Channel 4 (wnbc-tv) coverage of the ongoing cleanup of NYC’s “Bronx River”. Aired Friday 29-Dec-2006.
Great news!!!
No more raw sewage dumped in the Bronx River!
I also found this very good video produced for the American Museum of Natural History about the Bronx River and ecological initiatives.
This documentary is the final project of a course which explored a range of professional broadcast journalism production and post-production techniques. Students learned how to make a documentary video from conception and script development to field shooting, editing and completion. The course focused on instilling hands-on field production experience, including hand-held camera work, interview preparation and sound recording with professional microphones. Students utilized their newly acquired documentary filmmaking skills to create, as a group, to edit a short broadcast piece with Final Cut Pro on the ecological makeup of the Bronx River, its treatment and its relationship to the members of the local Bronx Community. In addition to capturing documentation of the ecological workshop, and conducting interviews with select ecological educators, students also wrote a script and did a re-enactment teaching viewers about good and bad habits, which affect the environment.
Instructor: Marianna Ellenberg
Students: Ester Ford, Stuart Gardiner, Luz Polo, Adam Rodriguez
I was invited to have short session with teenagers attending UN Forum on Our Common Humanity in the Information Age.
This forum will gather top-level speakers, including Nobel laureates and some of the leading thinkers and innovators of our time. They will focus on the values that unite our common humanity and how these values may be expressed globally through the Millennium Development Goals, empowered by the new and rapidly developing information and communication technologies.
http://och-forum.blogspot.com/
29 November, 1:15-2:45pm EST (location: Ex Press Bar, 3rd Floor)
We’ll be holding a workshop for teens, geared toward raising awareness of the Millennium Development Goals via fun activities like creating a 30-second TV spot, storyboarding an online game, and making a skit or a song.
Facilitated by Luma Alsaleh, Marlon Barrios-Solano, Sandra Behar, Tina Gongsakdi, Debra Cole, Hugo Berkeley, Josephine Dorado, Medard Gabel, Idrissa Mamane Rabiou, Johnny Ramos, Ben Robison, Bhaskar Sahrawat, Robert David Steele (Vivas), Naveena Swamy.
Video in an pop-up window with code created using the video pop-up maker
The video and the photo can be uploaded using the regular uploader. We have to know the urls.
This is a little wizard that writes the code for you to generate pop-up windows with embedded videos. Paste in your video URL, give it a title, and paste an image URL if you’d like. Then copy and paste the
generated code into your blog entry — Shazzam!
The code generated will launch a small pop up window with your video embedded. Its still a little experimental, but basically works with most video types that play using Quicktime or Windows Media plugins.
I installed a plugin that allows us to post (upload) mp3 directly to the site and play them with this player.
Test using Aretha Franklyn’s Think
Test from a file uploaded to the Prelinger Archives
The birth of the telephone
Spoken by: Thomas A. Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
Recording date: c. 1914
Location: Edison motion picture film studio, Bronx, NY
Record format: Edison Kinetophone cylinder
Record number: 257 B-2 (D-B2 Bell)
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 4634
Note: The motion picture element of this sound film is believed lost.
Use the url to rite this code in the post:
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I got this information from BRAC:
The Bronx River Watershed Coalition’s next meeting will begin
at 1:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006, at the Bronx Borough President’s Office, 198 East 161st Street, Bronx, just east of Interstate 87 and accessible from the Melrose Station of Metro-North Commuter Railroad’s Harlem Line (Note: not all trains stop at this station) and the 161stStreet stop of the #4, B and D Subway trains. Please RSVP to
teresa.crimmens@parks.nyc.gov so that we can tell security how many
people are coming.
With the common goal of cleaning up the Bronx River and its
tributaries, Bronx River Watershed Coalition includes the Bronx River
Alliance, the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation,
Westchester County Department of Planning, 14 local governments, three non-profit organizations and New York State. The Coalition exists to guide the developemtn of a water quality improvement program for the entire Bronx River Watershed.
At this meeting, Franco Monalto, of Columbia University will discuss
his work with the capture and treatment of stormwater runoff in urban
settings. Also at the meeting, a representative from the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers will discuss the status of the Bronx River Ecosystem
Restoration Study, which is led by the Corps under partnership with the
New York City Department of Environmental Protection and Westchester
County Department of Planning.
If you have any questions, please contact me or Rob Doscher
(rdd1@westchestergov.com).
Thanks,
Teresa
Teresa Crimmens
Environmental Coordinator
Bronx River Alliance
1 Bronx River Parkway
Bronx, NY 10462
718-430-4690
718-430-4658 (fax)
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