new – international students

Well, we haven’t really used this blog in a long time. But we have been working!

So, since we’re low on time (we hand in the software on Monday) I will just give a quick update on what we’ve done in the past weeks:

Filming

• We interviewed Hazel Launder from the International Office.
• We interviewed the Registrar.
• We interviewed some international students in their on campus accommodation.
• We interviewed a Zimbabwean student, who uses the Sports Centre regularly. (26th March)
• We filmed more of the campus (26th March)

In addition we have also:

• Capturing and editing the footage.
• Finishing off the website, which is now purely a showcase for the DVD
• Working on the dvd menu – with diffuculty due to an apparant bug in Encore.
• Working on the green-screened student presentations

We still need to make our final cuts, and put everything on a dvd.

That’s all for now, and won’t write again untill Monday!

We finally filmed an interview with someone from the accommodation office. Coralie Norwood never got back to us because apparantly there were other people who came to do an interview and she assumed it was us. In the end we interviewed a man named Derek Goss. We did that today at 2:00.

We’ve also filmed the Kent Union Student Activities Sabbatical and also did an impromptu interview with the Education Sabbatical. All the intervies listed in Interviews III have now been done and are being edited, with the exception of the Kent Union President, who did not turn up on the day, and although we left a note and sent him an email, he never got back to us. We’ve decided to drop this interview because of this, and it is not too important as he will no longer be president in the year that the students this pack is aimed for arrive.

Interview with Islamic Society President at 2:00PM

Our interview with Kent Union President was cancelled!

The religious leaders have been responding positively to my emails. So in addition to the others, this is the current schedule of interviews that has been set up:

1. Thursday, 24th Jan, at 3.00pm – Anglican Chaplain
2. Friday, 25th Jan, at 2:00pm – Accommodation Office
3. Sunday, 27th Jan, after service – Pentecostal Leadership Team member
4. Monday, 28th Jan, at 1.00pm – President of Kent Union
5. Monday, 28th Jan, at 3.00pm – Quaker Chaplain
6. Tuesday, 29th Jan, at 1.00pm – Student Activities Sabbatical
7. Tuesday, 29th Jan, at 3.00pm – Buddhist Chaplain

The Muslim Chaplain asked me to call and set up a meeting, so that will be confirmed later today hopefully.

I am still waiting for responses from the Methodist, Catholic and Jewish chaplains; the Accommodation Office; the Registry; and the International Office.

We got some positive responses from the Religious leaders this evening:

• The Anglican Chaplain has agreed to meet us this Thursday, 24th Jan, at 3.00pm.
• The Quaker Chaplain has agreed to meet us next Monday, 28th Jan, at 3.00pm.

Now we need to find some appropriate questions for them.

Today we wrote down a list of everything we hope to accomplish in the next 2 weeks:

One of the things that we wrote down was setting up interviews with various people we hope to include in the pack. We went round to different offices around campus and this is the results we got today:

• BANKS – Barclays said they could not do a filmed interview because of security issues. NatWest asked us to come back tomorrow when the manager would be around
• Accommodation Office – we went there yesterday and were given a email address. We sent the email, but are still waiting for the response.
• Registry – The Academic Registrar agreed to an interview and we were given his PA’s email to set up a time
• International Office – The heads of the office are away until Thursday, and we are still waiting for a response to our email.
• Religious leaders – Akaliza visited a member of the Pentecostal Church leadership team and set up an interview for this weekend. The other leaders have been emailed, and we are waiting for a response.
• Kent Union – We set an interview with James Bull, Student Activities Sabbatical, on Tuesday at 13:00 and Archie, the Union President on Monday at 13:00.

Overall, its been quite a productive day!