The Media Spot

Today was day 200 of 200 of our 2-year media ed contract with PS 124 in Brooklyn! Monday will mark the end of this year's technology consulting to Manhattan's PS 334 through our new relationship with AUSSIE, and Tuesday will close out our first year of media education work with PS 130 in Brooklyn.

I've been knee-deep in professional development workshops and classroom multimedia productions at these schools 5 days a week for the past month or so, as a result we've been quiet here on the TMS blog. However, I'll be packaging up all of the fantastic work we've been collaborating on with teachers and students over the next month -- making the resulting productions, unit plans, production notes, rubrics, and curriculum maps available here on our site for the extended media literacy community to use and respond to.

We've accomplished some great things in the first 10 days of our 30-day residency at The Parkside School in Brooklyn (PS 130). The blog network is set up, first graders are making videos that will provide a window into their exciting school lives, we've developed a strong policy for online safety, and a framework for a technology plan is in place.

Over a 6-day contract with 130 in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood in Brooklyn we set up a free WordPress.com blog, developed and modeled classroom publishing projects for students, got them posting weekly announcements from the office, and helped the staff start to conquer their fear of school technology!

Over a 6-day contract with 130 in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood in Brooklyn we've set up a free WordPress.com blog, developed and modeled classroom publishing projects for students, got them posting weekly announcements from the office, and helped the staff start to conquer their fear of school technology!