Hennessey : 

• Tutorial - Check out the link I added to a tutorial for the students showing them how to access the wiki FrontPage and then how to edit their own assigned topic!  It is in the form of a powerpoint which we can project and then also print for them as they begin to add information to their pages. 
• Blog - I'm still working on the blog so students can view advertisements and comment before we jump into having them work in their technique groups. 
• Hook - Let's work on what we plan to share with them as we open up the project.  I like the Ad Surd world video so they can see a local kid asking the question about ads.  Perhaps our initial question could be "what is so wrong about all those ads?  We just ignore them anyway?"  It might be powerful to then hit them with research which suggests otherwise.  I can pursue this if you would like.  Also, your idea about the fast-forward model make-up video would fit in here. 
• Do you think you want to use the Reading Photographs unit with the students first?  I have to follow up with Zari to see when she can present to them about doctoring photos. 

Potts:

•        It's surprising how much different manipulating wiki stuff is! My head is spinning...I think I need a dramamine. I realize now how much i have been relying on the Windows/Office interface that really hasn't changed much in a decade. This stuff is way different. Still, the end result is huge, and I'm stoked.
• The Tutorial and the project on 23 Techniques is phenomenal.
• Right now the kids are very ready/capable to dig in to the specific techniques and they will really enjoy using the technology. The first three links (especially Reading Photographs) I predict would be too deep for these students. A large portion are really not intellectually driven it seems, and I think the concepts there (or perhaps the presentation) are a touch too abstract.
• I SAY: Let's watch a video and have the kids draw a technique out of a hat, working in pairs. We stick them on computers and unveil the tutorial from the smart board slowly as they follow along for the first steps.
• Once they have surfed/scavenged and added comments I would like to explain after the wiki aspect of what we have actually done. THEN I'll get them into one of the labs to go through the process again and again--either adding comments or pasting in more examples to each page for each technique.
• I WOULD REALLY LIKE to learn how to set these pages up as true Blogs and to enable posting without a email
• ...OR I will just get parental permission to sign every student up with a harwood address
• Let's procrastinate on doctoring photos until a little later...Media Lit Level II (I think there will certainly be time for a project in which students are creating media which for me is the next frontier.)
• Awesome, Susan.

Hennessey:

• Review - 1.)  pick 10 techniques to focus on and send them to me so I can make the table/links on the wiki.  2.) revisit the ads students have already worked with and look for examples of the techniques as a way to teach all 10 to the class.  3.) Students pick a technique out of a hat and, working in groups of two, come to the library for the tutorial.  I'll add links to the Frontpage to advertisement databases.  4.)  We will have them comment on each other's technique pages using the comments function.  It turns out the comments do show up on the bottom of the page.  Perhaps it was your Mac/Laptop having issues.  I think this is our safest, most streamlined way to have kids reflect on the projects.  4.) Shift and reassign a new technique to each pair and start the process again.  5.) Time permitting, have the pairs create their own original ad using a chosen technique.
• Can you think ahead and plan the time for library instruction? I want to pencil you in soon so we can give students plenty of support as they work with their wiki page. 

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