Tactical Media_03/05/08

TACTICAL MEDIA
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
5-7 pm
Taylor Center


Agenda

I. Competencies negotiation
II. Workshop Schedule Planning
III. Roundtable discussion


Attendance

Fred
Yvonne
Sara
Trey
Aaron
Rene
Jay

Fred handed out a sheet that has an outlines of how to get the 3 competencies in Tactical Media.

Fred pulled up the tactical Media Web Blog and started talking about how we can complete the 3 competencies:

1- Media and Community Building
2- Communication Policy
3- Developing a Media Strategy
*** (And possible negotiation of an additional production Competency) ***

Rene talked about his MBTA community activity trying to improve the bus service (There is a podcast on NPR about the subject) he also mentioned that they are going to have a press conference at the transportation Building in Boston Tomorrow (March 6th)
Rene talked about the possibility of burning the podcast in CD’s and distributing them, and subject moved to whether this would be a violation to copyrights.
Fred talked about Copyrights how they are a bundle of rights that can be negotiated. Fred also talked about trade mark and patent as other forms of IP rights (Intellectual property).

Fred clarified the major points that were listed in the sheet he distributed at the beginning of the class; gave us few minutes to go over it and asked us if it’s clear to all of us. Affirmative response from the group.

He talked about how he’s interested in us knowing how communication policy are made and he talked about the link.

He moved talking about Media and community building and how Media is empowering citizens.

He gave us the options to either choose writing a research paper or do the research in form of production (audio, video, web…) about a subject that we are interested in as long as it would fit the criteria.

We had a round table discussing availabilities for students’ volunteering in leading the teaching of certain classes and we came the following workshop schedule planning:


03/12/08

Fred will talk about the theory of political policy and community media
Rene will be provide training on iMovie (½ hr)
Final Cut Pro will also be discussed (45 minutes)

March 15 to 23 (Saturday to Sunday) Spring Vacation

03/26/08

Basic Digital Literacy Presented by Yvonne

04/02/08

Online Media Sharing and pod-casting Presented by Peter Neudel

04/09/08

Photoshop + Adobe ImageReady Presented by Yvonne and Trey (2 hrs)

04/16/08

Adobe Dreamweaver Presented by Trey (2 hrs) **Class will start @ 4:00 pm

04/23/08

Flash Presented by Trey (2 hrs) ** Class will start @ 4:00 pm


Next Note Taker: Aaron