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**__The Supreme - Final Project__** Day One (July 26, 2010)
 * Opener **

1. What most intrested you in the Supreme Court? - The thing that intrested me the most in the Supreme Court was dealing with laws and the different point of views that people have on different arguments intrests me as well. 2. What questions do you still have?

3. Topic/Project Ideas - Creating a glogster to present all that I have learned and using a Wordle to help me think of ideas. 4. Technology you liked using. - Glogster, Slide, Wordle and the Mind Map on Inspiration.

Day Two (July 27, 2010) - Field Trip To Moakley Court House

Photos!

- I do apologize that there isn't a lot of photos but we were not allowed to have ANY electronic devices within the building.











These six photos excluding a seventh photo that was not able to take due to time and schedule all aligned one of the entrances to the public. An interesting fact about the Moakley Court House is that it is completely open to the public and was even designed to welcome them in. I thought it was amazing that we were just able to walk into an ongoing trail without questioning.


 * Some photos I snagged from Google Images !**



This image is the yet another public entrance. It is specially designed facing the Boston Harbor to represent that we common people are welcomed in at anytime. Also, if you are standing right in in front of this entrance you are able to view the entrances to each of the 27 court rooms which also tells us that the court house isn't meant to be hidden from the public.



Some very interesting facts that we learned about during the tour was about the design (architectural as well as the art) that went into this amazing court house it that the artist that is chosen to have their artwork displayed for the public eye is the fact that they receive half of 1% of the cost of the building. In this case it is a major controversy because being that this is a very expensive building ($163 million) the artist of the 13 panel artwork, Ellsworth Kelly, received $800,000.

Day Three (July 28, 2010) - Finalizing the Project

About My Role : In our parody podcast my character is Clarence Thomas. The reason why I choose him was because it did amaze me that he was the second African American to serve on the court after Thurgood Marshall. His conformation hearing with also be be fairly easy to mimic and make fun of because he does havve a short temper. Some interesting facts about him is that his opinions hasve generally supported the executive branch. He was also nominated by George H. W. Bush and took oath for office on October 23, 1991 and has served up until now. However, before he was nominated to become on the court George H. W. Bush did appoint him as the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in June of 1989.



The case we are debating ; __**Roe Vs. Wade **__

Reargued October 11, 1972 Decided January 22, 1973 **
 * Argued on December 13, 1971

A CBS news cover story link below

Roe vs. Wade

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Day Four (July 29, 2010) - Final Day

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For our Final Podcast we made a podcast on Windows Movie Maker (a program found on the computer applications).



Pirate Pad We Used



A list of technology strategies we used -
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Voice Thread
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Wordle ✔
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Inspiration
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Snipping Tool ✔
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Piratepad ✔
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Slide
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Glogster
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Sticky notes ✔
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Impeding videos and podcasts ✔
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Word Document - Comments ✔

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">** Project Reflection - **

The podcast/slideshow as well as the other tools we used to vreate the project were very entertaining. I enjoyed creating the video and liked the fact that I could work on it at home instead of just being limited here. Some things that I learned doing this project are that not all judges and justices have the same opinion or will agree on the same thing. Some factors that determine this is if their conservative or liberal and what type of party they are in (i.e. Republican or Democratic). However, having different opinions makes everything more fair for the people involved in the case so that most of the views are seen.