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secondary schools make studies of natural sciences at universities more attractive.
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The document discusses how media technologies were used at different stages of creating a teaser trailer. In the research stage, websites like YouTube and blogs were used to find examples and get ideas. Planning involved storyboarding on Amazon Storyteller and using Word and Google Drive for call sheets and risk assessments. Filming used a Canon DSLR camera, and editing was done in Final Cut Pro with effects. Photoshop and Illustrator created the poster and magazine cover. Feedback led to changing the soundtrack from Garage Band to free sounds online. Evaluation involved analyzing the trailer in iMovie, and using Prezi and PowerPoint for presentations.
The document discusses costume ideas for characters in a film titled "EXile". It proposes that the Interrogator wear all black to represent the police force. Girl 1 will wear purple to appear nasty and like a red herring. Girl 2 will wear white and jeans to seem innocent. The hooded figure, who is the real killer, will be disguised in a hood during flashbacks in the opening title sequence.
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Projektovy zamer prirodovedne digitarium v bratislaveSpektrum Media
Project Intention - Natural Sciences Digitarium in Bratislava. Key Objective: Through interactive educational excursions, lectures and projections for primary and
secondary schools make studies of natural sciences at universities more attractive.
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video explains, Caine built a gaming arcade almost entirely out of cardboard and opened it up for business in the storefront of his father’s auto parts store. This story provides an excellent example of how characteristics of Caine’s personal identity might affect how and what he learned from the specific experiences portrayed. The video story identifies the cultural values that nurtured Caine’s curiosity and inventiveness, and you can readily analyze the factors contributing to his “funds of knowledge” going into the project. After viewing Caine’s amazing story, reflect on the different skills he learned and applied as he completed his “project,” and consider how his personal identity shaped, and was shaped by, his amazing experiences. To help you better understand the underlying influences affecting Caine’s learning experiences, read Chapter 7 of your primary text.
This chapter presents information and examples associated with how social class can have an influence on student achievement and behavior in school. You also need to read the article by Moll, Amanti, Neff, and Gonzales (1992) regarding
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about how family and cultural backgrounds impact students and their families.
Initial Post:
View the
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Links to an external site.
video and construct an initial discussion post that addresses the following questions:
What external factors influenced Caine’s ability to successfully create his arcade (e.g., what role did his father play in encouraging his project?)?
What internal factors influenced Caine’s ability to successfully create his arcade? Consider his world view, values, and funds of knowledge as internal factors.
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Framework for 21st Century LearningLinks to an external site.
web page?
·
Instructor Guidance
· Week 1
· Week Overview
· This is a dynamic and important course comprising part of your journey through an education graduate program. It is important because it is designed to connect you to the most important source of understanding, guidance, improvement and challenge in the field of education: you. Regardless of how many years you have studied or practiced in the field of education, you are already an expert in how YOU learn. You possess a lifetime of case studies that illustrate clearly specific strategies to help you learn things well, and strategies that may not work for you. You discern for yourself what is relevant, what makes sense, what kind of feedback helps you the most, and what motivates you to learn things that are rather difficult.
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1. Weaver 1
Project Summary:
Vision:
Creating a science center for children in southeastern Lancaster county Pennsylvania.
Promoting positive educational values and encouraging academic excellence.
Providing a center for academic field trips to local schools.
Helping young people become excited about science.
Mission:
Establishing exhibits that are hands on, engaging, and interactive.
Designing classes that represent relevant science topics.
Daily science demonstrations throughout the day.
Providing educated and knowledgeable staff that are interactive.
Core values:
Devotion: We are devoted to science and the ability it has to positively impact lives.
Innovation: We will always strive to improve and reach excellence.
Proficiency: We demonstrate Proficiency throughout all of our work.
Eminence: We will provide eminent experiences that contribute to learning
2. Weaver 2
Project Introduction:
Science, what really is science? According to The University of California “It is both a body of
knowledge and a Process” (Understanding Science). Science has been around since the beginning
of time. Historically everything that we have today can all be attributed back to science in some
form or another. It plays an important role in your life every day. All of the things that we take
for granted such as: electricity, automobiles, and the development of modern medicine can all
be attributed to science (Seefeldt 120). When you look at all of the incredible things in this life I
believe that it is important to take notice of just how we got here. If it was not for the great
science community that has been developed over many years’ society would not be the way it is
today.
