Personal understanding of symbol

Theme
Explore your personal understanding of symbol.

Project
Explore your personal understanding of symbol. Select one symbol from a particular piece of literature that you have studied this term. Plan a presentation—audio, video, animation, photo blog—in which you teach the concept and your understanding of that particular symbol.

Your presentation may include some or all of the following:

  • placing the symbol within the context of the literature chosen
  • identification of how that symbol is developed
  • your assessment of the effectiveness of that symbol in conveying meaning.

Use presentation software in developing your project.

Incorporate appropriate audio, video, animation elements to enhance your presentation.

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

Your presentation is to contribute to a pool of information on symbol.

This task is designed as a cumulative task toward the end of the term. Students are expected to draw from literature studied during the term. This task could be completed as an individual or group activity. It deals with the concept of symbol, but other literary concepts might be appropriate.

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.