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16 week overview
First day of classes Aug. 24 (Mon)
Fall Break Thanksgiving Nov. 23-27 (Mon.-Fri)
Last Day of Classes Dec. 11 (Fri.)
Final exams Dec. 13-18 (Sat.-Thurs.)
Week 1 Aug 24th
At the 1st class all students will describe why they are interested, and
they’ll list their areas of familiarity and expertise. I will describe the 3
to 5 projects we will investigate, introduce participating faculty, and by
use of the Internet, the regional artists and the community development
people who have agreed to participate.
We will organize the gear* for our use in research and production of the
global music videos, and assign relevant discipline tasks to each student
to determine the mix and depth of qualifications of those who sign up.
We will begin to choose projects and establish teams. I will begin an
overview of the economics of the project regions and we’ll assign to the
Econ students research goals for their chosen project.
Week 2 Aug 31st
Devoted to networking with and researching the various social action
projects. Students will form up to five different investigation and
production units of ~ 5 students each and to describe and report back
on internet communications through websites, email, Skype,
First day of classes Aug. 24 (Mon)
Fall Break Thanksgiving Nov. 23-27 (Mon.-Fri)
Last Day of Classes Dec. 11 (Fri.)
Final exams Dec. 13-18 (Sat.-Thurs.)
Week 1 Aug 24th
At the 1st class all students will describe why they are interested, and
they’ll list their areas of familiarity and expertise. I will describe the 3
to 5 projects we will investigate, introduce participating faculty, and by
use of the Internet, the regional artists and the community development
people who have agreed to participate.
We will organize the gear* for our use in research and production of the
global music videos, and assign relevant discipline tasks to each student
to determine the mix and depth of qualifications of those who sign up.
We will begin to choose projects and establish teams. I will begin an
overview of the economics of the project regions and we’ll assign to the
Econ students research goals for their chosen project.
Week 2 Aug 31st
Devoted to networking with and researching the various social action
projects. Students will form up to five different investigation and
production units of ~ 5 students each and to describe and report back
on internet communications through websites, email, Skype,
Facebook, i-chat, Twitter, andother global interconnects with each
of the organizations intheir chosen geographic region.
For example 5 students, one per each department involved, may take on
the Tjupurru Schools Project in Australia and New Zealand, another 5
may join the Children’s Development Agencies in Peru with Jean Pierre
Magnet, a third team to investigate the Kids’ Earth Fund run by Harumi
Torii in Tokyo, Guitars for Guns in Laos, and the same regarding other
For example 5 students, one per each department involved, may take on
the Tjupurru Schools Project in Australia and New Zealand, another 5
may join the Children’s Development Agencies in Peru with Jean Pierre
Magnet, a third team to investigate the Kids’ Earth Fund run by Harumi
Torii in Tokyo, Guitars for Guns in Laos, and the same regarding other
potential projects withLebanon, Brasil, Africa, even Colorado.
Week 3 Sept 7th
Each student representing the various disciplines will begin assessing
the manner in which we will describe the various projects.
This will allow the intra-class multidisciplinary cross-talk to create
awareness of each IPU group’s discoveries and recommendations for
creating appropriate styles and designs of audio-video production.
There will be video and/or written reports required every other week
from each IPU to be shared with all class members.
Week 4 Sept 14th
Students will create user names for their own IPUs, and the names or
titles of the productions, and create all the work and study from an
ownership perspective. The end products will become the property of
the class and the IPUs. We will discuss copyrights, non-profits, and
adhere to the spirit of international law regarding use of downloadable
music, photos, video and other intellectual copyrights.
We will begin to set up individual team websites so that we can easily
traverse the Internet adding data and websites that will participate
with our end goal which will be a finished DVD production. It will be the
purpose of each team to become comfortable editing and increasing the
relevant data and we will make available to the project participants an
easy way for them to communicate, add files, make recommendations,
and allow the viral nature of the daily activity to expand and evolve.
Watching this transformation will be a main purpose of the class, so the
process will truly be the meat and potatoes of our time together.
Week 5 Sept 21st
Students will continue energizing the in-class and international
relationships with the growing network of social action people and
projects. During class time we will organize meetings of students in
each department for consultation regarding their findings and develop
problem-solving techniques. For example the economists will meet with
their counterpart economists in the other IPU’s, video with video, etc.
Don Grusin will monitor each meeting to insure full participation and
document earnest research interest.
