It has been a while since the last posting - we have been very busy working in the Comm Tech room on our Public Service Announcements for Darfur. The projects have been really impressive! They will be marked this week and we will watch them in the PAC on Friday on the big screen (that is the plan at this point!).

This is a substancial project because it has you looking at so many different social concepts and developing a variety of skills! We analyzed media, looked at what makes effective marketing versus ineffective marketing (which is a critical skill for everyone to have in a consumerist economy), we made concrete plans for our public service announcements (storyboards), started to understand plagerism and crediting people for their work, researched Darfur and its history, looked at different NGO's and found ways to help the people of Darfur, found links between music and social concepts (while taking into account the emotional component) and finally, made a PSA using new technologies such as keynote and IMovie! The results were certainly impressive!

On Thursday and Friday we moved on to discuss the last case study in Historical Globalization - Canada. We will wrap this up at the end of the week and have a unit exam the first week in May!