet schizophrenic day. We have accomplished the writing of a good script, found Wisconsin Stds. to apply, attended classes and problem-solved to beat the band. As per the usual, technology has been a great help and a great hindrance. Flexibility is the operative word or the voices WILL start to take over as frustration sets in.
Gail's First Day
It seemed a bit of a slow start for me since I had viewed everything on the website that talked about the conference, and I also went onto the museum site and listened to all the podcasts. I was glad when we finally got to go into the museum and listen and learn from the curator and begin some planning. Don’t misunderstand. The morning was very a very thorough introduction which is always appreciated, but I was so keyed to get to the task. Type A, I guess.
During the night I had vision of what our podcast would look like. Looking forward to today! This is really cool to be producing something for the education and enjoyment of learning for the museum audience.
During the night I had vision of what our podcast would look like. Looking forward to today! This is really cool to be producing something for the education and enjoyment of learning for the museum audience.
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