audio tapes lead to ideas for pictures

Today in class we started listening to the recordings which Professor O’Connell provided for us. The material allowed us way to incorrupt pictures which we took from our visit to the zoo yesterday and other pictures to go back and take. We also started to edit some of the sound clips, which Professor O’Connell taught us in class. The website is really starting to take shape.

At the Zoo Plus More!

Yesterday, although very early, we finally made it to the zoo. as Tacy already emphasized, we now are able to start to put together our story. Wayne, put together an informal interview, that told us about him and his story. although we were not able to talk with other volunteers like planned, we did get the chance to here about the programs that the zoohas to offer.

Along with learning about the programs, wayne gave us the oppurtunity to volunteer at the zoo, and help us out with our service learning requirments. This gave us the chance to truly understand what it is like to be a volunteer, but also the ability to see what his service involves.

The only main problem with the pictures that we gathered, is that the pictures were taken from a distance. We wern't really able to get up close and personal pictures of the "docents" as they are called working, and communicationg with the animals.

I am hoping that with the pictures that Professor O'connell has will be able to fill this void, and any other candid's that we are able to get from the website.

Startubg monday, we will be able to use our mock-ups and take any raw material to try and edit together and make our flash website!

Good Job Everyone!

At the zoo

We went to the Zoo today for our interview with Wayne Wohlschlegel. He was very helpful in providing information about the various volunteer opportunities. We even got in on the experience by helping clean up a workshop space. Wayne discussed his history, what made him start volunteering at the zoo and how he became the manager of volunteer resources. We recorded the interview on Phil’s camera and have a number of great quotes to use of him describing the volunteer activities and involvement in the zoo.

We walked around the zoo and took pictures of the animals. It was cold outside so we did not see a lot of animals in actions many of them were sleeping in their warm shelters. We were lucky in seeing an elephant being bathed by volunteers. The footage which we have collected and the footage with Professor O’Connell is providing for us will make our project interesting and informative of the volunteer opportunities which the zoo has to offer.

In class Monday we will pick out the pictures which we will use in the essay and start cutting up the interview of Wayne Wohlschlegel. We will be using Flash and the non-designer’s web book as a guide during the class.

Visiting The Zoo

I sent out an e-mail to everyone, just to remind everyone to meet at North Campus on sunday at 9:00. Everyone is to bring any form of technology such as cameras, and things that are for audio. We should be able to get some good content, and start to get some good raw data for our story. Just remember this isn't just a regular interview, and we may even plan on visiting the zoo another day if there are other days we can get some volunteers in action. See everyone there!

project zoo updates

We have assigned a time to meet at the zoo for Sunday morning. We are meeting with Wayne, the director of Volunteers. Hopefully once we meet with him or another volunteer will help us get some great footage and audio for us to include in our site.

We also now have the template for our site, thanks to Tacy. Now we have a strong idea of what the site will look like throughout.

During class we looked through the Flash 8 Bible to get familiar with the software...it's pretty lengthy...it will really come in handy when developing our site.

Planning a trip to the zoo

We have contacted a volunteer at the zoo and are in the process of picking a date and time where we can all go and meet him. During the interview we will ask him about what he does and why. We are going to film the volunteer answering our questions. We also changed the format of our project from the map of the zoo to a simple storyboard where the user can click on an exhibit to learn more about it.
-kd

Lets Start to Focus

So that other members of the class can comment. I tried to post a comment to your blog but was prevented because of your settings.
Here is my comment:
It would be nice if when you say you were doing something wrong and now you are doing it right if you expanded on that a little... why was it the wrong approach? There needs to be more thinking and reflection in your blog... Also - it's March 3... You haven't posted anything since Feb 26. There should be several posts a week. Do not leave this to Mondays. There are enough of you to coordinate this.
- RO