Thursday October 2: sending emails, setting more questions and getting into the "room next door"

Greetings radio children!

Today, we are going to work towards several different goals, one after the other:

A) You will send an email to each of the five radio DJs you selected as part of an earlier assignment. Each email you send will let them know who you are ( a high school student) what you are doing (working in a class on radio production) and why you are writing -- you would like to ask them some basic questions about what they do. Please make each email brief, polite and appropriate. Be respectful in all ways.

B) AFTER you have sent that, you will each need to make a new discusssion posting. You have had some time since you posted your original three questions you wish to ask your DJs; now you will need to create not less than five additional questions. Try to think of exactly what you will need to ask. This is important, as the people we are trying to contact are very busy people, and we may not get more than one chance to ask them anything.

C) While this is going on, I would like to take in groups of four people at a time to the radio room next door, to get acquainted with the equipment and possibly create a test recording of your voices. When I take you in there, please be aware that the equipment in that room is all precision made, and probably worth more than my car. In other words, you need to be very careful. This is one place where we DO NOT ACT LIKE WE'RE STILL IN GRADE SCHOOL. If you can't handle the responsibility, you will not be allowed to stay in there.

D) If this still applies, any makeup work you need to hand in needs to get done TODAY.

Cheers,
Mr. L