August/September Task List

• investigate low-cost option for laser printable labels at Office Depot (Michael)
  
• design black and white label that makes sense with the design of labels wrapped around edges (Michael)

• investigate cost of slightly different labels for the installer CD, etc. (Ellen)
  
• look at discmakers site to see the format (Michael)
  
• contact discmakers to confirm exact format (CMYK? ai?) for image (Michael)
  
• create the design (Michael)

• Come up with titles and thanks to be included (Ellen and Greg)
  
• Create design (Michael)
  
• Integrate into the director files (Michael)

• Frank Tomasulo (Ellen)
  
• Deborah Grayson (Sue)
  
• Kavita Philip (Jeannie)
  
• more from Bob McMath? (Greg)
  
• Jay Telotte? (Ellen)
  
• Ellen Strain (Jeannie)
  
• Greg VanHoosier-Carey (Sue)

• Greg
  
  • 9-10 scholars
  
  
• Ellen
  
  • Paul Young
    
  • Henry Jenkins
    
  • Charlene Regester
    
  • Jane Gaines
    
  • Matthew Bernstein

• get confirmation from instructor-evaluators for November 18
  Confirmations received from:
  
  • Deborah Barker
    
  • Paul Young
    
  • Ted McCosky
    
  • Marty Norden
    
  • Jan Olsson
    
  • Eunice Johnston
    
  • Daniel Bernardi
  
  
• Awaiting final confirmations from
  
  • Maureen Furniss (question about spring teaching assignment)
    
  • Kate Bowles (travel concerns from Australia)
    
  • Frank Tomasulo (no response yet)
  
  
• meet with Dan Hickey to discuss revised rubric and goals of training session
  
• send out materials to participants, regarding airport transportation, lodging, etc.
  
• arrange catering
  
• estimate budget
  
• decide on honorarium amount
  
• draw up schedule
  
• arrange rooms

• over next couple of weeks, find time in the Con Ed lab (Michael)
  
• early September check (Michael)
  
• mass reduction of jpeg quality in response to file size issues?

• follow up with Jeana (awaiting account number, followed by bidding wait time)
  
• purchase commercial copies: $999 X 2

• After determining compression rate, choose which quicktime versions to use.
  
• meet with Jeana to involve her in software choice (take into account larger LCC needs)
  
• experiment with demo versions
  

• integration of time triggers

• Make Scholar ID tags for audio not yet approved.
  
• Locate more images for inclusion.
  
• Pull and insert more quotes.
  
• Solicit input from scholars as necessary
  
• Adjust template for inclusion of theme cards. (Greg)
  
• Putting times to the triggers, positioning them on the page.
  
• Make decisions about theme cards.
  

• Test out template using Greg's SVO (Patrick)
  
• Make spreadsheet with list of images
  
• Construct quote cards
  
• Prepare graphics with black background, etc.
  
• Construct captions