Thursday May 28: UberGeek SoundOff

Greetings, fellow JavaNoidz!

In a recent class, there was a happy accident whereby two completely different ideas met in the luxuriant garden that is my mind, fell in love and gave birth to a third idea that combines the two. The first was that I had asked each of you to post to our discussion group some sense of what it means to you personally to be involved with computer programming, ie, "what's it all good for?" The second was that a few of you had casually mentioned that even though we've meeting right next door to it, and even though you've been attending this school for this entire year, and perhaps more years than one, you had never even seen the inside of the radio production rooms next door to this class.

What has sprung in my ever-moving and often randomly creative mind is that today, for those of you who are interested, I would like to give each of you a brief tour of the facility, and perhaps give you a brief run through with the equipment. This can only take place if ALL of us agree to the following conditions:

A) I cannot take in the entire class at one time. At best, I can get four of you in at a shot

B) Those of you who are awaiting your turn or have finished it need to work quietly and appropriately in our class on your projects

C) If you wish to make a brief recording, it should be on a topic related to this class and MUST be school appropriate at all times

D) Naturally, you must be respectful and careful of the equipment. All computers are worthy of respect, whether they have microphones attached to them or not.

If we can all agree to that, I think that this would be a good experience for all. I have had many other students from outside the radio class take part in similar projects, and it has been extremely helpful in promoting the unique resources we have here at HHS. Since most of you are in the 9th or 10th grade, it may even be that you will be interested enough to take one of the Radio classes offered here, since you will be here for at least another 2 or 3 years

Please undertsnad that there is nothing in the least bit mandatory about any of this, and if this is an activity in which you have no interest, you are not required to take part. You will have to stay in the regular classroom however, as I think running down the hall screaming like a nut would probably attract undue attention.

So, let's look at some new technology, m'OK?

Cheers,
Uncle Paulie