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Cliff Duffey To Do

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Staff TO DO: Your Big Picture

A. DITC Development
10.22.02 1. Scan the Sadler and the Perkins articles (get from me) and make into PDF files. Use the G3 Powerbook with the scanner to do this.
2. Make new poster for chalPhyS.mov with Phil Sadler. Include this in the material for the disk burn.
3. Troubleshoot problems with posters displaying and then disappearing.
4. Change the names of the buttons for poster in menu31/demo1 to Earl Demos, Ed Demos, Bridget Demos.
5. Redo posters that are fuzzy – use DVD movies or better to capture frames of art.
6. Work with Ben on figuring out whether DITC 10.21.02 is playing on Netscape or not.
7. Load Final Cut 3.0 on G3 laptop.
8. Create posters for Toni, Sadler, and Perkins.
9. Create 2 artwork figures in Canvas.

B. Research Tasks
10.19.02.02 1. Find any articles that study designers using simulations versus some other design methods (hands-on, paper drawings, etc). Refer to Kimbell's article comparing CAD-driven designing versus paper-based drawings.
2. 9.21.02 Ask GaTech reference librarian which databases to search for articles on tinkering with mechanical objects. Engineering and education databases, cognitive science and learning sciences.
3. 10.21.02 Give me the list of the NSF regional distribution centers that dole out professional development materials on newly created curriculum.
4. Look up best review article by Marcia Linn at UC-Berkeley concerning the use of contraversies in teacher professional development. Ask librarian for best database for topic. Possibly use ERIC.
5. Create report on Whyville Design Software.
6. Find Nat'l Board for Professional Teaching Standards website. Look for: model videos, how they are used, whether they address design tasks, how the train administrators with them, and if there is a parents edition.

C. Office Work
On-Going STORE all audio/video equipment and charge all batteries.
On-Going Organize all audio/video equipment and accessories (wires, batteries, tapes) for shoots.
10.19.02. 1. Update Excel list, Movie MasterList v.4 by checking for any outdated movies or sequences that need to be edited.
3. 9.17.02 Collect names of all the manila folders. Then, incorporate Lisa Frontado's suggestions, when you receive them by email, oni organizing headings for folders in vertical files.
10.22.02 Compare Bridgette HD with Bridgette HD Backup

D. Field Work