Shrunken Heads Podcast

Congratulations everyone, we have finished. Nate and Jan you did well working on the podcast. We couldn't have had a better team working on that. Kristin the script was fantastic. Becca is was great working with you on video.

Embedded Video and Music

I am going to try and embed music into our blog to see what it does. Hope it works.





Guess it doesn't hurt to do a little show and tell. The video came from Teachertube.com Download Video: Posted by dpeel at TeacherTube.com.

Work Day Thursday

It's a good thing that we had almost all day to work on Thursday. We have so much to complete together. The old saying "Two Heads are Better than one" is so true. We have learned so much from working together on things that one of the most important lessons we have learned is cooperation.

Music and Sound Clips

When we were in the copyright and fair use class today, we disussed that a huge amount of what we do in our classroom and how it either follows or doesn't follow the copyright law. This I found to be very beneficial. It was amazing how much is not allowed and yet students can have a small amount (10% or less) of a song for use in the classroom only. Here is a great site to start with for information on copyrights http://mdmc2007conference.wikispaces.com/Ethics-and-Media and another good site is http://mtsd.k12.wi.us/MTSD/podcast/copyright/copyright/Intro.html. Enjoy searching.

Audacity

This bad-boy is for sale at http://www.salangome.com/shrunken-heads.asp. $54.95


I've been playing with Audacity..it is trickier than I thought. I did discover that if you highlight a section, it only plays the sound in the highlighted area. That helps when you are trying to edit out ummm's and other unwanted sounds.

Nate...my files didn't split up on the laptop, but I did notice that they split up when I put them on the flash drive...go figure.

I just morphed a picture of my cat's head into a shrunken head, my oldest daughter thinks we all need to go on medicines....

exhausted!

exhausted! We really are making progress on this. The recipe is great Jan - we even used it in our interview. I wonder who we can ask to buy shrunken heads from tomorrow. We'll see....

Cooperation

I feel that our groups strength is in the amount of work we are all willing to do to get a project done. Together we are creating a fantastic project. Tomorrow we will edit our projects and will be completed on time. I just encountered a new technological problem but one that was easily solved. If you hook a camera up to the computer through the USB device, use a port on the computer not an adapter that is connected to the port. The adapter cause the camera to not have a strong enough signal for the computer to recgonize the camera.

How to make a Jivaro Shrunken Head

From http://exn.ca/Stories/1999/08/27/52.asp

How to make a Jivaro Shrunken Head

• Remove head.
• Make a slit from the back of the head to the crown of the head.
• Separate the fleshy part of the face and the top of the head from the skull. (Skull may be thrown in river to placate Anaconda god.)
• Turn face inside out and scrape all fatty tissue off.
• Place the head into a pot of simmering water (do not boil, or hair may fall off).
• Simmer until head is about two thirds natural size.
• Sew back of neck, eyes and lips closed with plant fiber.
• Heat small pebbles in fire and place in head, constantly moving.
• When head is too small for pebbles use hot sand.
• Dye head blue-black with plant dyes.
• While heating, continuously mold face to keep the look of its original owner as much as possible.
• Use heated knife to dry and shrink lips.
• Wear around neck.

Correction!

My gmail account is beccaschoenherr@gmail.com, no period after becca.

Connectivity

Today we have been experiencing huge amounts of connection problems to the wireless network. It is so new that the internet connections are hit and miss for us.

Great Day!

We have a great group! Let's get our shrunken heads together first thing in the morning and start pod-casting away.

Meeting Our Curator

After our heads stopped spinning, we began to organize our thoughts and came up with our plan of attack. We met with our curator Dawn and interviewed her about the Shrunken Heads of Ecuador. It was amazing to learn that they really did shrink heads of the dead. Although it is now outlawed in Ecador, the tourist industry in Panama has not taken up the selling of real shrunken heads.

Introduction to MDMC Conference

This blog has been created in conjunction with the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Stephens Group. The purpose is to learn how to effectively use technology in the classroom setting. Our blog is the on the use of the Shrunken Heads exhibit.