Technology Projects
Technology Projects
Four seniors are working on projects related to technology this year.
Website Creation
My project is to make two websites: one for a online contest called Cyberfair, and the other is this one with my senior class. So far I have learned new skills and am on track, showing that I can meet the due dates. These websites will soon go out to the world to view, really showing that we can be global citizens. --Muir student
Podcasting
The name podcasting was inspired by the Apple Computer Corporation’s iPod.This term refers to any software and hardware that allows us to automatically download files for easy and convenient listening. Podcasting is a really simple process. A podcaster does not need much experience or education about it. All that it really is, is just recording yourself speaking. What a person would need for podcasting would be a microphone. Whether it is already installed in the computer/laptop or if it is separate, either one works. I podcast school news to our students and teachers. --Muir student
Technology Troubleshooting
In 1685 the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz experimented with many mechanical devices meant to do arithmetic. Even though it isn’t known if the device ever worked perfectly, it had many ideas later inspired others inventions...
Probably the most important person in the computer era was William Bill H. Gates. Together with Paul Allen, they created a business based on computer programming. In 1975, Gates and Allen created the Operating System (OS) Microsoft Windows. Like any other OS organizes and tells the hardware part of the computer how to function and how to run different applications. OS’s in fact changed the way computers are used. Bill Gates is currently a chairman of Microsoft Corporation.
Now computers are better, faster, and more reliable. The technology field is growing fast and
Not everybody is adapting at that speed. That is why my senior project will help in a way that can make sure we are taking full advantage of the computes that we have. I will make a trouble-shooting manual that will explain the reader what happen, why and explain step-by-step how to fix it and what to and not to do to have the same problem. This manual will be a hard copy and it will also be electrically (in PDF Format) posted the World Wide Web. I believe that it is really important to know what I’ll explain in the manual to be able make a batter use of the computers we have. --Muir student
Producing a Newsmagazine
Senior Project Background paper
The show “60 Minutes” is an American television newsmagazine program which has been on air since 1968.It was created by CBS’s television news producer Don Hewitt. It has won a whopping seventy eight Emmys (as of 2007), been holding on top rated tv ratings for years. The program has become the text book example of the television news magazine genre.
A newsmagazine generally runs weekly and contains segments on currents events going on locally, nationally, or globally. Each segment is more like a mini documentary containing in-depth with more substance and context than stories found in newspaper or cable news which usually just runs 30 second snippets of news stories. In a way it sort supplements the cable news format’s quantity over quality approach to stories.
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I intend on providing a similar service to that 60 Minutes provided to the nation, exclusively to Muir. It is my hope that this video magazine informs students and staff alike to the lesser shown side of what Muir’s various grade’s projects and to news stories around the world. While there might be some stark differences between Donald Shepard’s “60 Minutes” and my own program, I have gained much inspiration from it.
The format I have chosen for my own production mirrors that of 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes consists of a beginning with a ticking stop watch, three different stories that is introduced by a host, followed by the musings of a comedian, comments from viewers about previous programs and finished with the same ticking watch from the beginning of the program. Muir’s video magazine starts off with an intro theme, then an overview of school, followed by several stories revolving around activities going on at the school, succeeded by a few different global events, some obscure fact, and finishes with the same intro theme from the beginning. But the similarities end there. Watch for my show at Muir. --Muir student