Day+2+-+Planning

=**//Goal Statement://**= //Overall Goal// Our goal is to engage students in a constructivist, technology-oriented, student-led project that utilizes students' passions, ideas, and personal resources to benefit the local community.

//What do you understand your priorities to be?// Our current top priority is to support the students as they organize their ideas and resources towards a project of their choice. Our next goal is to use scaffolding for the first few weeks to guide students towards performing their jobs independently. After that, we will embed relevant (academic) mini-lessons into the project to help students accomplish their goals. We will also use progress-monitoring techniques to ensure that students stay within the goals and timeline that they set forth in the beginning of the project.

//What concerns or ideas do you have that have not already been mentioned?// Time concerns - we don't want to take up too much of the teachers' time. Complexity - are we tackling more than we can handle? Developmental appropriateness and teacher investment - can the kids do this independently, and will the teachers be supportive of us and them?

//What are your key next steps, and by when do you plan to accomplish them?//
 * 1) Between now and Feb. 16 - Host teachers will help the students choose the crews/jobs that they would like to do.
 * 2) Feb. 16th - Abbey, Sam, and Sarah will visit P.K. to help the kids vote on a name for the project and begin working with their crews to develop timelines and specific goals.
 * Abbey - Website Crew
 * Sam - Outreach Crew
 * Sarah - News Crew
 * 1) Feb. 23rd - Abbey, Sam, and Sarah will return to P.K. to continue scaffolding the students so that they can complete their jobs and goals independently.

//What do you need from the professor in order to be successful?// Support and feedback :)

//Are there any key contingencies we should plan for now?// We need to take into consideration the availability of technology, how and when we will work with the kids, how and when we will contact local agencies, and how and when we will collect donations for the project.

//When will we next check-in on progress/issues?// We check in every Wednesday during our normal EME time slot.

//Who else needs to know our plans, and how will we communicate them?// We will communicate our plans to the teachers and P.K.'s support system (administration, parents, etc.), as well as any local news services and organizations that the kids choose to contact.

//Job List// **--** ** News Crew ** = =
 * Job description: The News Crew will record what's going on in our project. to be posted on website - Video Journal + Final Video
 * Tools - Video Cameras, Laptops, Editing software, Photography Cameras, flash drive
 * 1) === job assigning - who’s going to do what? what are our strengths? what are we good at? ===


 * 1) === anchors - one anchor for everything or a different one for every stage of project? ===
 * 2) reporter - interviewing students and participants


 * 1) === camera - one photographer, one videographer at all times. who’s going to be responsible for recording what? ===


 * 1) === director - one for each stage. who’s making sure everyone is doing what they’re supposed to? who’s directing the scenes? ===


 * 1) === title designer - making our title bars ===

=e. editor - collecting the footage, uploading and piecing things together =

**--** ** Website crew **
 * Job Description: The Website Crew will create and update a website that represents our project. Students who work on the website crew will be blogging about what each crew is working on and how the project is coming along. The Website Crew will also be creating logos, posters, and other art work to represent our project.
 * Tools - laptops, free web hosting, word processing software
 * Shutterfly
 * Wix
 * Art Crew
 * Design logos, choose colors - work with website crew and press crew
 * Art supplies, scanner?

> -Artists (Logos, website designs, etc.) > -Head Writer (Per Page) > -Writers (Photo journal/video blog, news updater, next steps) > -Uploaders/scanners > -Art Editors (per page) > -Reporter
 * **//Jobs//**
 * **//Workshop for Wednesday//**
 * Purpose of the website
 * What pages? What information should each page include?
 * The jobs (in specific)
 * Website sites
 * Logos

**--** __ **Outreach crew** __ //Job Description//: This crew has two main goals: They will be "reaching out" to people, businesses, organizations who will help us advertise our cause, as well as "reaching out" to similar groups who may be able to donate items for the drive. >> --- Divide up the above people/organizations to contact and RESEARCH phone numbers, email addresses. > 2. Design posters, flyers, reproducibles to help advertise >> >> --Outreach crew
 * 1) Brainstorming:
 * Develop list of things people can donate (look at Arbor House needs/wish list?) **AS A CREW**
 * ** Make a list of people/organizations: ****AS A CREW**
 * To help us advertise (local TV, newspapers, clubs, groups, schools, radio stations etc.)
 * organizations to reach out to for donations ( businesses, stores, events? where we can collect stuff? etc.
 * MAKE CHECK LIST and Assign: Who is calling who? emailing who? etc.
 * Brainstorm Poster slogans: what type of information needs to be on the flyers?
 * What types of materials are we using to make them? (collaborate with Website crew for logos, cause name etc.)
 * Who gets the flyers? Where will the posters go?
 * We need to assign a "correspondent" who will keep the other crews abreast of our progress
 * Reach out to newspapers and news stations and radio to notify people of the project
 * Email, Phone, design software (posters and pamphlets), scanner?
 * phone callers(2), emailers(2), reporter (1)