One of the key motivations for this project is the idea of allowing children to gain a respect
and an interest for the incredible power of science. Many young children don’t experience
science, so they fail to recognize that it can be exciting, useful, and ongoing (Understanding
Science). If one looks at the world today they can see a significant amount of time being spent
on things such as television, cellphones, online games, etc. While these different tools can be
relevant to academics and learning, many times young people take them for granted. They forget
to show the appropriate respect for just how much time and energy was put into developing
things like cell phones and computers. The science center will help to encompass a new desire
for learning in young children that will last for generations (Markowitz 45). Having access to a place
of learning like this could help to address the problem of overconsumption of technology that
faces our society today. The center could allow the children to focus their time on creating things
at home, and help them to take a more hands on approach to daily living (Markowitz 60).
3. Weaver 3
The scope of this project is not to make me a very rich man, but instead, my vision is that
the center will become a place of memories and learning experiences. While this science center
will be geared mainly toward children, I feel that it is important to mention that there will also
be many interactive displays that are orientated to adults of any age as well. My goal is to provide
a place where field trips and class trips can be scheduled on a daily basis. I also want to have the
center booked year around. Getting the first model of the science center built and running is the
number one priority right now, however I am also looking at the future, and I am beginning to
really focus on the scope of the project. I see enormous opportunities in the near future. After
the successful opening and operation of this first science center it is my goal to build my model
into a state wide experience and eventually have a minimum of five different locations within the
first ten years of being open.
Your foundation is probably asking the question why am I the right person to make such
a large project come to life. The number one reason that I believe I am the right man for the job
would be my passion for science and children. Obviously passion is not enough to convince your
organization that this is an investment worth taking, so let me take a moment to tell you a little
about my background and history. Looking back on my early years growing up I was always
fascinated with science and the way things worked. It didn’t take me long until I began creating
scientific inventions of my own. In high school I was always a significant part of the different
science activities and clubs that were provided. In college I attended Harvard University for six
years earning degrees in both Science and Child Psychology. I also obtained a degree in business
marketing with a minor in management studies. I believe that my experience and understanding
4. Weaver 4
of how children’s minds work along with my extensive knowledge in business makes me the
perfect candidate to build and operate a science center.
5. Weaver 5
Plan of work:
1. Defining the Target Market
Before opening: Find out what kind of building size will be adequate for the age group
and demographic of people that will be served. Develop surveys to distribute among the
community to find out the levels of interest in the project.
2. Forming a Board of Directors
Form a committee of highly educated and experienced individuals to assist with the
introductory stage of the project. This committee will be responsible for picking out
people to hold the positions of: President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer.
3. Incorporation Stage and Tax exempt stage
The company is a 501 C-3 nonprofit therefore a trusted Attorney of law will be hired to
assist in the legal ventures. The Attorney will be responsible to file incorporation
documents with the Secretary of State. It is expensive to file the papers, however since
the company is nonprofit many attorneys will work at a discounted rate. The Attorney
will also assist in filing paper work for tax exempt status since we are a nonprofit.
4. Create a Business Plan.
A plan will be developed by the board of directors outlining a specific plan of action. It
will show exactly how the Science Center will operate internally over the next five years.
Management structure: Human Resource professionals will select a variety of
experienced individuals with exceptional qualities to make up the management
team. The managers will help with the recruitment of potential employees.
Marketing and Advertising: An experienced marketing team will be hired to work
full time for the organization. They will inform the public of the opportunities
that the Science center has available. They will also begin the process of earning
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brand recognition and establish a noteworthy name for the center. The
marketing team will be completely responsible for all advertising.
SWOT Analysis: The Marketing and Advertising team will strategically develop a
plan defining the organizations Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, And
Threats. This Analysis will enable the board of directors to have useful insight on
the steps moving forward. It will help outline what will and won’t work.
Day to Day Operations: Board of directors will assign a committee in charge of
outlining the day to day operations of the Science center. They will outline the
cost of admission, Discounts for school groups, discounts for senior citizens etc.
They will also outline the hours of operation as well as a detailed schedule of
science events that will occur on a daily basis.
5. Developing a budget
The budgeting committee guided by the CFO will be tasked with creating a six-year
budgeting plan. It will be an in depth look at what the annual income expenses will be
per year as well as the expected yearly revenue. The completed budget plan will have
both an operating budget a capital budget.
6. Locating the Correct Real estate
Instead of choosing a building that is already in existence we plan on creating blueprints
for a brand new building. The building committee will be responsible for hiring a
trustworthy architect with experience in this type of building design. We feel that
incorporating our ideas into a new building is the best idea for moving forward.
7. Contributions
One of the biggest parts to any not for profit organizations is the contributions. The
Public Relations team will work to secure funding for the beginning of the project and
they will also begin to lockdown donors and large educational companies. I believe the
educational value of the organization will help to attract potential donor.
