Our team has decided to focus on unsafe behaviors that students today are facing and taking a part in. We are exploring such areas as prescription drug use, risks of tanning, stress induced alcohol abuse, as well as broader categories of long-term unsafe behaviors and short-term unsafe behaviors. We have all decided to compile our work into a miniature multimedia magazine, which will include links to other useful information, and a pdf-format for online use. Our magazine will be able to inform students of important risks of certain college lifestyles whether they were aware of them before or not.
Our group consists of four individuals, all from very different backgrounds. This has helped us to construct a piece of work coming from four very different angles. Matt Warden has decided to take on the subject of prescription drug use among college students, more specifically the use of ADD medication because of his knowledge on the subject. Warden is a Senior NMC student who enjoys airplanes and playing the guitar. Yessenia Alarcon, an avid tanner, has decided to write about tanning and its effects. Alarcon is also an NMC student with a focus in advertising. Rick Chandler, an NMC student, is taking on the long-term effects and short-term effects of unsafe behavior, such as driving while distracted and smoking and drinking. Chandler wanted to make sure that these topics were covered. Natalie Moser will be looking at stress among students today and what they are resorting to because of it and what they can do about it. Moser, like the others is an NMC, who definitely understands stress.
Introducing the Green Team:
As members of the ‘Green Team,’ we have recognized that global warming is a serious issue that affects all of us. Our focus for this assignment is the impact of global warming on our lives and how we as students can take action and combat the effects of global warming. Throughout the term, this Writing for the Media Professional class has introduced us to a new and vital form of communication – blogging. As we each agreed that blogging is a great way to express our ideas and views on a particular issue that concerns all of us, we decided that we will present our group project in the form of a blog. This will allow other bloggers to communicate with us as well as indicate how they feel about global warming and the issues that we raise. By choosing the blog as our form of presentation, we were then able to present our research in different ways.
While we have discovered that there are many student groups at OSU who have joined together to raise awareness of the effects of global warming, there are also a number of students who know very little about how their actions and daily choices are affecting the future of our environment. A particular student group that we have chosen to focus on is the Solar Vehicle Team. This group has designed and created a solar powered vehicle to compete in the 2008 North American Solar Challenge. We interviewed each member of the group and they provided us with a number of positive reasons why such a project is just one example of the ways students at OSU can get involved and promote the benefits of a green environment. We decided that our interviews with various members of the SVT would best be represented as a documentary and so Lindsey chose to accelerate her passion for film production and should be credited for her filming and editing skills.
We then decided that it was important to learn about global warming from professors who have a particular interest in this issue. Jake chose to interview Nicholas Drapellar, who is known for his outspoken opinions on how and why global warming does not exist, whilst Hannah spoke to Steve Cook, who confirmed that global warming is a problem that we must address. These conflicting views provided us with an interesting perspective on the issue in its entirety. Finally, we decided that it was important to collaborate the research that we found individually to create a ‘how to’ guide on conserving the environment and saving energy. We hope you enjoy our presentation and gain as much from the information we have provided you as we have!
Introduction to the Debt Team:
The biggest question of college life for not only students but their
families is how they are going to pay for it? With rising costs of
higher education, financial management is a issue that effects
everyone attending college, and the cost of a mistake – financially,
academically, and emotionally – can be severe.From a somewhat broad question of “what are students doing to help or
hurt themselves” and a greater focus on the financial aspect of that
topic, our story has come together rather organically out of our
interviews and questionnaires: we asked the question to as many
students and faculty members as we could find. Their answers edified
and surprised us.Matthew Johnson is a senior at Oregon State University and is majoring
in Liberal Arts with a New Media Communications option. He is 21 years
old and comes from the small town of Silverton Oregon.Theodore Mintesnot is a current student of Oregon State University. He
hails from Northeast Portland, his hometown, and currently remains
undeclared of an academic major.
June 3, 2008
June 3, 2008Facebook Project Introduction
For their final project this term, Sarah Foster, Adam Schwartz and Josh Harlukowicz decided to take an in-depth look at one of the largest social networks available; Facebook. Since its launch in 2004, this site has quickly grown to be immensely popular with not only students, but the general public. This project offers a look at the different effects Facebook can have on college students that they may or may not be aware of. Professional and psychological implications were the focus of this project, but they also provided and generous history of how Facebook came into creation. The project also offers multiple videos and surveys to support their research.
