Museums and Community Collaborations Abroad

Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: Engaging Italian and American Teens in Planetarium Technology

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Documentary footage (Chelsea)

Link.

End of Christmas holidays, the project continues!!

Hello, I'm Manuela! I take care of video editing, which we began to resume before the Christmas holidays, where we, the Italian team were recording them and we are also "actors". Some scenes are very fun to shoot, others a little embarrassing, but it is a beautiful experience to go along with my mates! I'm enjoying very much. I'm curious to see what they've accomplished those of the American team, since their party is more artistic, and from what I saw they are very good in this field! I await the end of the project to see the results. =) Hi guys!

End of Christmas holidays, the project continues!!

Hello, I'm Manuela! I take care of video editing, which we began to resume before the Christmas holidays, where we, the Italian team were recording them and we are also "actors". Some scenes are very fun to shoot, others a little embarrassing, but it is a beautiful experience to go along with my mates! I'm enjoying very much. I'm curious to see what they've accomplished those of the American team, since their party is more artistic, and from what I saw they are very good in this field! I await the end of the project to see the results. =) Hi guys!

American team's trip to Sci Port in Shreveport, LA

Hi! This is Chase Whitney, one of music/video editing guys from the American team. This is a video I made of some footage I shot of our team's trip to Sci Port, the planetarium in Shreveport. Enjoy!

Here is the link in case the video I embedded below does not work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Y5Uhzg-iA

Friday, January 8, 2010

Eleonora and the snow at Infini.to

Hi! Also the second day coming back from holidays is stessfull...anyway Happy new year to you all. I hope to see all the progresses of your work as soon as possible. Now is snowing...this is the view from our planetarium...Ciao! Eleonora

Oscar back from Holidays (and a podcast)

Hello people!
Today here we are under snow! I love it... am I childish? :-)

Anyway we took a loooong vacation for Christmas time and yesterday we get back to work and had our weekly meeting. I find very nice to discover every time how much we laugh during video shots and general work. Isn't fun a good indicator that everything is going in the right direction? Time will tell... ;-)

We're also working with the staff to the itinerary for the Italian part of the exchange. It will be later May and hopefully here we'll have hot weather and sunny days, so we're planning many outdoors activities; more on this subject later this month...

Lastly, I link here: http://podcast.vallauri.edu/groups/podcasts/weblog/3b0b1/Radio_ttivit%C3%A0__037_-_Progetto_Planetario.html a podcast with an interview that I had with Emanuele about the project for our school web radio. It's Italian language, but maybe understandable for some of you..

Greetings and see you soon... and happy new year!!!

Oscar

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Hi! by Adele

Hi to everyone! I'm Adele! Today we have had a meeting for filming some scenes! We've had a very good time :) I hope you can see our performances soon and I hope that you will like them!
waiting a skype conversation, byeee!!

ps happy new year!!

(Giorgia) Back to work after Christmas holidays!

Hi to everyone!
The first day after a long Christmas holiday is quite stressful, but luckily I could escape from my office: this afternoon I went to Vallauri to join the students; I saw them filming some scenes inside the school, they are really nice! Then they arranged further meetings in order to film other scenes and other situations... but I don't want to reveal anything, I want them to write down their ideas here...

Hope to see you all soon, maybe through skype or maybe through Youtube! (Matteo told me he will try to post the videos they made also on Youtube, so now I'm waiting!)
See you!
Giorgia

Progress!

Hey guys!

We've been filming on various locations for the past few days, from the forest to urban city settings. Our production is going very well and soon we'll edit. Our documentarians are busy editing videos of our team working and other team members have been taking pictures, so look forward to that soon! Hope everything is going well on your end.

Courtney

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

greg's general musings

Wow...I haven't posted in a while. I'm very impressed with the variety of video postings. I've posted most on my Facebook - I brag to everyone I can about the amazing talent the students have and it clearly shows in the videos. I was blown away at Karla's vocals. I am soooooo jealous! :-). I can't wait to hear her on the final show.

On Thursday (jan 8) I'm traveling to LSMSA to provide D3 training. In the beginning all the students had basic training, but this session will be with the D3 scriptors. Hopefully, I can get a sneak preview into the show developed by the students. My goal is to refresh our memories of using text, video and slides, and provide whatever else is necessary as best as I can. I'll have to get up early (groan) but it's worth it. The last time I was at LSMSA, I got to see most if not all the Italian team. I still think its amazing at how much progress has been made despite being on opposite sides of the world. so cool!

I hope to get my passport soon. I've been to the post office several times and each time I forgot to bring two photos of me. Next time, I'm taking pictures of Craig with me...lol!

By the way, I noticed several Facebook links, so I might as well join the club. My facebook address is, here, I think. If not, just look me up under Greg Andrews, Shreveport. I'll admit I don't check it often, but I do my best to respond to comments, postings, etc. Plus, for those of you wondering who Craig is, you'll see him.

I think that's it for now. Looking forward to Thursday.

Cheers,
Greg