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Detailed Project Execution Schedule:
The following chart is an in depth analysis of the estimated time that it will take to complete
each individual task. It is our goal to have the science center up and running as soon as
possible. The plan is currently to begin process early in April of 2016 and to have the project
completed by early December in 2017.
Schedule chart
1-Apr
1-Mar
1-Apr
15-Apr
1-Jun
1-Aug
15-Aug
25-Aug
1-Sep
12-Sep
1-Nov
1-Dec
1-Jan
1-Feb
1-Dec
30
30
15
15
60
15
10
10
12
14
30
30
30
303
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6-Apr 15-Jul 23-Oct 31-Jan 10-May 18-Aug 26-Nov 6-Mar
Target Market
Board of Directors
Incorporation Stage
Tax Exemtion Stage
Create a Buisness plan
Management Structure
Marketing Advertising
SWOT Analysis
Day To Day Operations
Develop a Budget
Real Estate
Contributins
Hire Contractors
Begin Construction
Open doors to Public
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Ongoing Expense Budget:
Month Employees/Staff
Fundraising
events
Building
Maintenance
exhibit
installations
Insurance
and legal
services
Jan 10,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 400.00 3,300.00
Feb 10,000.00 1,200.00 4,000.00 300.00 3,300.00
Mar 12,000.00 3,000.00 4,500.00 8,000.00 3,300.00
Apr 12,500.00 3,000.00 4,600.00 200.00 3,300.00
May 13,000.00 3,220.00 4,700.00 2,000.00 3,300.00
Jun 13,900.00 3,500.00 4,800.00 1,200.00 4,000.00
Jul 15,000.00 3,600.00 5,000.00 800.00 4,000.00
Aug 16,000.00 4,000.00 5,600.00 5,000.00 4,000.00
Sep 17,000.00 4,400.00 6,000.00 900.00 4,300.00
Oct 17,500.00 5,000.00 6,200.00 650.00 5,000.00
Nov 17,000.00 5,550.00 6,000.00 2,000.00 5,000.00
Dec 17,000.00 6,000.00 300.00 4,500.00 5,000.00
Total 170,900.00 43,470.00 55,700.00 25,950.00 47,800.00
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2,000.00
4,000.00
6,000.00
8,000.00
10,000.00
12,000.00
14,000.00
16,000.00
18,000.00
20,000.00
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Monthy Expenses
Employees/Staff
Fundraising events
Building Maintence Electric, heat
ETC
exibit instalations
Insurance and ongoing legal fees
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Initial Expenses
This excel spread sheet is an economic look at the different initial expenses that will be
associated with the startup of the science center. All of the different financial aspects of this
budget have been evaluated by experts in the field of accounting and economics.
April 19, 2017
Initial Expense Budget
CATEGORY Labor cost Material Cost Additional Cost
Define Target Market 5,000.00 500.00 500.00
Hire Board of Directors 4,000.00 2,000.00 2,000.00
Lawyer fees 20,000.00 2,000.00 350.00
Create Business Plan 2,000.00 870.00 250.00
SWOT Analysis 4,000.00 1,575.00 365.00
Exhibit Cost 90,000.00 500,000.00 5,600.00
Marketing/Public Relations 5,500.00 2,500.00 3,000.00
Locate Real Estate 6,000.00 1,075.00 1,000.00
Hire Contractors 2,500.00 2,000.00 500.00
Construction of Building 1,000,000.00 3,000,000.00 650,000.00
Total Expenses 1,139,000.00 3,512,520.00 663,565.00
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Conclusion:
Critics often say that children who are interacting with science museums might appear
to be having a great time, but that doesn’t nessicary mean that they are learning important
things to help them later in life. At the science center our number one goal is to promote core
educational values with every interactive exhibit that we have available. We will blend fun with
learning to make sure that every possible learning outcome that people take away from our
center is something of importance and value that will have lasting effects.
My hope is that your foundation will be able to find a common ground with our beliefs
and core values about science. I believe that together we will be able to make a positive
difference in the world of academics and science. Every opportunity for learning is a very
important opportunity that should not be taken lightly. The opportunity for your firm to invest
in the lives of young children is very exciting. It is something that will not go unnoticed.
Thank you for taking the time to review this proposal. I think that there is potential for a
great business relationship in the future. I hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Lane M Weaver
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Markowitz, Gerald E, and David Rosner. Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's
Children. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Print.
Seefeldt, Carol, and Alice Galper. Active Experiences for Active Children. Upper Saddle River, N.J:
Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2002. Print.
Understanding Science. 2016. University of California Museum of Paleontology. 3 January 2016
http://www.understandingscience.org.