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Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 31st, 2008
After watching the candidates spar in three debates and getting inundated with media coverage, Americans are now deciding which man will become president and, in effect, which foreign policy the nation will pursue.
The candidates’ personal beliefs and experiences have played a significant role in the way they see the world. A 25-year age [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 30th, 2008
For our final project we will be interviewing seniors about how the economy is affecting their thoughts about finding a job and a career. We will interview about 3 seniors to see how they are being affected by today’s uncertain economy. We will ask questions like: are you nervous about the job market and about [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 29th, 2008
Chapter four of We the Media focus on the idea of the newsmakers turning the tables. This means that those who are usually written about do the writing. My favorite part of the chapter came from the section about Mark Cuban and his Blog. I am from Dallas, and have been a Mavericks fan since [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 23rd, 2008
For our final project, we will be discussing how graduating students are being affected by the current financial crisis. The uncertain economy is definitely impacting students and their plans. Cnn.com states that with the recent waves of lay offs, people all around the country are affected and deciding on what to do next, and more [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 23rd, 2008
The topic that my group is hopefully going to cover is comparing and contrasting Iran’s economy to ours here in the United States. This economic crisis occurring here in the United States is leading to a global crisis as well.
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 22nd, 2008
Do people trust the government anymore?
Possible Questions:
What do you think about the government?
Does the government tell us the truth?
What can you believe?
Can you fully trust either man that is supposed to be our next president?
Editing:
Handwrite the questions on a pad of paper.
Black and White
Soft music in the background
Video over some of the [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
With the use of all these new technology platforms, users are now able to create more of their own content. As well as being able to create content, users can also influence the ways in which other websites work and are organized. Almost all websites offer some way in which you can personalize the content [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
This is the first time I have used Flickr and it is surprisingly easy to upload photos. I can share all of my photos almost instantaneously.
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
I signed up to use Flickr and posted a few pictures of myself on there. I was impressed by how many people use Flickr to share their photos with each other. Most of the photos looked like they were taken by professionals. They were very creative and used a lot of interesting photography techniques. I [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
I have signed up for Flickr, Digg, Newsvine and deli.icio.us. I do not think I will be using Flickr much though, because I’m not too comfortable uploading photographs of myself to a public forum. I already post most of my pictures through a facebook account, and posting them on another site would be too time consuming [...]