This article by the New York Times is a great display of what digital media can, and should do. It mixes characteristics of print and digital media really we...
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
Three Goals
These are my three (SMART) goals that I want to accomplish in the near future for my three gifted projects.
Individial: Finish the redesign of my blog, fix pictures, complete pages. Done by the end of break/first few weeks of school.
Group: Complete another chapter of the story. Done by the second or third week after school resumes.
Assessment Literacy: Finish assignment for program with Teacher. Done by end of break. Redesign of blog. Done by end of break....
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Blog Edit Progress
I have allowed myself to pause the research process to revamp my blog. As you can see I have added a custom template, and have become familiar with the HTML codes that make up my blog. I have not enabled all of the links and pages yet but I will soon. As soon as the blog is finished I will let you kn...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
HTML What?!?
You have (hopefully) noticed that I completely changed my blogger template tonight. But now to edit some of the page headings and captions I have to edit the HTML code. I am in no way technologically gifted so if things look a little messed up just bear (bare?) with me for n...
Friday, December 14, 2012
My favorite journalist?
In speaking with my instructors we talked about which journalist I liked the most. My response was Brian Williams. I really enjoy watching him on Nightly News, Rock Center, and occasionally on 30 Rock. He is a really entertaining journalist, his personality is more pronounced than many journalists....
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Digital Revolution
I really like these infographics....I will probably post more soon. They display information better than writing, especially for more visual learners.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Create: Part One
I have had the creating aspect of this blog in my head for a while and as my individual deadline had grown closer I have been striving to achieve it more and more. Honestly my english skills are being suppressed a bit in the class I'm in so I am needing to almost relearn things that I was a pro at last year. I have never really been educated in the art of journalistic writing. This lack of knowlegde lead me to the "all-knowing" google. Here is what I have...
Monday, December 10, 2012
Modern Journalism Infographic
The PEW research center had a competition of sorts to display the data from the modern news study. Here is the winning one. This is a cool way to demonstrate the analysis I had posted a while back in a new w...
Still No Scholarships
I posted a while back about looking for scholarship opprotunities for people my age. It seems like all of the ones readily availible are either for higschoolers entering college or college students entering the job market. I did find one website that offered scholorships for highschoolers but ut seems that the website hasn't been updated in almost a year. There is probably something out there and I will continue to keep an eye out but the outcome is looking...
Thursday, December 6, 2012
The Future Of Mobile News
The Future Of Modern News
I can really relate to this article because, like the majority of americans, I am basically attached at the hip to my various moble devises. Falling into the 50% that own both a tablet and smartphone, I am hardpressed to find remember times during my day when I'm not...
Pew Project For Excellence in Journalism
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
I have recently stumbled upon The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. It seems to be an organization thats main focus is "trying to understand the information revolution." Their goals seem to be very...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
News Anchors vs. Journalists
Most news anchors arent journalists but the most prominent ones that I have come across seem to do both. In order to become a news anchor you dont really need to posess the skills of journalist. Local anchors often times dont even know exactly what they are going to be talking about untill they are about to be on the air. One the most popular anchors of modern time, Anderson Cooper, at least makes it seem like he knows what hes's talking about. If he is completly...
Friday, November 30, 2012
Youtube News Channels
I know I already posted about this topic but I think, that like I did with news websites, I should post a list of good youtube news sources. Each of these also provide links to other channels in partnership with the ones posted.
ABCNews
Source Fed
What's Trending
wgn
CNN
Of course these are...
Quiet: The Power of Introverts - Ep 1
Yet another video I found about intoverts and extroverts, this topic really fascinates me. I like that this one goes into more detail about the types of introverts (shy versus calm), and adresses the issue of introverts acting like extroverts in order to fit in bett...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Scholarships?
After hearing about someone in this class who was looking into scholarships regarding their topic I decided to see what I could find regarding journalism. There are tons of opprotunities availible but the majority (all) of them are spscifically for upperclassmen, and college students. I have found a couple that could be related to me but Im not sure if much will come out of it. Nevertheless I am looking more into it and maybe, if im lucky, something good will...
Writing Journalism
An article I read by The Guardian has helped me quite a bit in my pursuit to begin writing quality journalism. The biggest aspects that I took away from this article are that sucessful journalists need to be cunning, entertaining, and oftentimes able to throw out their inhibitions in order to get the good information on a topic. Articles are written very quickly and need to be very good in order to even make it into publications. If a journalist...
