Poetry Performers Produce Podcasts Proficiently

Theme
Poetry Study

Project
As your contribution to an anthology of poetry, choose one poem from the poetry that you have written this year.

Prepare a presentation that will include the following:

  • the text of the original poem
  • an explanation of the poem
  • your reading of the poem
  • a visual that will connect to and enhance the meaning of
    your poem.

Use Adobe CS3 software in developing your performance.

Incorporate appropriate audio and visual information to enhance your presentation; e.g., you might include musical background to a taped reading of the poem.

Make this presentation in the classroom setting, but also share it more widely, by transferring it to an online anthology database.

The presentation is to be shared with the class, using multimedia presentation software.

ComTech Project Underway

Soon, I’ll know officially the actual funding our school received for it’s role in a Multimedia Initiative Project. The $297,722 award to our division was announced in late April. The proposal included “in kind” promises from the school division for staffing, PD, technical support pushing the overall project funding over $400,000. Yesterday’s video conference with the division project leader suggested our school has about $87,000 to spend on hardware and software.

The project focus is on audio, video, animation, photography, digital production and printing skills.

So I’ve been web shopping.

Hardware:
iMacs(at least 6, but likely several more), NAS storage, printers, SLR digital cameras, HDV cameras, microphones, midi keyboards, mixing boards, speakers.

Software:
iMovie, Garageband, Final Cut, Aperture, etc etc
Adobe CS3 (PhotoShop, Premier, Flash, etc.)

The first stumbling block to building my purchase proposal is costing the site/division licenses for software. I need to hear back from the division technology director about that. After software is costed, the rest will be spent on hardware.

Cool.