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From: MX%"reilly@apple.com" 29-DEC-1993 08:10:03.92
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Subj: Re: Video Portfolio?
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 93 13:50:53 -0800
From: Brian Reilly <reilly@apple.com>
To: s_lochhead@mentor.unh.edu
Subject: Re: Video Portfolio?
Hi Shelley,
I just finished packaging your CD ROM and will send it out this afternoon.
Several people have written to me after your message on the library
network you posted it to. Thanks! Could you do me a favor and update that
posting? I'm enclosing the file I currently send out. The main change is that
I have had to increase the postage and handling charge to $7.50 to cover
the added expense (and weight) of the floppy disk. I also can't deal with
purchase orders, which I'm starting to get.
Thanks again and please let me know what you think of the CD ROM after you
have had a chance to look at it.
-Brian Reilly
Text of new message:
Thanks for your interest in the Bell HS Video Portfolios. I am sending you
some information about the project and some comments people have made
about it, along with instructions on how to get it.
Description
The Bell High School Video Portfolios CD ROM is an interactive
electronic portfolio containing QuickTime* versions of 28 videos
produced by students in the Bell High School Television Production
program. Each video is accompanied by an interview with a student
producer, along with comments on the video by the television production
teachers, Ed Murphy and Larry Stone. The videos represent the range of
productions done by Bell students, including Public Service
Announcements, Video Essays, Video Poems, and Music Videos.
This CD ROM is unique -- it collects the work of students into a group
portfolio, giving the reader/viewer an opportunity to learn about the
award-winning Bell High School Television Production program by seeing
videos, watching and listening as students describe their work, reading
comments by their teachers, and seeing student work in the context of
similar projects by other students. The interface provides a number of
ways (genre, title, author, interviews, video index) to access the more
than 1 hour and 50 minutes of Quicktime video on the disc.
Contents:
Civil Wars, Boom! I Got Your Boyfriend, Death Sentence, Drugs
Kill, Gangs Just Don't Kill Gangsters, Don't Blaze Your Life Away, Fatal
Attraction, My Own Enemy, No Fumes, Teen Line, Wishing on a Star, Make the
Right Moves, The Lonely Boy, Help the Homeless, Nitro Shatters Your
Life, Sea of Love, Things Happen, Casimira, A Matter of the Heart, Drugs Do
You, From a Distance, The Winners Lose, Waking Up to Reality, You Can't
Rewind Your Life, I Will Always Love You, Game Over, Drugs Money Death!, I
Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Interviews: Melanie Alvarenga, Jose F. Baltodano, Jesse Barrios, Doug
Chavez, Juan Jauregui, Laura Jauregui, Louie Laino, Lisette Maciel,
Leonor Martinez, Felix Martiz, Jose Mayorquin, Diana Miller, Anabel
Miramontes, Wendolin Morales, Lupe Montenegro, Jorge Ortiz, Gerson
Perez, Juan Rosas, Frank Santos.
System Requirements: Minimum: Macintosh computer with Quicktime 1.5;
HyperCard 2.1; 13" Color Monitor; CD ROM drive; 8 bit color card; 4MB RAM
Recommended: Double-speed CD ROM drive or fast Macintosh with
single-speed CD ROM drive; External Speakers; 24 bit color card; 8 MB
RAM
Getting a Copy
I have no funding to support this work, so I've had to stop sending it
out completely free of charge. The package contains the CD ROM, updated
interface on disk and some paper materials as well as the packaging. To
get a copy, send $7.50 (check, cash, or money order (sorry, no purchase orders))
to cover postage, handling and materials to:
Brian Reilly
Video Portfolios CD ROM
266 Lenox Avenue #405
Oakland, CA 94610
I'll send it out to you within a week after getting your request.
Thanks,
-brian reilly
Comments about the Bell HS Video Portfolios CD ROM
When I want to show someone what the power of technology and education is
really about, I take out Brian Reilly's Bell High School Video Portfolios
CD-ROM. Any CD can offer you a "multimedia experience", but only this one
transforms pointing and clicking into a cultural exploration. And the
culture of Bell High School's TV Production class that this CD
documents is stunning, built on the foundations of collaboration,
community, and excellence depressingly absent from much of education
today.
Rick Borovoy, Senior Software Engineer,
Distributed Learning Systems, Apple Computer
Brian Reilly's "Bell High School Video Portfolios CD ROM" is a
provocative example of the new literacies beginning to be available to
students, teachers, and researchers. It is inspiring to see how
skillfully and eagerly Bell students compose videos about topics of
significance in youth culture. Reilly, by artfully assembling these
videos on a CD, and by including with them interviews and comments from
the students and their teacher, both gives us a window onto these
literacy activities and products, and illustrates for educators and
researchers how new technologies might be harnessed for teaching and
research. This is truly exciting, innovative, and important work that
anyone who's interested in technology and education will want to know
about.
