okay, i lied

I'm not going to do interviews this week. Mostly because I forgot about them. Instead, I'm going to work on interviews questions. I'm planning on interviewing Mr. Z. next week as well as a couple of students/groups about their DIY project.

Questions I will ask Mr. Z.:

• How do you define the DIY/20% time?
• Why did you decide to do this project with your class?
• Do you think this has helped your class learn?
• How has the project helped you as a teacher?
• What do you think about implementing 20% time into the school system?

Questions I will ask to students:

• How do you define DIY/20% time?
• How has it helped you academically?
• What did you learn about yourself?
• What did you learn about your topic?
• What would you change if you were to do this project again?
• Did your project succeed or fail? Why?

As well as creating interview questions, I've started working on the intro. I'm still not completely sure whether or not there will be a voice over, but I'm warming up to the idea. I think doing a voice over will boost the video just a bit and make it seem a bit more professional. I will at least attempt to do a voice over.  

POA

At this point in the project, I'm sort of behind. I'll need to ask permission from Twitterees to use their quotes to put it in the video. I also need to decide on a format for the video.

For the video, I could either do a voice over or text-on-screen to relay information. I think that I prefer to display the text instead of doing a voice over because I don't really want to do a voice over. However, I think that doing a voice over will make the video so much better. Text-on-screen gives the Windows Movie Maker, blue screen, rly bad mispellings youtube videos. Voice overs are much more professional and even more personal.

The video will be from an objective point of view. I will not be speaking from the perspective of a student or teacher. It will be an objective view on the 20% project. For the actual content of the video, I think it mostly be visuals and pictures. However, I do plan on doing a quick intro clip of the class working on a Friday and possibly an interview with Mr. Z.

nop i changed my mind again

I'm planning on changing my DIY project, again. Instead of doing a food blog which apparently I'm too lazy to keep up with I will create a project on the DIY project. It will be a 20% project on 20%.
This idea comes from my participation on last weekend's twitter #caedchat. What I noticed were that there were a lot of questions about the 20% project and people were really interested in it. What I'm planning to do is create a documentary type of video that explains the 20% project. It will be short, about 3-5 minutes.

What this video will address is:

• What 20% time is
• Why it's a benefit
• The problems of 20% time
• Other FAQs

I think this project will mostly be run from my own questions about the project as well as some questions asked on Twitter. To do this project, I will need to research the 20% time itself and find facts about it. I am also planning to interview teachers who participated in the Twitter chat.

What I think this will do is help teachers/students consider a 20% project. It will also spread information about a really cool project so that's always a plus.