Green Gang

http://new.jmc.kent.edu/asne/projects.html

The Green Gang’s project has been posted on the ASNE website.

More to come.

Stacy

Black Squirrel Posse debuts on ASNE site

The first project pages are up. This will get quicker with each project I put on the site, so stick with me.

ASNE 2009 Projects

Let me know if you find problems.

Squirrel group, if you would like to remake your jpg with the quotes into something more horizontal, I can place it below the sound slides…I could not get it beside the slide show because if the width and it looked funny below in the vertical jpg.

Good work Black Squirrel Posse!

Story Ideas are up!

The story ideas tab on the ASNE site is all set. If you find broken links let me know where so I can fix…or any other problems for that matter.
Lessons, Gallery and Projects to follow soonish…

The little cake that couldn’t

Tomorrow, there will be no cake. Some of you heard me talking about making fondant and making a cake for Friday’s luncheon, but alas, I have to report…it’s too hot for cake.

The thing about fondant (fondant is that stuff that is made of 100% sugar, usually tastes awful but makes cakes all smooth and pretty) is that it reacts to its environment and the environment of my kitchen today was apparently too hot to handle. I am including a picture of the cake as it slowly melted and sagged its way into an orange ball of sugar, icing and crisco (fondant requires you to crisco your house, your kids, most of your body and anything else the fondant might touch..it’s REALLY sticky stuff).

It was almost amazing.

SO, with that, I will say it was nice to meet you all these two weeks and please feel free to contribute to this blog throughout your school year. Tell us what has worked and what has not. And make sure you leave the black squirrels here!!! (They’re cute but they make terrible pets…not that I would know).

I will be working dilligently at getting your projects online over the next week…all the while eating melted cake it seems!

–Stacy

The things we do for journalism

Don’t shoot me, but I think I’m doing okay.  Aside from a strange (and painful) sunburn.

It’s odd; if you’d have told me last week that I would be feeling pretty mellow right now, I would have laughed in your face.  But I actually feel like I have a handle on things right now.

No, I’m not finished with everything.  But I can see the finish line, and I can see that it’s all do-able.  Right?

Here’s to hoping that the sunburn won’t be too bad tomorrow.  Or I may just ask you to shoot me anyhow.

NY Times multimedia link

If you are looking for multimedia, often you can search the name of a paper and audio slideshows, and the link will appear to take you to interactive images, slideshows, and audio slideshows. Here is the one for the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/

Or if you want the link that we were shown in the breakout session, go to the One in Eight Million site.

The Theory of Rotational Neglect

We’re into the tough part of the ASNE Reynolds Institute: the DOING part. And, oh yes, still the LEARNING part. Your instructors will admit you’re spinning a lot of plates in the air at the moment as you see the backdoor workings of student Web sites, figure out how to “muck the mud” from photos….and interview folks like Kent State May 4th expert Jerry Lewis.

So…it’s time to learn my Theory of Rotational Neglect….Someday I’ll write the book about this and become famous like “The One Minute Manager” authors, but, for now, here’s the Cliff’s Notes version —

Everyone has a long list of obligations in life: prepping for all the classes you teach, carpooling your kids to soccer, cleaning the house, washing the laundry, maintaining your friendships, baking a pie for the church picnic….and on and on. Sometimes you just CAN’T get it all done.

BUT if you rotate what you neglect, you can manage things just fine. So the house is a mess this week when the newspaper deadline means a couple of late nights? But once the paper is off to the printer, get out the vacuum and tackle the carpets.

Yes, it’s just Prioritizing 101. I just like that name: Rotational Neglect. For now, it may mean your list of story ideas is a little late, but you don’t want to let down your maestro team. You may have to miss a presentation because that’s the only time you can interview the perfect source. We understand.

Use the theory now and share it with your students. Maybe when I finally write the book about it, you can say, “Oh, I’ve used THAT for years!”

cpb

Is anyone else finding it hard to work away from the comforts of their routine? I am finding that I am a creature of habit, habits of how and where I write best. Thank heaven for the weekend to get caught up. Although sitting perched on top of a bunk bed is quite different from my perch at home.
The week has been fantastic I have learned so much that my entire journalism program is doing a complete overhaul in my brain right now.. Isn’t that a scary place…
On a side note I thoroughly enjoyed Saturday activities..The Hall of Fame was great and it was extra fun having a singalong with Megs and Paula Well the Maestro project is screaming, “Write me!! Write me!!” so off I go!
Carol

Thanks and a gift, sort of

I just wanted to thank people who commented on my last post.  I received some great ideas, and the reassurances made me feel better about my technology situation.  Now for the “gift.”

A number of people commented on my “I heart irony” t-shirt yesterday.  If you are looking for a similar shirt, go here. See? Check out the rest of the site for other delightful shirts. They get shipped from Canada, so that means they must be lovely, right?

Oy vey

No one make fun of me, okay?  That technology presentation was overwhelming.  The reason for this is not because technology scares me, but because my program is quite literally starting from scratch as far as technology goes.  Since the journalism program was extinct for a few years, the equipment reflects the most recent acquisitions–from 4-5 years ago.  One camera is broken, the other barely works, so I know I have to prioritize as far as technology purposes.

There is no way I will be investing in anything for shooting video.  A camera?  Two cameras?  Hard to buy when your budget is limited.  Maybe as we sell advertising we’ll be able to manage it.  Sigh.

However, I was lifted a little to hear that there are grants for these things.  I’ll just have to beg, cry, and bat my eyelashes to get money, I suppose.