Monday, November 19, 2012
Youtube Journalism
Youtube is a budding hub for journalism channels are popping up covering an extremely wide variety of news topics. This type of user-generated content is really refreshing in the modern age. Not only can the news be spread faster than ever before, youtube journalism is completely free and even presents the opprotunity for the creators to earn money based on their fanbase. Some of my favorite channels that produce this content are: SourceFed The Phillip...
Current Project Status
I havent been very acttive in this blog lately because of the time needed on my latest project. This blog needs to become a tad more active so I plan to post something at least once a week. To catch you up from last time. I have finished If It Bleeds It Leads, it got a bit repititive towards the end but it was a good book and I'm glad to have read it because it will also be able to help me in my english paper which involves propaganda. The information, and...
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Love and Hate Chapter Two
Below is my latest post to my group blog. Honestly I think this edition is rather sub-par but I plan on working on different journalistic writing techniques to prevent this.
Hate is a powerful emotion. Election season brings out the most hate, and anger in people than any other time. Opposing beliefs bring can bring out the worst in people. In the digital age Facebook, Twitter, and other social medias provide a platform for political...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
New Project Alert!!
I have been working on a new project regarding assesment literacy in my gifted class....here is our progress thus far.
For updates look on our new blog.Task/Project StatementWe plan to implement a program which will allow students to meet with a teacher after tests or quizzes. In this meeting they will discuss what the student is struggling with and how the student can work to improve on these areas. Assignment(s) will be given to practice these techniques...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Brainstorm, Thoughtstorm
I'm "constructing" the premise of my next chapter for my group blog The Third Quartet as I speak type. Because this blog is supposed to be a way to display my effort, I'm trying to make sure I love everything posted there. There are infinite topics I could write about. Of these topics there are very few I am knowledgeable on, and many fewer that I can find an angle to write about with the love and hate theme. My plan now is to try and write...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
RSAnimate
Several days ago I posted a video documenting the advantages and disadvantages of intro/extroversian. The personality test we took resulted in me being labeled an INTJ. When we discussed this in class I realised how much I related to this personality type. RSA shorts produced this video in order to educate people on the first letter, whether it be I, or E, of their personality types. I really enjoyed this video, and because of it I decided to investigate more...
Friday, October 26, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Interview Questions
As I continue to try and interview more people I have created a list of questions that I plan on asking these people. These will be the base questions that I have written that will be generic enough to ask to the majority of journalists. If I encounter more people with different backrounds I will add or subtract questions that relate to them accordingly.
How do you feel about the shift in popularity from print news (newspaper, magazines, etc.) to web based...
Monday, October 22, 2012
Contact Progress
I just sent out an email to a new bunch of journalism experts. This time I focused on contacting professors (and assistant, assosiate, knight, managing professors if thats any different) from Northwestern. Someone told me the Medill section of Northwestern was a very good journalism school, so I decided to check it out. The faculty seems to be quite esteemed. My hopes of them contacting me back arent too high. Last time only one person actually answered me...
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Collab. Blog Chapter One: Love and Hate
In journalism you must adapt or die. Ignoring the advances in technology has proven deadly for countless news publications. As the internet grows so does the amount of information available on it. Newspapers and magazines are now being threatened by various news websites. This internet based content is easier to find, cheaper, and more eco-friendly than its print counterparts. These advantages have proven very important as companies rush to catch up. Most...
Friday, October 19, 2012
If It Bleeds It Leads Analysis
Yesterday in class we discussed alternate means of displaying the information we have gathered. I attempted to film a "vlog" on this topic and have decided, at least for now, this is not for me. The book that I have been reading If It Bleeds It Leads has continued to entertain me in its explaining of why television news does what it does. Each minute of a broadcast is examined and the tactics news anchors use to play with the viewers emotions are explained....
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Field Research Interview: Lee Filas
I would like to thank Lee Filas of the Daily Herald for answering my questions about journalism.
Why did you decide to go into journalism?
[Filas, Lee] I chose journalism because I wanted to make a difference in society. Journalists have long been the public watch dogs, and been on the front lines, fighting for what is right - and wrong - in society.
How long have you been a journalist?
[Filas, Lee] It depends on the criteria. I became a part time journalist...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Outliers Analysis
In reading Outliers, the most interesting thing to me was the passage about being born in the correct time or place to be good at a specific thing. I wonder whether or not I was born somewhere or sometime that will allow me to be successful. The other main problem with this is whether or not the field I was “born to do” is around today, or if it is a career of the future. I don’t feel as if my circumstances will allow me to be brilliant at any one thing....
Friday, October 5, 2012
In which I tell you things you really dont want to know.
