Honestly, and I’m not sucking up: I enjoyed this class immensely. I was interested in the subject matter each and every week. Almost all the readings and assignments were engaging. I was excited to participate each week on the discussion boards. The interaction with both you and my classmates was extremely rewarding, and I grew [...]
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Final post pt. 2
Posted in Musings on December 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Final post pt. 1
Posted in Musings on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My biggest takeaway from this course can be summarized by a quote from Kurt Vonnegut, from our first module:
“Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you’re writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which [...]
Final: Tar Nation
Posted in Musings on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks so much for the feedback on this original content assignment. I was happy with what I was able to get together for our purposes, and I agree that there is a lot of potential here. I’m serious about pursuing it, though perhaps after this program. I think there’s a lot of potential there. I’ve [...]
Final: Press release
Posted in Musings on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s my re-edited press release for the final.
Module 14/Final: FAQs
Posted in Musings on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Like you, I was pretty happy with my FAQs for Tar Nation as part of the Module 13 assignment. But I reworked it some more for the purposes of this week’s assignment and the final, to add some navigation aids as well as a few more questions.
Check it out here.
Thanks!
Module 13: Tar Nation
Posted in Musings on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have created a whole new site for my young UNC alumni network Web site, now called Tar Nation. With this assignment, I wanted to do more than some simple writings, though I have plenty on the site. I wanted to create an interactive site of interest to young alumni. And even though it’s what [...]
Module 12: Press release
Posted in Musings on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wilmington Star-News Press Alert
Community Interaction Division
1003 S. 17th Street
Wilmington, NC 28402
Contact: Ryan C. Tuck, community interaction manager
910.398.5757
ryan.tuck@starnewsonline.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Star-News launches new prep sports Web site
Prep sports fans can find message boards, photo galleries, player profiles
Observations
Posted in Musings on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
First, live blogging a sports game is tough.
Live blog: Patriots v. Colts
Posted in Musings on November 4, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My thoughts on the experience will be attached in a separate post. Also, I thought you’d like to see a live blog post I “coached” the other day from one of our reporters here. She told me about the incident late, so I only had an hour or so to prepare her (I showed her [...]
Week 9: The Young Alumni Network
Posted in Musings on October 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
For this week’s continuation assignment, I will address questions raised from week 8, and I will further explain my proposal.
First, my responses to questions from my week 8 post:
First, what will be in it for young alumni to participate? How will their involvement be incented? Encouraged?
Like any online forum, there won’t be any outward incentive [...]
