Monday – Bill Gates

Three Microsoft Examples.

• New York- Mott Hall, Office & Notebook computer available
  100% of the time.
• Jackson Hole WY Certified Education Program (AATP) for NT and
  95 Program at High school
• Blacksburg VA “Most connected Community” Linking schools to
  community including Elementary Children to Pensioners

Tuesday – Keynote

Pre keynote announcements: Student Technology Leaders

Info available at
http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest

Plan for Cyberfair 98, Community day In October

Chris Held Bellvue SD

• Philosophy = Powerful Ideas
• Epistemology Powerful Learning
• Pedagogy , Powerful Teaching
• Technology Powerful Tools

‘All Things are connected”

Integrated Technology Classroom with 4:1, Kids to Computer ratio

Also includes Camcorder ,Lego-Logo, Laptops,

Wednesday – Jennifer James, Cultural Anthropologist

Author “Thinking in the future tense”

Getting computers and technology is not the major problem.

Rich Poor split is not the major problem eventually either the
disparity resolves itself or the poor defect toward anarchy.

The gap is a behavioral.”The Truth will set you free but first
it will make you miserable” Technology can be a great equalizer
economically. Mass migration can be a destabilizer but technology
allows people to prosper where they are.

Progress is the Concentration of energy

Skills of teachers vs intelligence of teachers

Economics are the efficient Use of energy

Concurrent Sessions

• Mon, Jun 30, 1997
• Tue, Jul 1, 1997
• Wed, Jul 2, 1997

Felicia Oram – What Does Television “Edutainment” Do for the
Classroom

Editor for Bill Nye (Post Production)

Collaborative Process

Tv + science + entertainment

Mission to raise science curiosity In 4-7 grade when kids
start to turn away from science.

This Is also the age where student make independent Tv
choices.

No we don’t give out t-shirts

Companion to classroom environment. 1 subject Per show + a
curriculum path for season.

Curriculum and science advisors pick 2 to 3 concepts.

Background sheets 10-12 pages. Comedy and science writers
cneate content and directors rewrite everything.

Show Organization

• Start with tease.
• Continuous rotation not a 1 time experience.
• Bill Nye open
• The Walk
• Big demo
• Anything short that doesn’t have Bill in it
• Rest of Show is fast Bill and fast kids
• “Check it out”
• “way cool scientist”
• ” Music video”
• prat falls
• see-say technigue
• chanel surf feel, static and jump cuts

Funded by NSF, PBS, Disney

Off air rights for teachers to tape and use in classrooms

2 versions one for PBS no Commercials other from syndication
(3min off)

Syndication has Shorter tease and some other cuts.

18:1 shoot rate can be as high as 30:1

4 directors and 2nd film unit

Avid video (Mac)

Cut List made using compress low res Video Using frame index. This
is a compromise of Resolution vs Storage. 32GB barely holds 1show.
500-800 edit per show. Digital Editing can give you the temptation to
do everything. The final adjustments boost primary Colours to give
cartoon look.

Well Connected Educator- Gwen Solomon

Beyond the firewall

66% of corporations are Inside Intranets (1996 survey)

TCP/IP-Content Irrelevent

fully scallable and cross platform

Info Services

Clients – freely availible

Authoring tools-

• Open standards
• Ubiquitous
• Ease of use
• Scalable

Guy Kawasaki – Rules for Revolutionaries

1. Don’t Worry be Crappy
2. Churn baby Churn
3. Make what you do a cause
4. Market Share death Magnet
5. High and to the right
6. Let 1000 flowed bloom
7. Eat like abird shit like an elephant
8. Never ask people to do soneth iis you wouldn’t do
9. Suck down n or accross but not up
10. Never let the bozos grind you down