Monday, February 18, 2008
Friday, November 2, 2007
video/let's eat/ideas
Thanks for the video, Jake. Seeing that gave me some ideas of how educators can share info about their students, programs, teaching, etc. I need to chew on that for a bit, though.
Joy, Michael and I did bring up the luncheon/dinner educator issue again with the Foundation when we were in Boston. We discussed, again, the issue with educators not being included in these events when they purchase the tickets designated for educators. The board members discussed making it more clear on the workshop sign-up forms that there is the option to buy separate tickets for these events, and that even when signing on for both (lunch and dinner) the savings would still be significant (about $70, if I remember correctly).
We did not discuss at the meeting the option of just including the lunch/dinner in with the educator workshop rate as it stands now. The reason why the educator rate is about $170 less than the regular membership rate is because it does not include those expensive food options, and I think the thinking on SND's part was that if there was a way to offer a cut-rate deal for educators to get to the workshop in the first place, then doing so without the food option was the way to go.
Hope this all makes sense.
Now, my question is, do we lobby for the lower rate that would also include lunch/dinner? And is so, what's the best way to do that? My thinking is that there's strength in numbers, and if we all came together and signed our names to a proposal/letter/petition, that that would be fairly effective. Any thoughts?
One more week and one day to go here at OU, and time's a flyin. I need some air!
Julie
Joy, Michael and I did bring up the luncheon/dinner educator issue again with the Foundation when we were in Boston. We discussed, again, the issue with educators not being included in these events when they purchase the tickets designated for educators. The board members discussed making it more clear on the workshop sign-up forms that there is the option to buy separate tickets for these events, and that even when signing on for both (lunch and dinner) the savings would still be significant (about $70, if I remember correctly).
We did not discuss at the meeting the option of just including the lunch/dinner in with the educator workshop rate as it stands now. The reason why the educator rate is about $170 less than the regular membership rate is because it does not include those expensive food options, and I think the thinking on SND's part was that if there was a way to offer a cut-rate deal for educators to get to the workshop in the first place, then doing so without the food option was the way to go.
Hope this all makes sense.
Now, my question is, do we lobby for the lower rate that would also include lunch/dinner? And is so, what's the best way to do that? My thinking is that there's strength in numbers, and if we all came together and signed our names to a proposal/letter/petition, that that would be fairly effective. Any thoughts?
One more week and one day to go here at OU, and time's a flyin. I need some air!
Julie
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Why our students like design
I thought I'd share a video I made this semester with our advanced designers here at MU. The purpose of this video was to get our new students excited about design by seeing some of the work their peers have done. I also thought sharing some of their thoughts would be good for this blog.
I'm just getting started playing with video and iMovie (I couldn't scrape together the money for Final Cut, unfortunately), so I'm sure my plans for future videos will be much better than this one. Be sure to crank the volume -- I learned a real valuable lesson on the importance of external microphones with this project.
Here's the video:
I'm just getting started playing with video and iMovie (I couldn't scrape together the money for Final Cut, unfortunately), so I'm sure my plans for future videos will be much better than this one. Be sure to crank the volume -- I learned a real valuable lesson on the importance of external microphones with this project.
Here's the video:
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Advice for next year
I've been in touch with Bill Gaspard, who's next year's site chair. I told him I had suggestions to make, and he told me to send them his way.
I plan to say that either students and educators should have tickets to the lunch and the dinner, or student contests/announcements, etc., should happen at other times.
Anything else you'd like me to include? Or actually, maybe if we all got in touch individually it would have more of an effect.
I plan to say that either students and educators should have tickets to the lunch and the dinner, or student contests/announcements, etc., should happen at other times.
Anything else you'd like me to include? Or actually, maybe if we all got in touch individually it would have more of an effect.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Interactive game
Check out this interactive game, made by a couple of our grad students who had physics undergrad degrees. They analyzed how fast and high a football would have to be thrown to make a local commercial realistic.
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/media/multimedia/2007/games/euler/physics.html
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/media/multimedia/2007/games/euler/physics.html
Monday, October 15, 2007
Student Web design
Awesome ideas, guys. Ryan, thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that before.
We're dipping our feet into the Web design world. And because everything we do here is for publication, we've been taking some of our big packages (the often-100-inch investigative-style cover piece we have each weekend, plus some features) and designing online packages.
Our Web site is totally database-driven, and if we want an article to be searchable, it needs to be in the database. So the clunky way we have to get readers to these packages is to link to them out of the text-only versions. We're working on how to get flat page templates that will show up in searches and archives.
But for now, here are a few links to what we've published. I'd love to see what your students are doing as we all navigate this strange new world of news design.
Status of Women in Journalism
Comic book group
MU National Guard helping to replant Afghanistan
Frolicking Fall Fun
Joy
We're dipping our feet into the Web design world. And because everything we do here is for publication, we've been taking some of our big packages (the often-100-inch investigative-style cover piece we have each weekend, plus some features) and designing online packages.
Our Web site is totally database-driven, and if we want an article to be searchable, it needs to be in the database. So the clunky way we have to get readers to these packages is to link to them out of the text-only versions. We're working on how to get flat page templates that will show up in searches and archives.
But for now, here are a few links to what we've published. I'd love to see what your students are doing as we all navigate this strange new world of news design.
Status of Women in Journalism
Comic book group
MU National Guard helping to replant Afghanistan
Frolicking Fall Fun
Joy
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Excellent multimedia resource
Just thought I'd share this link with those unfamiliar with it.
http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/
Mindy McAdam's site is a must-see on my daily web hits. Everyday she has links, tutorials or other helpful things for those of us struggling to understand this topsy-turvy industry.
http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/
Mindy McAdam's site is a must-see on my daily web hits. Everyday she has links, tutorials or other helpful things for those of us struggling to understand this topsy-turvy industry.
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