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My buddy Jacob brought up the idea of a few of us friends from college collaborating on a blog to share the things that we love to look at! Whipped up a quick idea, we’ll talk more, was just excited to collaborate again!

WhoseTube - Damian Kulash Jr. of Ok Go in NYT →

This almost two months old and I just came across this great op-ed piece by Damian Kulash of OK Go. This article makes all the sense in the world to us younger generations adapting and trying to understand the impact of sites like YouTube and Facebook, but really goes to show how some models just aren’t adapting fast enough or worse, not even trying.

Hardrive Down.

My first plan today was to post a few storyboards and ideas about a new stop motion animation piece my buddy Casey and I were going to start soon. Sadly, while at work, my Western Digital Passport seems to have died. Why assume it dead? The clicking/siren noises coming from it’s lifeless body are keeping my data captive; that’s why.

I’d still like to post some images tonight but, in the meantime, I’ll be crying over my HD that once was. Perhaps there is a way to fix it, then again, perhaps not. I’ll keep doing some research.

New Twitter Account For HS Sports Scores?

In my current capacity I am the Video Assistant at Brunswick High School here in Brunswick, Maine, although I may have already covered this! With a closed circuit television system installed within the school, I assist students in producing a daily morning announcements news program. Since my arrival here a few short months ago, I try to break something everyday. Not in a manner that leaves something physically or virtually unrepairable, but rather breaking the mold the show has been in to try something new (Embracing the Chaos for us Tara Hunt followers www.horsepigcow.com).

Currently we operate every morning, alternating anchors and crew on Black and Orange days respectively. We’ve been able to get the system setup in a way that allows all media playback and capture to go straight through a Mac rather than older tapes and VCR, create lower thirds, credits, and titles for all announcements (courtesy of Mr. Sam Johnson(www.scj.me)), and even add a weather segment every Orange Day with a brief forecast.

I guess this post is more of an idea rather than a ton of information, although the previous two posts may suggest otherwise. Sports. We mention them, but don’t recognize them. We need to make this more prominent that we can recognize these spectacular student athletes and various contests in a more individual manner, like the weather segment, rather than just slamming them into the announcements.

The answer? Twitter. This is entirely experimental, but what if the students could report the scores to the Studio aid RIGHT AFTER the game has happened. They are less likely to forget, more likely to accurate (as long as the scoreboard was!) and more interactive for students to have a piece of their information presented every morning to the whole school.

Twitter and like tools are nothing new, but it’s something I’ve been trying to get integrated into certain lessons and projects with students since I got here and so far I’ve heard nothing but great things. I’ll give a better update in a few weeks when we’ve started the sports segment and see how the data generation of the scores works out. I have a really good feeling about this… Here’s to the BHS Studios and all the students who crew everyday. Keep rockin’ guys (and gal)!