PLANNING!!!!

Today we are planning your "Be The Change" projects.

Choose AT LEAST 4 of the following.(This might be different if you are part of a two- or three- person group.)

Volunteering

Street theater

Direct action or demonstration

Letters to important people

Videos

buttons/stickers

social media (like Facebook)

PROPOSE your strategy and your plan, with deadlines, to your group.

PROPOSE your plan to me and Kemar, via email, by 3:00 PM on Saturday, 11/5. Copy your group members on the email.

The proposal should outline the big deadlines, like "upload the video" or "send the letters"; the little things on the way, like "edit the video," are for you and your group, not for Kemar and me. As a reminder, our email addresses are

kemarbennett at hotmail dot com

profpoole at gmail dot com.

Your confirmed proposal is binding. If you need to move a deadline you must re-propose it and get it confirmed by Kemar and me.

Collect your work in a portfolio on 12/9!

PRESENT your work on 12/16

SEND your finished portfolio to me by 12/19, no exceptions! Note: no speeches on 12/2; we need another work day.

TODAY; PLANNING THE PROJECTS!

Today we are planning your "Be The Change" projects.

Choose AT LEAST 4 of the following:

Volunteering

Street theater

Direct action or demonstration

Letters to important people

Videos

buttons/stickers

social media (like Facebook)

PROPOSE your strategy and your plan, with deadlines, to your group, THEN your group proposes it to Kemar and me, by 12:30 today.

Your confirmed proposal is binding.

Collect it in a portfolio on 12/9!

PRESENT your work on 12/16

SEND your finished portfolio to me by 12/19, no exceptions!

Note: no speeches on 12/2; we need another work day.

Campus Champions of Change Challenge

President Obama is urging college students to self-report stories of change within their communities that they were involved in. It’s called “Campus Champions of Change Challenge” http://www.whitehouse.gov/CampusChallenge You ARE champions of change; tell the president! Get a broader audience for your projects!

Extra office hours this week!

Hi! If you want to meet with me to talk about your project or about classes, I'm adding extra office hours this week!

So, total office hours remaining this week are

4-4:30 Wednesday

12-1 Thursday

4-5 Thursday

1-2 Friday

Enjoy!

Event on Friday night (optional/extra credit)

IF YOU WANT, come to this event held at MIT on 10/21 at 7pm

"A Robot Sent to Destroy Me": Town Hall Meeting on Media and Democracy

This is FREE.

If you want to earn extra credit, comment on this post afterward with ONE cool thing you learned at the event, the name of ONE cool person you met, and ONE way this event might inform your projects.

Finding Out Stuff (AKA Information Literacy)

As a reminder:

You have a strip of paper with questions on it.

Find out the answers to the questions.

Make a comment on here with your answers.

This is important! We ALL need to know the answer to your questions! You're building the class' "textbook" or "reference book"!

Link to a website you found useful in finding out stuff regarding your question.

Thanks!

America Speaks (10/14)

Greetings, change agents!

Last Friday was kind of cool, wasn't it?

Please bring your laptops this Friday! We'll be hunting for information in class, and this works better if most of you have your own laptops!

We're also going to visit a problem-solving and project-based learning workshop at the college at 12:00, and you're going to model your awesome creative thinking and teamwork skills for professors at the college. You'll be asked to work with the professors to conceptualize some element of your Be The Change project: for example, a bumper sticker, a social media campaign (like Facebook or Twitter), a public outreach act (such as a flash mob, protest, public demonstration), or a YouTube video. So, come in with an idea of what your social or political problem is!

Also, you've probably heard on the news or elsewhere already, but Occupy Boston continues to make waves. Over 2000 people attended the students' march on Monday (did you???) And over 100 Occupy Boston participants were arrested very late Monday night.

(Your professor was there during the arrests. And yes, it was scary. And yes, it felt momentous, too. That's sort of how this stuff works--scary and momentous all at once.)

Here's video from the moment when the arrests began: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu63e7QD_5k

Some clips from the arrests: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FfO2rRbeQ

Occupy Boston's media team continues to do good work. See the press releases and other coverage at: http://occupyboston.com