Re: wc adverts

[gillespiep@vms.csd.mu.edu]

Kathy, is that the video that ends with a sort of collage of "right" 
images and a recording of the Ren and Stimpy song "Happy Happy Joy Joy"?  
I saw it at a conference.  Fun.  

Paula Gillespie

On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Kathy Ivey wrote:

> 96BANDY@WMICH.edu wrote:
> 
> >         I would also be very interested in how this routine works for
> > somebody else.  So far I've been the only one out behind the lines and there is some scepticism here concerning whether anyone else can deliver 
> this spiel efectively.  Obviously I have reasons to feel both ways.  So 
> please, use it but send feedback.
> 
> James,
> 
> Two years ago my WCTR staff made a video together to use in classes the 
> way you use your skit.  We had great fun doing it (one of the consultants 
> produced it as part of her requirements for a major in communications.)  
> Each consultant wrote a bit of the script, depicting what we DON'T do in 
> the center (classes laugh at this when they realize it's O.K.).  Then we 
> "replay" each scene again and talk about what we DO.  I show this video 
> (called "Getting Centered:  The 'Write' Way"--corny I know) to any class 
> whose teacher asks for an introduction to the Center.  Response has been 
> positive, though I must say I cringe every time I see myself (I play, 
> guess what, the director).
> 
> It proved to be a great collaborative learning project for our staff--we 
> decided together what ideas we wanted to convey about the Center and how 
> to appeal to student writers.  We laughed a lot too--something we all 
> needed at the end of the spring semester.
> 
> You might think about modifying your funny spiel for video purposes and 
> making your own movie--maybe something like a Saturday Night Live skit.
> 
> Kathy J. Ivey
> Lenoir-Rhyne College
> Hickory NC 28603
>