Final Projects

Here are the final projects produced by the 12 students in JOUR3098.

Website Name
URL
Student

Music in Storrs
musicinstorrs.wordpress.com
stephenortiz

The App Store and UConn
appstoreuconn.wordpress.com
mikestric

The Nature of Connecticut
thenatureofconnecticut.wordpress.com
colleenkay

Sexual Assaults at UConn
uconncampuscrime.wordpress.com
marianario

A Capoeira Webshell
uconncapoeira.wordpress.com
ahl05002

UConn Goes Green
uconngoesgreen.wordpress.com
jasonb12

Connecticut Teen Drivers
jkk05001.wordpress.com
jkk05001

Technology & Education
joshclarke.wordpress.com
jdc99003

UConn Ticket Tailspin
jourfinalproject.wordpress.com/about
smm07008

Fantasy Leagues
katiecoll.wordpress.com
cmc05007

Thread City Style
threadcitystyle.blogspot.com
dorawilkenfeld

UConn Votes 2008
uconnvotes2008.wordpress.com
letterbox12

Fun Tag Clouds

Check out this fun tag cloud generator.
http://www.wordle.net
“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to [...]

Audio Alone Just Doesn’t Cut It

Since Keith Olbermann was an anchor for ESPN back in the day, I was a big fan of his broadcasting style. When he made the move to hard news, and anchoring “Countdown” on MSNBC, I was equally interested in watching him. I try to watch Olbermann and his wacky leftist ideas almost every [...]

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Thou shalt not steal (content).

My friend Rilla Bailey is an illustrator. When she was around 12 years old, she started drawing a copyright symbol next to her signature on every sketch she created.
This gave me a chuckle as I thought there was a bit more of a process one had to go though to make something copyrighted than slapping [...]

Consumers in Control

The days when a select few broadcasters determined what should constitute as news, how news should be distributed, and who should receive news are long in the past. An aspect of today’s journalism has consumers deciding how news should be distributed, who should receive news and, most importantly to the professional journalist, for what [...]

Your Future Audience Wants…

What will the next generation of media consumers want? A new report from the Digital Youth Project offers some keen insight. Based on an extensive three-year study, the report details how kids in the United States use digital media in their everyday lives.
Points for journalists to consider:
Community. Teens live their online lives connected within communities. [...]

Picture of channel 30 studio

This picture does not say much to you guys, but to me it represents a long journey from purchasing a camera to actually getting it online. Finally!

A model for online journalism?

The New York times recently had an article about voiceofsandiego.org, a journalism publication that is solely online. It made a name for itself by going places where other San Diego media had not, mainly with investigation into local government corruption and mismanagement.
The unique thing about it is that it’s only online, which [...]

SURIVOR… do you have what it takes

The world is changing. Every day new technogoly is being created or becoming more advanced people in every type of career are finding hard to keep up with the younger generations creating all of this.
Journalism is no different. Print is starting to become less prevelant now that consumers of media can go online and read [...]