As members of the Green Team, we have recognized that global warming
is a serious issue that affects all of us. Our focus for this
assignment is the impact of global warming on our lives and how we as
students can take action and combat the effects of global warming.
Throughout the term, this Writing for the Media Professional class has
introduced us to a new and vital form of communication – blogging. As
we each agreed that blogging is a great way to express our ideas and
views on a particular issue that concerns all of us, we decided that
we will present our group project in the form of a blog. This will
allow other bloggers to communicate with us as well as indicate how
they feel about global warming and the issues that we raise. By
choosing the blog as our form of presentation, we were then able to
present our research in different ways.
While we have discovered that there are many student groups at OSU
who have joined together to raise awareness of the effects of global
warming, there are also a number of students who know very little
about how their actions and daily choices are affecting the future of
our environment. A particular student group that we have chosen to
focus on is the Solar Vehicle Team. This group has designed and
created a solar powered vehicle to compete in the 2008 North American
Solar Challenge. We interviewed members of the group and they provided
us with a number of positive reasons why such a project is just one
example of the ways students at OSU can get involved and promote the
benefits of a green environment. We decided that our interviews with
various members of the SVT would best be represented as a documentary
and so Lindsey chose to accelerate her passion for film production and
should be credited for her filming and editing skills.
We then decided that it was important to learn about global warming
from professors who have a particular interest in this issue. Jake
tried to interview Nicholas Drapela, who is known for his outspoken
opinions on how and why global warming does not exist, however
unfortunately this did not work out. Hannah spoke to Steve Cook, who
confirmed that global warming is a problem that we must address. This
feedback provided us with an interesting perspective on the issue in
its entirety.
Finally, we decided that it was important to collaborate the research
that we found individually to create a ?how to? guide on conserving
the environment and saving energy. We hope you enjoy our presentation
and gain as much from the information we have provided you as we have!
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Introducing members of the Green Team and how they have contributed to
this project:
Lindsey Pierce:
My name is Lindsey Pierce and I am 21. I transferred from Linfield
College to Oregon
State University after one year. This is my second year studying New
Media Communications at OSU. My focus is on video production. I grew
up in Tualatin, Ore. with my parents, older sister, and younger brother.
How I came up with my story:
I was researching on the Oregon State University Web site to find
environmental clubs. The most interesting one that I found was the
Solar Vehicle Team. The team was a good example of students making
positive choices to help the future of the environment, which is the
topic of our project. This type of club also seemed to lend itself to
a visual medium, so I decided to make a documentary about the club.
Hannah Boekemann:
My name is Hannah Boekemann and I am a senior in New Media and
Communications. I am 21 years old and I am currently studying at OSU
on a six-month exchange program. I am from Sydney, Australia and I
will be finishing my journalism degree at Charles Sturt University at
the end of this year. I have always had an interest in writing and the
communications industry and this Writing for the Media Professional
class has enabled me to explore my passion even further.
I feel that my strength is in writing and so I have aimed to work on
my writing and reporting skills throughout this group project.
However, I did enjoy learning about how to use the camera equipment as
well as uploading video footage onto the computer. I chose to work
with the green team because I know very little about global warming
and how it will effect our future. Speaking to students from the solar
vehicle team as well as a professor in geosciences has certainly
improved my knowledge and understanding of this topic. Whilst we have
chosen to speak to a number of different people, I interviewed Steve
Cook in order to find out his opinion on global warming as well as to
find out some ways that we can begin to combat global warming before
it?s too late. I therefore used the information that Cook provided me
with to write a mini profile story on him and the truth about the
current global climate. I also asked him some tips on how to save
energy and conserve the environment. I also did some research on
global warming so that I could form a ?how to? guide on ways that we
can all save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Jake Lowden:
My name is Jake Lowden; I am a
New Media Communications option. I am finishing my third year at
Oregon State University. I am twenty-one years old and I have lived
in Oregon City, Oregon my entire life. I am most interested in the
video production part of the New Media spectrum. In this project I
contributed in the filming of the video documentary about the Solar
Car Club.
Coming into this project I was sort of skeptic of Global Warming in
regards to whether it is true or not. After listening to many of the
members of the Solar Car Club express their opinions, I found that
even if Global Warming is only a theory, it can?t hurt to make the
necessary positive steps to fight Global Warming and improve the
environment.