Glynda Hull, Associate Professor, Division of Language and Literacy,
School of Education, UC Berkeley
It's the best illustration of technology supporting students' creation
of their own meaning that I've ever seen. I intend to encourage my
schools (24 in all) to undertake similar projects. The interface really
is exceptional.
Peter Hutcher, Technology Coordinator,
Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, CA
Incredible! Exhilarating! The most exciting thing I've seen come out of
any school.
Paulette Hill, English Teacher, El Monte High School, El Monte, CA
I have not been captivated by anything to this degree in years. It is
incredible!
Sue Orvik, Apple Education Sales Agent, Computer Plus
Anyone who's interested in what students can create, and what they
gain, when you put technology in their hands, should spend some serious
time with this disc. More than a display of some very impressive video
creations, the interviews of the student producers and comments from
their teachers provide important insights into the educational
advantages of this kind of learning.
Judy Stern, Multimedia specialist, Instructional Technology Program,
UC Berkeley, Author of BMUG's Quicker Quicktime & Co-producer of
BMUG's TV-ROM* and TV-ROM Too*
There is school and there is school. Kids do lots of things in school
they don't care about, that don't challenge them or engage them. Then
there's the Bell High School TV Production program that creates
learning opportunities for kids as they make sense of and try to change
their own world. But how do you capture this kind of student engagement
and creativity? How do you communicate the intensity, the amount of
thought, the amount of care, the amount of understanding that students
are capable of? This CD, simple in its interface and presentation,
answers those questions and points to one of the most important future
uses of technology and multimedia in the learning context.
David Dwyer, Distinguished Scientist/Manager,
Learning Technologies Group, Apple Computer
After experiencing the Bell CD I was in awe....the CD is a very
powerful experience...This is the sort of learning experience that I am
sure will stay with all of those involved for the rest of their lives,
and teaching/learning can't get any better than that.
John Maschak, Science Teacher, Surrey, B.C., Canada
The Bell CD-Rom is both a powerful statement and an example of
effective use of electronic media in the classroom. The students' work
speaks for itself, eloquently, and it is clear how empowering it is to
place these media in the students' hands. The CD-ROM software is a
smooth and professional showcase for the student projects. A wonderful
piece of work.
Christopher Hoadley, Multimedia Developer, University of California at Berkeley
Bell High School Television Production Program - Background Information
Bell High School has a very successful video production program,
certainly the tops in LA and probably throughout California. Bell
students won twenty-three different awards this year for their videos
in local, state, and national competitions, and they've won about the
same number of awards each of the previous two years. One Bell student,
Juan Jauregui, was featured in a video on the future of television
shown recently at the National Cable Television Association meeting in
San Francisco. Bell teacher Ed Murphy also appeared in the video, which
combined commentary by television, video and computer leaders such as
John Sculley, Bill Gates, John Malone, Linda Ellerbee, and others with
three individual profiles. One of the profiles highlighted Juan's video
production skills.
The success of the students in Bell High School's television production
program is even more noteworthy given the context in which they work.
Their school has 4000 students and operates on a year-round schedule.
Many classes are over-enrolled, with more students than available
chairs. Like many urban schools in California, Bell High has a 40%
dropout rate, and is not far from gang and drug activity. The Bell
video production facility has one editing set-up with an Amiga Video
Toaster, three or four working camcorders, and four Apple IIc's for
scriptwriting. Despite these conditions, Bell students continue to
produce a range of high-quality videos that have brought themselves and
their program considerable recognition.
The Bell High School Video Portfolios CD ROM uses multimedia technology
to deliver twenty-eight of the best student produced videos from the
past four years at Bell High, as well as interviews with the student
producers and written comments by their teachers. The Video Portfolios
CD ROM shows how authentic assessment can be combined with interactive
multimedia to create both a compelling record of student achievement as
well as an instructional tool for teachers. Over one hour and fifty
minutes of Quicktime video is included on the CD ROM, which was
produced on a budget of $6500, $3000 of which went for mastering of the
disc. The videos and interviews range in length from thirty seconds to
six minutes, and cover a wide range of topics, including homelessness,
war and peace, love and death, drugs, gangs, AIDS, and smoking. At a
time when so much information and entertainment is delivered through
video and film, it is surprisingly rare to find a group of students who
are as skilled in producing the kinds of video texts that most of us experience
as readers but not as writers.
-Brian Reilly
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