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It took 2 days to get this DVD to embeddable code. Here it is, the long-awaited 9-11 presentation. For all of us who remember, this video brings back life as it was and life as we live it in a post 9-11 world. Broadcasting Terror calls into question “what if” there was no news–what would the impact of 9-11 been? Created by Brandon Lansing, William Kennington, Shannon Safi, Sarah Gracely, Matt Eherts, and Josh Gregory.

Definitely worth the re-filming to get a great final production captured forever. What if there was no news? What’s news? Watch The Nixon Era as Nadia Daher, Laudi El-Kareh, Hayley Joseph, Kelsey Molseed, and Andrew Samy uncover coverups in factual and counter-factual historical scenarios.

Long awaited, definitely worth the extra effort at re-filming. What if there was no news? What’s news? Enjoy viewing an intriguing counter/factual historical interpretations of what daily life might have been during this era with/out news. Created by Peter Cialkowski, Skye McCarty, My Phan, Fatema Rajmohamed, Hannah Rucker, and Courtney Weiss. ENJOY!

Thanks to the foresight of Frank Walsh, who taped his daughter Meagan’s IP team that opened the four presentations on May 27, 2009, we have one complete video, sight and sound, compressed, rendered, and uploaded to Mr. Walsh’s Viddler account. He did all of this within and posted it to his blog within 24 hours–talk about a very tech savvy parent (I want to hire him to film and upload next year, but I doubt I could afford his per diem). You can read about IP from a parent’s perspective, and undoubtedly enjoy An Era on Air’s presentation. Don’t miss the pictures in Walsh’s gallery.

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Nothing beats attending a performance live, but is time, space, and conflicts create issues for you, then attending virtually is a great option. For our IP presentations, my colleague, friend, fellow STAR DEN, and now Instructional Coach (next year’s dream job) and IP partner for over a decade, Jen Brinson and I decided to run a backchannel for the presentations. I had run backchannels before at conferences, presentations, and most recently in my classroom for students who were absent and for review purposes. My go-to platform of choice has always been Ustream.tv, although I hold similar accounts in other Web 2.0 offerings as well. The idea was the easy part; executing two-camera channels was an llama of a different color. So, I went to my go-to student, William Kennington, a great example of Tapscott’s Grown Up Digital Net Generation. Kennington was convinced that Ustream.tv could handle multiple channels; I knew Mogulus (now Livestream, but more about that later) could, but had my doubts about the former. Trust William; Ustream could and did handle the two-channel set up, and he also found a way to use CFF Macs to pull in the individual teams’ home laptop videos. We were glad to go with Ustream, because the streaming resolution and end-output quality when archived have always been superior.

On May 27, 2009, when this year’s IP debuted, two students, Megan Heverly and Mark Attilio ran the backchannels, starting, ending, saving, and archiving each team’s two-channel streams for posterity. They were my link to the streams, since I was, as always, mutitasking. Brinson anchored the streaming the whole day, since she had formulated her defense questions for the teams in advance, and was our connection with our guest viewers, which included her family in NC and her Canadian colleagues in her online course with Discovery Education/Wilkes University, Salisbury Middle School history classes, and Mrs. Meholic’s math classes. At one point, Brinson said we had 21 site guests. Not bad at all for IPs maiden voyage into virtual productions.

The question that Brinson and I continue to be bombarded with is when will the presentation be posted. Here’s the timetable. William is giving the teams their stage footage to mix and edit with videos/slides tomorrow. Thursday is binder due date, and that includes a mixed final video. At that point, I will compress each video, render it, and upload it. Each video takes about a half a day from start to finish for embeddable code for online posting. At that point we will post to our blogs: Changing Connections, RJ Stangherlin SHS, Learning Curve, PA DEN, Education, Technology, and Fun blogs. I am guessing that a week from this Thursday you can start checking our blogs. If you are part of our social networks (Brinson’s and mine overlap to a point), you can follow our tweets. We’ll keep you posted for when the students amazing presentations can be virtually yours.
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