Thursday, January 22, 2009

Critic Homework

Talk to Tom Archer about the building renovations.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

11/19

Friday, November 14, 2008

Suggestions for The Critic Website

Eric
1. Ambient streaming music to soothe listeners while they read articles. Well, I suppose they could just install an add-on to their browser...

2. Interactive puzzles for the Fun (or entertainment section). Get a programming student to write some code.

3. A section for podcasts is more than necessary. We could also provide video supplements to some of the articles.

4. Link to or include a section for other student works, such as the uphill review. Poems and such from the community really look good coming from a campus.

5. List the Critic news team on the front page, including the web editor and fun page coordinator, yours truly. Maybe a contact link for people to submit things.

6. Get rid of all that damn latin.

7. Don't let Brian Howe touch my privates.

8. Use posted things in the opinion page of the paper if they are good.

9. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN Williams.

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Brian
1. Put the first paragraph of a story in the paper critic and say "if you want to read the rest of this, go to the critic online. NY Times style.

2. Interactive sports: scoreboard of teams around the area? Or just the scores for the most recent games. Link to ESPN?

3. Podcasts: "package" to a story. Explain stories on video or podcast.

4. Put the website all over the paper like sauerkraut on a hotdog.

5. Use more colors than just green and white so readers don't leave and go back to foxnews.com.
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Aimee
1. Get rid of latin $#@#*&.

2.MORE PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!11111111

3. Interatcive section for videos and podcasts. Post a video response.

4. Contact section for staff.

5. Better advertising???

6. Cut a deal with News 7. We advertise each other... link to their video.

7. Sunny with his guitar.
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Brittany
1. Change the DAAAAAAAAAATE!

2. Give the site a facelift. It's buttugly. Not like a collge site.

3. VIDEOS plz. Give TVS people experience. Record event, reporters, etc.
Footage of whatever we can get.

4. LOGO!!! Fill in that blank space.

5. Change the poll: something we can relate to. Every week? Make it so you can't vote a gazillion times.
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Amanda
1. Don't change the colors!

2. There should be something in that blank space next to TheCRITIC.

3. Latin is $#%@*.

4. Let students upload video.

5. No more ads plz; Don't make our readers scroll so much!
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Dan
1. Put the weather next to TheCritic in the header. Fire Brian Howe from News 7 so he can spend all his time with us.

2. Get the LSC Hornet to do a blog or soemthing similar for the website.

3.Umm umm... Could the Critic be a more popular site than Facebook? You could GO places. Music business industry folks.
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Tori
1. NO ^%#@#^* latin!

2. Fill in the links. No white space.

3. Section where students could post poems and short stories.

4. Photography students can be featured with pictures they took, etc.

5. Um. Maybe get a schedule of the fall sports season's games.
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Sam
1. A lot of the white space needs to vanish.

2. Calendar of sporting events.

3. Front page will have photos, but other sections need photos, too.

4. Slideshow of all the photos Eric Wayne takes (seriously he takes them all).

5. #%@$*& LATIN!!!!

6. Supplement the paper--don't repeat it.
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Heather
1. Keep the latin! First Latin online paper.

2. KISS: Keep it simple stupid.

3. Make it personalized. New fonts, etc. Make it sexy. Don't embellish the website. Just make it more personal to us.

4. Please have calendar of events on campus.

5. More ads can be important as long as they aren't horribly invasive.

4. You jerks stole all the ideas I had. I hate you and I'm disenrolling.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

For Friday

Look at lyndonstatecritic.edu

Five suggestions to make it better


Listen to Soundfall.

ELECTRIC SKYCHURCH KNOWONENESS 03 River Conscience

01-VA - Candy Flip-Solar Fields [7:25] - Candy Flip-Solar Fields

Friday, November 7, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27582147/


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27590778/


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27576844/

Online Awesome

CNN.com

Most impressive is the sheer amount of video on the site. Most stories have video, and a lot of them have written articles as well. Little icons next to the headlines tell you what kind of media the story is in.
Also, about three good scrolls get you to the bottom of most pages, rather than having enormously long pages.
The site is dated and timed for when it's updated, which lets readers know how current it is.
I'm especially impressed with the categories and how you can click on one if you want to see all stories from that category.
For those interested in the stock market, there's a constantly updated market ticker.
There are also nice features such as searching the site and typing in your zip code for weather information.
Readers can also enjoy podcasts and getting notifications in their email.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Dan F Williams

FRIDAY
Exercise 8-3 on mhe
Read pg. 158-159
Find 3 "ambitious and successful" examples of digital storytelling
For each example, explain what makes it effective: 250 words each.

Brian Howe touched me.