Warning: Final Project Under Construction

So after a few months of learning how to properly use Windows Movie Maker, we have finally made our first video that is based on the final project. My group decided to do ours on hunger and homelessness in the Lehigh Valley. The first place we visited were the New Bethany Ministries, which are located on a few minutes from campus. I hope you enjoy the video and just remember the project is still under construction and there is still a lot more great footage to come!

Collaborate and then Navigate

The second map I am featuring on my blog today is a map that the entire class worked together. This map features the public data on Megan's Law registered sex offenders in the city of Bethlehem, PA. Our professor enabled this collaboration by e-mailing each of us the map. After he did this, each group was responsible for finding the sex offenders within a certain zip code. I have to admit that it is kind of scary once you take a look at how many we found.


View Megan's Law: Registered offenders in Bethlehem, PA in a larger map

Lehigh Valley movie theaters- For all your viewing needs!

Today in lab we learned how to navigate, search, and create our own maps on Google. The map I personally created features various locations of movie theaters in the Lehigh Valley. So on the next rainy day or on the next day you have nothing to do, feel free to take a look at my map so that you can find the theater closest to you!



View Lehigh Valley movie theaters in a larger map

Here is this week's movie file, Our first in TV-Style!

Here is my group's video lab for this week! It's the first one we have done in TV-style, which basically means including different elements such as voiceovers in the background to make it seem more like a story you would view on your local news channel. I hope you enjoy it and I hope to be using the microphone more in the future for better sound quality!

The Kodak 1080P- Seems to be making students Furious, Instead of Curious

Dialogue

Me: Hey, my name is Alyssa Salem and I am conducting interviews about the recent snow storms for my multimedia reporting class. Would you mind taking a few minutes out of your time to do an interview?

Potential Intervieweee (or so I thought): Absolutely not!!!!!! Can't you see I am busy here? I mean it's four o'clock week, don't you have anything better to do with your time?

Ok, so I exagerrated a little. But in reality some people are just really rude when it comes to interviewing. Today I went to Ulrich to find some potential interviewees, and there was one girl sitting at a table all by herself waiting for the post office employees to get off their 15-minute break. Naturally, since she was just waiting around I figured that she wouldn't mind doing a short 2-minute interview. Boy was I wrong.

As soon as I started appraoching her I got a sense that she wasn't going to be the world's most pleasant human being. And when I asked her about the interview, this became even more apparent. Flipping through her pile of mail, she refused to even make eye contact with me and simply stated in a very annoyed tone: I'm really just not in the mood right now.

You're really just not in the mood right now?? Should I tell that to my teacher next time I have a presentation or exam? I'm sorry Professor but I'm really just not in the mood to make my presentation right now. I mean I have nothing else better to do but I just don't feel like it. Yea, just imagine what her professor would have said to that.

I'm sorry I don't mean to go on a rampage, I just wish people would be a little more considerate sometimes in life. Like Scott Hamilton once said, "the only disability in life is a bad attitude."