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nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:15:06 -0700

Lunch with some of the interns at L and M's, which is closing its doors Sunday (*tear* as last summer's intern, Lauryn, would say). The discussion was about Philip's blog post (which has sparked some good comments online):

Lunch

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2008 Summer Interns

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:13:43 -0700

Interns

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Interns

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:03:12 -0700

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Interns and Me

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:05:03 -0700

MTC 2008 Summer Interns

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Summer Interns

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:21:13 -0700

Interns

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Twitter

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:36:47 -0700

Robbie, MTC Class of 2005, has a nice post about how the Jackson Clarion-Ledger (Mississippi's largest newspaper) is using Twitter to follow events in Mississippi, including a smoke bomb prank at Jim Hill High School today. The CL's coverage may have begun with Robbie's "tweet." I've been using Twitter as well and have found it interesting. I'm not sure if it is useful for MTC to have every participant keep a Twitter account but it is something I'm considering. We will have the interns (all of eight of them) keep accounts over the summer and go from there...

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Film

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:42:39 -0700

Question:

The Mississippi Teacher Corps YouTube page is about a year and a half old. We currently have 85 videos up. The most popular "people" videos are Crystal Stewart, Melissa Smith, Ashley Johnson (year one and year two), and Lauryn Smith (our 2007 summer intern). The most popular "subject" videos are former Mississippi Governor William Winter talking about public schools versus private schools, a montage of the Mississippi Delta, Gov. Winter on Mississippi's high teen pregnancy rate, and the MTC Class of 2007 introductions (which has been our "featured" video for about a year). Rounding out the top ten, in the "miscellaneous" category, is a cute 13 second clip of Aaron, one of our 2007 sumer school students, and his teacher, Class of 2006 corps member Deb Raji. The most popular video is Crystal with, as of today, 1,207 views.

Now on to the question... I recently finished and posted the MTC 2007 Summer Intern Film Parts One and Two (YouTube has a maximum length of 10 minutes, which is why the movie was split into two parts). Part One was posted two weeks ago and has, as of today, 43 views. Part Two (featuring Lauryn and Ashley) was posted a week ago and has, as of today, 364 views. Going by views per day, Part Two is the most popular video MTC has ever posted on YouTube. I think it is a great video (although, as the director, I'm biased) and there is a nice montage at the end with a great Ben Harper song. That being said, I'm at a loss to explain why Part Two has so many more views than Part One and is on pace to quickly become the most viewed MTC video ever. Any thoughts?

Part Two

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Film

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:32 -0700

Parts one and two of the Mississippi Teacher Corps 2007 Summer Intern film:

Part One

Part Two

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Intern

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:52:07 -0700

Part Two of the MTC 2007 Summer Intern film. Watch Part One here.

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Intern

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:18:51 -0700

Here is part one of the two-part MTC 2007 Summer Intern film (part two should be up next week). Last year, I made a not-so-serious film about the summer internship (see the 2006 Summer Intern film here). This year I wanted to do something a little more representative of the internship experience...

Lauryn Smith

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