Week 6 Sept 28th
Each IPU will create and develop its adopted project plans for using the
music and pictures and other potential media to bring heightened public
attention to these regional causes. The marketing and art students
from each IPU will be responsible for directing those outreach and
publicity tasks, the economists for assessing and presenting the
development scenarios, the music students for sound and music relevant
to the projects, as will the video, photo, film students do the same in
their respective fields. Students will begin to assemble photos, videos,
and music to create a class-wide data-base from which to draw for use
in the creation of the DVD’s. Video and music clips will be created by
the IPU’s, and be combined with clips coming into the database from
each of these regions, played and or photographed by local artists and
videographers, as well as the publicity outreach departments of the
project action groups themselves.
Week 7 Oct 5th
As a kind of mini-midterm, each IPU will report to the class their status:
(1) the historic and current relationship with their project social action
organization,
(2) the timeliness of the new innovations that will be derived from the
interplay between each IPU and it’s target cause and music-video
production,
(3) the hard data media being edited and adapted to the purposes of
each cause.
Without making the inter-IPU’s competitive, I want to encourage a
healthy spirit of making the best DVD possible, and the resulting work
to create hits might be seen to instill greater efforts.
Week 8 Oct 12th
This would be the time for the departmental faculty of the students
represented to join us for a round table discussion of our progress to
present. I will invite the economics, art, film, marketing and music
faculty to weigh in on ideas that will have evolved by our
interdisciplinary interaction. And my students will contribute to the
interdepartmental dialogue, which will surely advance the state of
awareness of the projects and social entrepreneurship and innovation.
At the same time this interaction will require a high level of teamwork
and my plan is for these faculty people to enhance this open-platform
atmosphere with advice about alternative outreach, research methods,
editing techniques, music approaches, etc. In other words this week will
be about feedback and forward. Recess.
Week 9 Oct 19th and Week 10 Oct 26th
The IPUs will edit and mix each of the targeted projects with
assistance from our TA with emphasis on cross-fertilization
of ideas from each of the departments’ areas of expertise. We will need
substantial studio time at production facilities for experimentation
leading completion of these final DVD productions.
This period before the fall break and Thanksgiving will be intensively
productive and will begin the real process of producing and editing files,
creating music, videoing and recording clips that will become part of the
final project DVD’s from each of the regions.
Week 11 Nov 2nd
Each IPU will begin presenting to the class and to their project
affiliates their video clips and and music tracks and related media, .and
the effect of their semester-long
participation in the causes of the target regions’ social action
organizations. Rather than a mid-term exam, this will be the week for
interviews with each student, to assess their grades and to promote one
last effort to make the final productions truly great! Simultaneously, all
IPU teams will continue to research, record, shoot, and develop closer
ties with their project people by use of team websites and direct
conferences with the affiliates.
Preview Presentations of these results will be scheduled in
Boulder/Denver for local feedback and participation, and in the
respective project regions, TBA with the co- participation of those
organizations. We plan to have live conference presentations with the
teams and their organizations, with planning for this latter stage
depending upon the Marketing students public relations outreach during
the semester.
Week 12 Nov 9th
Production and organization of the videos, the music tracks, the
accounting of the project by Art and Film and Marketing. The economic
analysis of the effect of this information on the project areas will be
assessed and written up in a document. It will be videoed, and the
marketing of the final projects will make connections to the US public as
well as international development networks. Continued work on each
video, collection and storage of data files, beginning of press relations
both locally and internationally to prepare for release of the DVD’s to
global audience during the holidays. Interviews with the press and
internet organizations to promote the playing of the DVD’s.
Week 13 Nov 16th
Beginning of community outreach both locally and abroad to enhance
discussions of the evidence in the DVD’s.
Again continued work on each video, collection and storage of data files,
beginning of press relations both locally and internationally to prepare
for release of the DVD’s to global audience during the holidays.
Interviews with the press and Internet organizations to promote the
playing of the DVD’s
Week 14 Nov 23rd– Thanksgiving
Week 15 Nov 30th
Final showings in venues to be arranged by the class and outreach
Week 16 Dec 7th
Last class, last interviews, Press Conferences, meetings with all students
for grades.
Week 3 Sept 7th
Each student representing the various disciplines will begin assessing
the manner in which we will describe the various projects.
This will allow the intra-class multidisciplinary cross-talk to create
awareness of each IPU group’s discoveries and recommendations for
creating appropriate styles and designs of audio-video production.
There will be video and/or written reports required every other week
from each IPU to be shared with all class members.
Week 4 Sept 14th
Students will create user names for their own IPUs, and the names or
titles of the productions, and create all the work and study from an
ownership perspective. The end products will become the property of
the class and the IPUs. We will discuss copyrights, non-profits, and
adhere to the spirit of international law regarding use of downloadable
music, photos, video and other intellectual copyrights.
We will begin to set up individual team websites so that we can easily
traverse the Internet adding data and websites that will participate
with our end goal which will be a finished DVD production. It will be the
purpose of each team to become comfortable editing and increasing the
relevant data and we will make available to the project participants an
easy way for them to communicate, add files, make recommendations,
and allow the viral nature of the daily activity to expand and evolve.
