March 20

Finish up your work. News packages, etc. Tomorrow and Friday is make-up day for current event quizzes missed. All outstanding work has to be turned in by Friday this week.

Ms. Greer

March 19 -- Two wonderful videos

Click here for an amazing Radio Rookies piece.

Here is another one. About white people. Enjoy.

What did you think of these?

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 18 - Make-up Day (Thursday and Friday)

Make up day has been moved back. It is now Thursday and Friday. Work on your projects that are not finished today.

You will have a quick fire on block days this week.

Check these out.

Flamenco video here

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 15 - Piano Music has arrived!

You need to go to the Buffalo and see what the students cooked up for the videos you did in the Piano Project.

Please try to COPY them to your video . . . do not move them off of the Buffalo. Ms. Zmoda is trying to keep them together so she can give them grades.

It looks like they did multiples. For instance, I see three different versions of music for DJ's sad boy video.

Groups, here is what is needed for this 20 pt. project:

Put the music to each of the videos and then load them to YouTube so those kids can see them. After you post to Youtube, send a URL link in an email to Ms. Zmoda and copy the email to me.
In your email, write up your group's cool and warm feedback to the composers. I will give you a grade based on your completing these steps:

Remember to edit the footage with the music.

Post it to YouTube.

Send the link to me and to Ms. Zmoda.

Make sure that your group gave warm and cool feedback to the composers.

NO email, no grade.

Emily_Zmoda@mcpsmd.org
joanna_g_greer@mcpsmd.org

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 13 - Study on plastic in our bodies

This (click here)is what I was talking about . . . very scary.

Plastic is everywhere.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 13 - To do

Work on a mix of the bird tapes that you read about in the March 12 entry.

Due on Tuesday, March 19. (20 pts summative)

Tomorrow, a current events quiz. Also, Make-up day for quizzes, etc. is Monday and Tuesday during lunch.

You stop-motion homework is due on Friday, March 15.

Field Trip permission slips for Media Festival at Blake on April 10 will be here tomorrow. I need 48 students to go to fill the bus.

April 26th is the Environmental Film Festival field trip. That is at the AFI and we will go via Metro.

Next Tuesday is the last grade for this quarter.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring

March 12 - Contest you might like, all ye musicians

Studio 360, a public radio program about the arts, is hosting a contest for those of you who might be interested in mixing some music. Check out the contest here. It involves bird songs, really beautiful bird song. I think this is one of the coolest contests I have seen in a long time.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 12 - This will wake you up

Check this out.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 11 -- Animation Studies for Homework (Due Friday, March 15)

Click here for great little film about ancestors.

Click here for world's largest animation.

Click here for cool story made with cardboard and paper.

Click here for really cool new perspective on a stop-motion. At the end, you will see some of how it was done.

Draw up a plan for a stop-motion. Include two scenery slides. Write out the story and give a rough sketch of your characters. This rough sketch can be a drawing, or a picture of the little character you built.

The best ideas will be shot and made into movies. Yes, you are allowed to adapt a story. For example, you can use a fairy tale or something else that is in the public domain. That means no Disney or other things unless you are doing a parody.

10 pts. for scenery shots
10 pts. for storyline
10 pts. for character sketch
30 pts. total (Homework grade)

March 7 -

Check out the winners for the C-Span video news package contest. Many are from Eastern Middle School and Ms. Girley trained a lot of them before she came here from Eastern Middle School. Congrats, Ms. Girley!!

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 5 -- Check out

Watch the way this video is developed. What techniques do they use in their edit? Click here.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

March 4 - Check these out/turn in homework

Click here for process tutorial type of film. Yeah, it is kind of gross, but funny, too.

Ms. Greer

March 1 - Homework for Monday, March 4 (20 pts)

This is an example of what you can do with your reporting skills. This is a great media package. Scroll down to see the videos.

What is your feeling about this news? Did they reach you? What are your concerns about this?

Turn in three paragraphs with your analysis of this news package that answers in a thorough way, you take on this information and how it was delivered.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.