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May 16, 2014 · 11:05 am

Times for Pecha Kucha – Final Exam sign up.

Email me at bobwoodmsu@gmail.com with your request for recording of your Final Exam Pecha Kucha. I will note the schedule of all times and dates below so that you know what slots are available. Remember schedule ten minutes for the production.

Schedule ten minutes between Now and Wednesday May 28 – 3:00 PM – Provide me your list of twenty slides– play it and talk. I will video tape it. If you choose Tuesday May 27 or Wednesday May 28 you may come in anytime between 8:00 and 9:00 AM. Anyother days prior to May 27 you may do the presentation during SCI or during my plan 10:00 to 11:00 AM or After School. You may bring an entourage with you to watch and cheer – or it can be just you and me. Your call.

See you soon…

Thursday 22
10:20 AM – Kim Speers
10:30 AM – Devon Huston

Friday 23
Afterschool – Emma

Tuesday 27
8:00 AM – Vicky Juhl
8:10 AM – Kelly Snow
8:20 AM – Brooke Wilde
8:30 AM – James Albritas
8:40 AM – Fuk
8:50 AM – Taylor Hansen
Afterschool – Tuesday
2:50 PM – Dominique

Wednesday 28 – Late Start so the Times are screwed up
(first) Chelsea Moore
(second) Nicole Depender
(third) Nana

Afterschool – Wednesday
3:00 PM – Mike Doom
3:15 PM – Meghan Braspennix

Thursday 29 – Thursday
8:00 AM – Merle
8:10 AM – Kora
8:20 AM – Axel

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· 10:32 am

ME and MY Future – A Pecha Kucha

This year’s Senior Current Class entered the realm of Pecha Kucha. Elephants have souls. Praise the Lord.

The Assignment…ME and My Future (A Pecha Kucha). Counts as a 100 point assignment for MP #6 and 50% of your Final Exam. Please go here for available sign up times. Go here for a reminder of what makes a good Pecha Kucha.

And so, lets stick with it…and use the format for one last SCI Assignment. A Pecha Kucha video – from you to you. You know the format – 20 slides for 20 seconds. You know that less is more, and that if you talk instead of read from note cards, that your production flows. You know the subject for God’s sake. IT’S YOU!

The future is a path – not a place. Yours is so filled with possibilities. Lay out some of them in this assignment. Continue reading →

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May 10, 2014 · 2:34 pm

A Message from our Danish comrade – Almanda Molter

And so at least the Danes know what’s wrong with this country…go here to find out.

How long do we, do you, put up with it?

I think this is still a Democracy? Isn’t it?

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May 5, 2014 · 12:56 pm

The Final Stretch in Senior Current Issues – 2014

Guys – Please Please Please Please Please – look long and hard at the Building A Better World Scholarship (due Friday May 16) Rich MCarthy Scholarship and Tia Peterson Scholarship (due Friday May 9). This is good money. It’s home grown. Somebody in the senior class will win. Why not you?

OK…here we go guys. We got a three week stretch run – until your days at the ole Ridge are over.

A month of African studies in Senior Current Issues runs through May 16. Since I will be gone from May 5 to May 9, it is imperative that you understand the requirements for all of your Africa assignments and that you contact me via email while I am in D.C. should you have any questions. You do not have any particular time that you must work on each of the assignments, however due dates are set – so you need to be aware of them. Unfortunately we will not have time to present our Digging Deeper – Pecha Kucha from Africa will be the big presentation assignment. So Pecha your Kucha and Kecha your Pucha – and lets get ready to rock. Continue reading →

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· 10:04 am

Pecha Kucha – Time for a chit chat on Africa

OK guys – it’s Pecha Kucha Time! I cannot wait for you to do these things. The requirement is clear. The rubric is simple. The experience for all involved could be really rich. And you are the guinea pigs…so lets jump on the wheel and start running.

Presentations – Half the class on Wednesday May 14. Half the class on Friday May 16. Finish up on Monday May 19.

First – go here and take a look at all three descriptions of Pecha Kucha. The first is a video on how to make one. It’ll provide you some ideas and get you accustomed to the format. The third youtube video is a college professor’s very clear and very simple screen cast on setting up your Powerpoint for the presentation. The Powerpoint portion is easy. The second video/post is the one I think that will benefit you the most. It’s by a guy from Chicago, involved in the online world, who loves Pecha Kucha and who has laid out a fabulously valuable little tool to work you through the assignment. Read it all. Watch the video. It will help you tremendously. Continue reading →