Watching this transformation will be a main purpose of the class, so the
process will truly be the meat and potatoes of our time together.
Week 5 Sept 21st
Students will continue energizing the in-class and international
relationships with the growing network of social action people and
projects. During class time we will organize meetings of students in
each department for consultation regarding their findings and develop
problem-solving techniques. For example the economists will meet with
their counterpart economists in the other IPU’s, video with video, etc.
Don Grusin will monitor each meeting to insure full participation and
document earnest research interest.
Week 6 Sept 28th
Each IPU will create and develop its adopted project plans for using the
music and pictures and other potential media to bring heightened public
attention to these regional causes. The marketing and art students
from each IPU will be responsible for directing those outreach and
publicity tasks, the economists for assessing and presenting the
development scenarios, the music students for sound and music relevant
to the projects, as will the video, photo, film students do the same in
their respective fields. Students will begin to assemble photos, videos,
and music to create a class-wide data-base from which to draw for use
in the creation of the DVD’s. Video and music clips will be created by
the IPU’s, and be combined with clips coming into the database from
each of these regions, played and or photographed by local artists and
videographers, as well as the publicity outreach departments of the
project action groups themselves.
Week 7 Oct 5th
As a kind of mini-midterm, each IPU will report to the class their status:
(1) the historic and current relationship with their project social action
organization,
(2) the timeliness of the new innovations that will be derived from the
interplay between each IPU and it’s target cause and music-video
production,
(3) the hard data media being edited and adapted to the purposes of
each cause.
Without making the inter-IPU’s competitive, I want to encourage a
healthy spirit of making the best DVD possible, and the resulting work
to create hits might be seen to instill greater efforts.
Week 8 Oct 12th
This would be the time for the departmental faculty of the students
represented to join us for a round table discussion of our progress to
present. I will invite the economics, art, film, marketing and music
faculty to weigh in on ideas that will have evolved by our
interdisciplinary interaction. And my students will contribute to the
interdepartmental dialogue, which will surely advance the state of
awareness of the projects and social entrepreneurship and innovation.
At the same time this interaction will require a high level of teamwork
and my plan is for these faculty people to enhance this open-platform
atmosphere with advice about alternative outreach, research methods,
editing techniques, music approaches, etc. In other words this week will
be about feedback and forward. Recess.
Week 9 Oct 19th and Week 10 Oct 26th
The IPUs will edit and mix each of the targeted projects with
assistance from our TA with emphasis on cross-fertilization
of ideas from each of the departments’ areas of expertise. We will need
substantial studio time at production facilities for experimentation
leading completion of these final DVD productions.
This period before the fall break and Thanksgiving will be intensively
productive and will begin the real process of producing and editing files,
creating music, videoing and recording clips that will become part of the
final project DVD’s from each of the regions.
Week 11 Nov 2nd
Each IPU will begin presenting to the class and to their project
affiliates their video clips and and music tracks and related media, .and
the effect of their semester-long
participation in the causes of the target regions’ social action
organizations. Rather than a mid-term exam, this will be the week for
interviews with each student, to assess their grades and to promote one
last effort to make the final productions truly great! Simultaneously, all
IPU teams will continue to research, record, shoot, and develop closer
ties with their project people by use of team websites and direct
conferences with the affiliates.
Preview Presentations of these results will be scheduled in
Boulder/Denver for local feedback and participation, and in the
respective project regions, TBA with the co- participation of those
organizations. We plan to have live conference presentations with the
teams and their organizations, with planning for this latter stage
depending upon the Marketing students public relations outreach during
the semester.
Week 12 Nov 9th
Production and organization of the videos, the music tracks, the
accounting of the project by Art and Film and Marketing. The economic
analysis of the effect of this information on the project areas will be
assessed and written up in a document. It will be videoed, and the
marketing of the final projects will make connections to the US public as
well as international development networks. Continued work on each
video, collection and storage of data files, beginning of press relations
both locally and internationally to prepare for release of the DVD’s to
global audience during the holidays. Interviews with the press and
internet organizations to promote the playing of the DVD’s.
Week 13 Nov 16th
Beginning of community outreach both locally and abroad to enhance
discussions of the evidence in the DVD’s.
Again continued work on each video, collection and storage of data files,
beginning of press relations both locally and internationally to prepare
for release of the DVD’s to global audience during the holidays.
Interviews with the press and Internet organizations to promote the
playing of the DVD’s
Week 14 Nov 23rd– Thanksgiving
Week 15 Nov 30th
Final showings in venues to be arranged by the class and outreach
Week 16 Dec 7th
Last class, last interviews, Press Conferences, meetings with all students
for grades.
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