Oh holy heck, I am quite literally blogging the tar out of the dang interweb.
Dang, oh shoot, oh wow, this is the future shooting off via lasers straight to the brain of our future robot overlords.
Or something. Just bloggin' y'know.
Its Like Self-Esteem, Just More Invisible Trying to get into some of that Capacity Building stuff. Working on some teacher tutorials on how to use things like the internet and word processing and a mouse. Trying to figure out how to deceive the kids into thinking I have magic powers. Lusting pretty hard for Apple Remote Desktop. Anyone know any freeware alternatives to that?Also, is anyone in good with the Information Technology or Instructional Technology or Nerd Patrol or whatever they call it at Boston Public Schools? I've found myself in the curious position of being the de facto computer lab guy at the school I work with and I just want to make sure Im not a: screwing anything up b: making more work for myself c: overstepping my authority That last part has been somewhat amorphous. It seems that I get granted authority over things by taking responsibility for them. It seems there is no higher power than making things up as I go along. Excelsior, etc. …read more
<em>In Brief:</b><strong>The Kids:</strong> some of them are finally getting it together, projects are rolling, cameras are getting turned on and pointed at things, footage is on various computers and there is much running around and talk about football and cliques. <strong>The Materials:</strong> cracking out some workshop prototypes and test-driving them, got a website up to help things run and make materials available to all.<strong>The Organization:</strong> we're moving down the line to new office space in the Roxbury Mall trying not to go nuts... …read more
First Shot - So this Monday will be my first day doing the bit that urgently matters in a minute-to-minute sort of way: working in one of our after school programs. At the moment we're short of solid information but it looks like my co-worker (also a CTC VISTA) and I will be playing zone with 25 high school freshmen and somewhere between 0-5 video cameras in an effort to provide an interesting hands-on introduction to media production and digital storytelling. We're attempting to do this by breaking things up into small groups with very specific aims (mini-missions) and augmenting the equipment with whatever we can scare up. …read more
Yeah, so I'm blogging. Week 3 at the job. Trying to figure out that delicate balance between direct service and capacity building. Trying to get some people even crazier than me to do the direct service bit on a volunteer/intern basis. Anyone out there have any leads for getting volunteers? Specifically, in the Boston area? Been hitting colleges and posting on Craigslist and such.
May I suggest switching to decaf? ;-)