Un-official blog for Bill Castell
February 28, 2012 at 5:13 pm
First, we thank Dan F show showing us his latest house music creation, and look forward to more.
FOLEY – a quick link to that sound effect man from “Police Academy.”
MORE IMPORTANTLY we listened to Dr. A’s musical composition.
We’ll review your written projects shortly, and start recording soon there after.
Mr. C
February 24, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Today, we begin work on looking at foley artists, and a project for a drama class creating sound scapes. This particular video shows all of the creativity and hard work
that goes into making something seem transparent.
February 7, 2012 at 2:41 pm
It took over a year to process and get buy in...and now it is going into the student handbook.
Boston University Academy Technology Mission Statement
The mission of the Boston University Technology Department is to educate students, faculty and staff to effectively use technology in the support of teaching and learning. Upon graduating from the Academy, students will be able to use modern technological tools to research, synthesize, and communicate information and ideas creatively and precisely.
January 12, 2010 at 11:58 am
NAIS - really a great organization. I've been looking hard at technology as it relates to our curriculum, and these pages help inform my direction....
http://www.nais.org/about/seriesdoc.cfm?ItemNumber=149157&sn.ItemNumber=146810
November 16, 2009 at 10:31 am
I've come to understand the intellectual joy in attending these all school meetings at BUA. Today's was by Professor Sam Kaufman from COM...http://www.bu.edu/com/about/faculty/sam_kauffmann.shtml. Very hard way to start the day, but the exposure of our students to this thinking and creativity makes everything worth it. I especially enjoyed his comments about documentary film making, in that a documenaty is not fact but a selection of powerful facts that are meant to instill action (social in this case) about a topic. To hear the voices of children with AIDS is very powerful.
November 3, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Creativity as important as literacy in this world we are preparing our children for...
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Such a great talk
October 29, 2009 at 9:58 am
Thursday ASM run around. Amazing, even after checking with the ops team at GSU the VCR does not work. Professor Loman gave an outstanding talk about the history and origins of Seasame Street - great talk. I think what people miss is how much research went into the preparation of the show, and how much writting was involved. In any event to get this working, I had to dig an old VCR out of the storage room and jack it into the projector system...with a wireless mic sitting on top of the one speaker...but it worked. Never take anything for granted, it can always break down. Always have a back up.
Keep your bike tuned at BU Fridays from 1-4pm
http://bubikes.bostonbiker.org/projects/tool-shop/
October 16, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Welcome to the new BUA TechBlog.
I'll be posting items of note and other related socio-technologic trivia in this space.
Enjoy!
Mr. C
