Today I'm at a conference in Chicago on GIS -- Geographic Information Systems -- to show off work by the Advanced News Writing class. They crunched lottery numbers and census data to determine that Vermonters don't follow the national trend of poorer people purchasing more lottery tickets than richer people.
You can see the story in this week's Critic. It's not online. Hmmm.
Investigative Reporters and Editors is a group that advocates using a lot of GIS in stories.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Video project options
Tentative teams:
Team 1: Josh, Keith, Blair, Emily C
Team 2: Emily H, Katie, Ben
Team 3: Aimee, Gwen, Allison
Play: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
An Earth Week event
Critic production night
"My Favorite Professor" (interview students)
Baseball: 1 p.m. April 25, vs. U. Maine Farmington
Softball: 3 p.m. April 23, vs. Castleton
Tennis: 1 p.m. April 26, vs. Green Mountain
Team 1: Josh, Keith, Blair, Emily C
Team 2: Emily H, Katie, Ben
Team 3: Aimee, Gwen, Allison
Play: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
An Earth Week event
Critic production night
"My Favorite Professor" (interview students)
Baseball: 1 p.m. April 25, vs. U. Maine Farmington
Softball: 3 p.m. April 23, vs. Castleton
Tennis: 1 p.m. April 26, vs. Green Mountain
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Assignment for Tuesday, April 22
Video Critique:
Find two video offerings from two different newspaper Web sites and critique them on your blogs.
Include links so you can show us in class.
Video Project:
Propose a topic for a 1:30 video story.
Find two video offerings from two different newspaper Web sites and critique them on your blogs.
Include links so you can show us in class.
Video Project:
Propose a topic for a 1:30 video story.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"Dear Mina": Postcards from Germany
My cousin, Ellen Blais, sent me a stack of postcards and photos that had been in the Fort Wayne Williams family for decades.
Beautiful, old-fashioned German handwriting covered the backs. My favorite photo reads, "On a hot June day, with all the roses bluming." The photo shows a man and two women standing among brilliant white blooms, all scowling at the camera.
My favorite postcard shows a pretty, dark-haired girl named Anna, who writes to another Anna about her coming confirmation. I suspect the recipient was Anna Krueger, our grandmother. The date fits -- 1909. The girl was writing from Essen, Germany.
The writing on the "Dear Mina" postcard contains a couple of grammar errors; it seems to have been written in the United States, perhaps by someone who was learning German or didn't speak it fluently.
Viel Spass!
Beautiful, old-fashioned German handwriting covered the backs. My favorite photo reads, "On a hot June day, with all the roses bluming." The photo shows a man and two women standing among brilliant white blooms, all scowling at the camera.
My favorite postcard shows a pretty, dark-haired girl named Anna, who writes to another Anna about her coming confirmation. I suspect the recipient was Anna Krueger, our grandmother. The date fits -- 1909. The girl was writing from Essen, Germany.
The writing on the "Dear Mina" postcard contains a couple of grammar errors; it seems to have been written in the United States, perhaps by someone who was learning German or didn't speak it fluently.
Viel Spass!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Posting Your Slideshows
The Soundslides Web site offers instructions on posting slideshows to a blog such as Blogger.
We will walk through both.
First, we need to create a free hosting site. Soundslides likes WebNG.com
Second, we will learn how to find the embed code.
I found these sites by googling the words Soundlides and Blogger. It took me to a forum. Warning: The info at the top is old and outdated.
We will walk through both.
First, we need to create a free hosting site. Soundslides likes WebNG.com
Second, we will learn how to find the embed code.
I found these sites by googling the words Soundlides and Blogger. It took me to a forum. Warning: The info at the top is old and outdated.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Colleges doing video
From Brian Murley at the Center for Innovation in College Media:
Here is a list of school media sites that are working with video.
Here is a list of school media sites that are working with video.
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