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

Just when I thought it was safe to sleep…

I was reading and winding down tonight when my phone rang. It was 10:15 central time, so 11:15 p.m. here. My husband was very calm on the phone. Apparently, he went out to take care of the dog and tripped and fell.  It scared the heebie-jeebies out of him. His ankle swelled up immediately. He called to see if I thought he should go to the emergency room. Fortunately for us, my aunt is a registered nurse, midwife and nurse practitioner. I called her, she called Marcus and it sounds like it’s just a sprain since he can walk on it and has a full range of motion. Whew! It was a little scary there for a minute!

Now that the emergency has been diverted, I’m heading off to bed. Nothing witty tonight, I’m too tired.

Megs

For your camera needs…

Check out B & H photo video in NY or Wolfe’s Camera in Topeka, KS.

Mad world

Taking a quick break from laundry and assignments to blog. I’m feeling a bit anxious about the Maestro project, mostly because I woke up with a sore throat at noon and then slept it off this afternoon. I feel rested, but still a little down from being ill. It’s not catching, and it’s definitely not swine flu, but I feel a bit behind at this point.

The research for the project is coming along fine. I’m just worried about the interviews. Eh, it’ll be fine.

It was a nice weekend, but now I’m ready to get all organized and prepped for the week. And it’s going to be so nice to have clean cl0thes again! Yay!

Yesterday’s trip to the Rock Hall is making me itch for music. I’m so glad I brought my school computer that has my iTunes on it (temporarily and for educational purposes originally). I’m going to turn it on, review the play, and draw up a draft minus quotes before I switch laundry, get it out, fold it, store it and call it a night. Yay!!!!!

Adam Lambert, I’m ready to join your Mad World.

Megs