I feel like I've been slacking on the blog-front. That may seem rediculous to you but all this set-up work I'm doing in order to get to the heart of my intrests is going too long. I'm going to be researching more and trying to post more on this blog, and ESPECIALLY on my group blog which will hopefully be seeing its first post(s) in the coming weeks. Here is (yet another) list of things I want to acomplish as soon as possible.
-READ: I need to get into reading...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Basic Outliers Response
I was told I needed to post a rudimentary response to Outliers so here are a couple of journals I have written during class relating to this topic.
10,000 Hours
I have spent most of my active time playing, or practicing basketball. I practice a lot at home and at camps learning. This is a newer pursuit to me so I don’t have a ton of hours spent at this pursuit, but I am continually practicing this in order to get better. This is not my intellectual pursuit...
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Homecoming Assignment
This post isnt really for this class but I had a prompt for english where I could write in any format I wanted. So of course I decided to kill two birds with one stone and do a journalism style essay. I haven't actually read the book about how to be a journalist yet. This essay is kind of like a before point in my journey to become a journalism master. Hopefully one day I will be able to look back at this post and laugh at how terrible I was. Here goes nothing.....
Palatine...
Group Project, Progress and Problems
This I going to be basically a live post so I'm just going to be writing as I get ideas.
People havent seemed to think to much about the project since last meeting.
We need the software to produce (Ryans) posts.
Im not very famillar with the google sites format.
We need a timeline, when each character does the actions in a specific story, Old age-remembering past experiances,
Topics:
Introduction
Job
War (Conflict)
First/Last Day
This post may be updated...
Monday, September 24, 2012
Fundamentals Of Journalism
Today is the day of the random posts, youre just going to have to deal with that for now. I just wanted to share a picture of the second book I plan on reading on journali...
Suggestions.
Ok so I have a lot of planned post topics and things I'm going to unveil in the coming months. I was just wondering if anybody else had topic ideas/suggestions/critisism for me. Feel free to leave it in the comments.
-Victo...
Sunday, September 23, 2012
If It Bleeds It Leads
I decided I should probably show you the book I'm going to be/have been reading and analyzing. So here it is, I got it at my local library, I got a bunch more books that I will probably be reading as well. ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
If It Bleeds It Leads: Rundown, Disclaimer
I've began reading my first journalism book for the year. It is entitled If It Bleeds It Leads: An anatomy television news. The book seems to compare the different kinds of journalists. It's mission thus far is to show how much talk show hosts and the hard hitting journalists you watch everyday actually have in common. Because this book is a little old, some of the specific people they mention arent actually on the air anymore. I dont think this makes any...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Looking To The Future By Learning From The Past
I hope to start making more "regular" posts here and the majority of them will be relating to the books I (plan on) reading. The majority of these books do involve techniques and information relating to radio, television, and print. This information will hopefully guide me along to knowledge relating to more modern forms of news, the internet in particular. I feel like these medias are more alike than they are different. Each of them deliver the news in a...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
The Ramblings of A Crazy Person
The first thing that went through my mind, as I assume it went through the minds of my classmates is when we got our class assignment is one that's been bothering me for quite a while. Our topic is supposed to be our life's focus, the interest to end all interest. Is journalism the thing that I want to do with my life.
The simple answer to that question is yes, but so many other things challenge me with this decision. I would...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Background
I have been watching the news for as long as I can remember. Television has always been a big part of my life, for better or worse, and I have learned so many things that way. As I got older and my interest (obsession) with the internet grew it became another new way for me to learn what is going on in the world. I spend a lot of my time on websites that mix journalism and entertainment. Because of this I have learned a lot about things...
Monday, September 10, 2012
Topic Tags
I just decided to post a list of some of the topics I will be blogging about this year and the tags to them if you want to see every post about a topic, once I get started that is :)
USA
World
Politics
Justice
Entertainment
Tech
Money
Lifestyle
Sports
I...
Introduction To The Internet
At this moment I am sitting at my computer with eight of the most popular and well-known news websites displayed, eight pages that serve millions of people knowledge about the world around them daily . Each page is displaying similar news articles but each seems to have its own opinion and a different way it delivers news to the people that visit it.
cnn.com
cnn displays the most multi-media on its front page. A variety of pictures, articles, and...
Friday, September 7, 2012
Mission Statement
This is my mission statement for this blog.
The mission of this blog is to provide an outlet, and a way to share my studies in the subject of journalism in my Critical Thinking class this school year. I will be sharing interesting articles that I come across from various news sources and giving my own opinion, and point of view on the news. A variety of sources including television and the internet covering any topics that I find interesting and/or...
