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VIDEO REFERENCES I’ve changed the topic of my video project to Libraries in the Digital Age and I’ve gathered the following YouTube videos as references.
Our Digital Media II class went to the State of Now 140 conference in Hutchinson, KS. The conference was essentially about digital media and how it plays a role in small towns. Our class was there running some video cameras and a telecaster. I got to work with the telecaster that day for the first […]
VIDEO REFERENCES For my research project I chose the topic Distance Education and I’ve gathered the following YouTube videos as references. OTHER REFERENCES http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Evaluation+of+distance+education+components%3a+a+case+study+of…-a0289620448 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bachelor%27s+degree+completion+students%27+perceptions+of+their+online…-a0257677525 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/We%27re+not+in+Kansas+anymore!-a0236634959 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Online+College+Boasts+Record+Number+of+Graduates+Inducted+into…-a0264342143 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Distance+education%3a+is+it+art+or+is+it+science%3f-a0195427996 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+are+they+doing%3f+Examining+student+achievement+in+virtual…-a0195427995 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Going+the+distance%3a+online+education+helps+R.T.s+reach+their+goals.-a0168354523 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Importance+of+Distance+Learning+University+Courses-a01074327702 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Comparison+of+levels+of+satisfaction+with+distance+education+and…-a0290520531 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Degrees+Are+Almost+a+Part+and+Parcel+of+a+Man-a01074458686 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Survey+finds+new+regulations+vexing+distance+educators.-a0290733184 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=keyword&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80627b6e&accno=ED526879&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=keyword&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80628a3a&accno=EJ973022&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=keyword&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80633eab&accno=EJ979610&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=keyword&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80625966&accno=EJ971041&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=keyword&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b8049aa03&accno=EJ953428&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=advanced&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=11&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=and&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_1=kw&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80627de6&accno=EJ972578&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=advanced&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=11&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=and&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_1=kw&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b8063364d&accno=EJ979134&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=advanced&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=11&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=and&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_1=kw&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b8048f979&accno=EJ946636&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=advanced&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=11&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=and&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_1=kw&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b8060c1f8&accno=EJ965052&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=advanced&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=11&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=and&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_1=kw&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80492ef3&accno=ED527058&_nfls=false http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=advanced&pageSize=10&ERICExtSearch_SearchCount=1&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=distance+education&eric_displayStartCount=11&ERICExtSearch_Operator_1=and&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_1=kw&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80631472&accno=EJ976931&_nfls=false 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STILLS The following are examples of different camera shots taken from Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Breakdown. In this episode a man (played by Joseph Cotton) shows no emotion and ridicules those that do. He gets in a car accident and becomes paralyzed but everyone thinks he is dead. They take his body to the morgue […]
I commented on the following blogs. 10 year old Gracie from Canada http://thegreatestbooksofthecentury.blogspot.com/2012/03/whats-best-book-youve-ever-read.html?showComment=1334065401144#c3564741717650784819 11 year old Clarissa from Arizona http://blogs.goaj.org/clarissa2012hamman/2012/03/03/a-few-months-ago/#comments 12 year old Isabelle from California http://im0092.edublogs.org/2012/03/13/me-myself-and-i/#comment-8 I chose this age range because my oldest daughter falls into it; she’s eleven. Since taking Digital Media I’ve been considering starting her up with a blog of […]
The fist step in my brainstorming was to think what I would want my country to be like. I thought of our own country and how it was founded on religion. What I find sad is that now we are the third largest unchurched nation in the world. How did we get to that? I […]
This American Life unfortunately had to make its first retraction and it was of one of its most popular stories, “Mike Daisey and the Apple Factory.” Although a journalist’s job is to be sure of the truth before it is made public, I in no way hold Ira Glass responsible for what I believe to be the fault […]
Radio Lab’s podcast Parasites had a couple of themes that were mentioned periodically. One was mind control; certain bugs use mind control on other bugs, animals, rodents, and maybe even humans. Another theme that was touched on was the idea of cheats versus honest creatures; the cheats being the parasites that live off of other […]
I can’t believe I actually figured out how to extract audio from video. Yes!!! Most of the sounds I used are sound that I like (these sounds are in blue) and a few others are just anything I could come up with. The url to these sounds is http://soundcloud.com/kmcarpenter5816/10-different-sounds. The sounds are described as follows: 1. Popcorn popping 2. Water spraying onto a pan […]
I never desired a lot of money. My husband plays the lottery all the time hoping that one day he’ll score big. He wants to be able to give his family all that he thinks we deserve. What he fails to realize is that I’m being honest in saying that I don’t want to win ...
This American Life’s Podcast “What I Did For Love” consisted of four acts. This wasn’t my favorite of podcasts but Act three was really enjoyable. Act 1: Best Laid Plans was about a man named Kurt Braunohler. He and his girlfriend came up with this really stupid plan to sleep with other people before they ...
This American Life’s podcast “Conventions” was made up of three different acts. I enjoyed all three acts and felt that I could on some level relate to the first and could definately relate to the third. Act 1: Dark Shadows was about a man named John Conners who went to a convention for viewers of ...
Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, KS but grew up in Chicago Illinois were the family moved to when she was just six weeks old. Brooks had her first poem published in a children’s magazine when she was just thirteen years old and by the time she was sixteen she had about ...
Eva Jessye was born on January 20, 1895 in Lawrence, KS and was educated at the historically black Kansas university name Western University. In 1919 she became the chior director at Morgan State in Baltimore. In 1926 she created her own group the Eva Jessye Choir origonally named the Origonal Dixie Jubilee Singers. Jessye is most remembered for ...
Hattie McDaniel was born on June 10, 1895 in Wichita, KS but when her father remarried in 1901 the family was relocated to Denver, CO. Growing up McDaniel sang at school, home, and church and before long was singing in professional minstrel shows and writing her own songs. In 1910 when she was a sophomore ...
Until recent decades women were treated so inferiorly. Our place was in kitchen. We were destined to be mere housewives and mothers. To see women in the early 1900′s rise above that is amazing and women of a minority even more so. These African-American women are inspirations and deserve to be honored as such. That is ...
Summary of This American Life podcast “Reap What You Sow” This American Life’s podcast “Reap What You Sow” was mostly about illigal immigrants and a bill that was past in Alabama. The bill (HB56) is strict and is based on the idea of attrition throught enforcement or self deportation. The basic idea is to make life so bad ...
Famous African Americans with Kansas ties
1) First and Second Kansas Colored Infantry
2) Carol Parks Hahn and the Dockum Drug Store sit-in
3) Benjamin “Pap” Singleton and the Exodusters
4) George Washington Carver
5) Langston Hughes
6) Gord...
Summary of This American Life podcast “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” This podcast was from a piece that Mike Daisey did for his radio show. Technology is his hobby and his favorite manufacturer is Apple. When Daisey becomes curious where his favorite products come from he travels to China to find out. He explores what goes on ...