I've actually had a pretty good time in class this year but it is time to say goodbye I hope my efforts were not all in vain and that on day some kid will stumble upon this blog and learn from my experiences and my mistakes but until then this is goodb...

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Arkyd: A crowdsourced satellite

http://techland.time.com/2013/05/30/arkyd-is-a-crowdfunded-orbital-space-telescope-you-can-control/ I saw this today and like the 3d printed food article I just couldn't ignore it. I have been stalking the tech section of google news lately and this is just what happens. But there is a major space...

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Where I find infographics: Tumblr

Tumblr is a popular blogging site that I spend waaay to much time on. However over the course of the year I have been able to use this site as a source for infographics as well as inspiration for where I want to go in my blog. The blog visualgraphic.tumblr.com has a lot of really cool infographics and...

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First 3D Printed Food!

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20887 This isnt what I normally post but I thought this article was to cool to ignore. It is crazy how far science has come and how awesome it would be to eat a 3D printed pizza, even if its just protein layer flav...

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How News Sources Address Disasters

This is just how I have noticed that most news sources report on big disasters like the tornado in Oklahoma. This is mostly specific to TV and Internet sources. 1) Breaking the story- the reporter quickly explains the circumstances and any known details, there is often a lot of confusion and the details are not correct. 2) Continuing coverage- getting more details from people who are actually there, death/injury toll begins to more accurately reflect the truth....

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How news must adapt for modern technology.

stateofthemedia.org/2013/digital-as-mobile-grows-rapidly-the-pressures-on-news-intensify/ The state of the media 2013 reports by journalism.org include a lot of really interesting articles about problems facing modern journalists. It is definitely a long read but I have included the pictures because...

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Family Project

I have been googleing some of my family members names to see if I could find articles about them. My cousin Kate is one of the womens softball coaches at Hofstra University and there have been quite a few articles written about the awesome season they are having this year. This is actually her first year at this position; she used to do almost the same thing at West Point and if I can find an article from her time there i will post it. Hofstra Softball This...

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What makes an infographic cool?

http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/5/8/tiago-veloso-what-makes-an-infographic-cool.html This artice thing came from the website that I get most of the infographics that I review from. I like how they analyze infographics and the making of infographics. Anyone who wants to make infographics should check this and the whole website out because it does a really good job at analyzing infographics and their featur...

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Family History Project

This website has a lot of information about my great-grandfathers ship and all of the things created about it. Books about the USS Mason ProudDVD based on the true and heroic story of the USS Mason, a Navy battleship manned by an African-American crew during WWII, when segregation was still...

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Styles of infographics #2

Historical infographics are really popular. I believe this is because infographc are easily created from timelines and timelines are a huge part of history. These could also fall under the category of educational infographics but I believe these are so popular they deserve their own post. Again if...

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Will Richardson Ted Talk

We watched a Ted talk about making the learning process different and better. Although I love and try to use some of the ideas he speaks about in my everyday life. I have an ipad, in fact I'm on it right now. I can use the ipad to teach me everything my teachers are supposed to and way more. I utilize the opportunities given to me in order to help me be more successful in learning and life. The learning system that I am deeply engulfed in is troubled. The...

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Styles of infographics.

So I haven't been on here as much this month because I have been really trying to boost the progress and group moral of my group blog but I have been working on a little series of posts where I  compare some popular styles of infographics. I have no idea how long I am going to do this or how many...

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Boston Explosion Infographic

Here are some infographics I found about the Bombings in Boston. They help visualize what happened and put it into some perspective. Some of them are kind of small but I tried to get the best quality/biggest version. This one is my favorite its actually a gif. If you check out the website...

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The importance of social media during a tragedy.

The idea for this post has come to my mind too many times recently. I'm not sure if this era has caused more tragedies or if it is publicising them more but modern journalism seems to rely heavily on tragic events. One of my teachers was talking about some information she had learned from a seminar on how to act during a school shooting. She said that we should stay off all social media and resist posting what is going on to twitter and to not try to contact...

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Post Winning Entries

I am going to post some of the sample winning entries from the competition website. There are some really good ones in here. I don't know what to expect when I get there but If its anything like this I will definitely need to step up my skills a bit before the competition. My main goal is not to win...

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Making infographics.

Yesterday I made an infographic following the guidelines of the practice prompt for the journalism competition. But as I went to save it I messed something up and it deleted. I still wanted to document the progress I have made so I drew a very rough sketch of what I had made. I created this infographic...

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Family Project: Farrell

Exhibit offers insight into African American WWII Sailors My great-grandpa Farrell was a captain of the U.S.S. Mason during World War II. His ship was one of the very first with a predominately black crew. I am going to focus some of my family project on him. The article I linked describes the ship...

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Pandora vs. Spotify

I posted some time ago about how pandora a algorithms are cool/scary. I found this infographic pretty eye opening on how many more songs/people are on it. This infographic kind of makes me want to try out spotify as well. It's pretty cool how this kind of comparison can make you want to do one thing...

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The Mobile Phone Turns 40

Happy Birthday Mobile Phones Today arguably the most valuable aspect of modern journalism and communication. Mobile devices are such an important part of my studies. Without them I doubt life would be the sa...

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Family Project Update

Yesterday was Easter and I used it as an opportunity to advance my project. Honestly, the most interesting person in my family is my grandfather on my dads side. He is currently in the early stages of dementia so I try to get stories from my dad and his siblings. His belongings are a great...

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Google Trends: Infographics

I was on Cool Infographics and I saw that they had embedded the graph from google trends. It is really cool how much the interest has gone up in the past two years. I believe that the interest will continue to grow in the future and more advancements will be made in the field. I'm pretty excited...

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Infographics Used In Marketing

So I know this infographic has nothing to do with my line of study but I really like when companies use infographics in this way.  The pictures are really pretty and it makes me want to go to PF Changs; I've never been but if the food looks half as good as it is in this infographic I'd...

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Infographics

I don’t know about this class but in english we are supposed to treat wikipedia like the gritty underbelly of the internet. However, I feel that you can find a lot of important information on wikipedia so this post is going to be all of the really important/interesting things I find on the infographics...

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Technology Free Day

So on Wednesday we had a technology free period. I didn't really want/like it at the time because I actually had a plan for a post, they will come next week. Anyways I decided to draw a infographic about basically nothing because I was planning on making one already. But I like the idea of having a...

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