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Orientation Video
Last week, I brushed up on my video editing skills by doing a video package on New Student Orientation here at Middlebury. It’s a little rough around the edges but check it out: Tagged: Media, Middlebury
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Freshmen Follow
I’m doing a ongoing series following two freshmen through their first year. This is the first part. Talking heads — next edition will have some B-roll tape (B-roll: people in their environment…)...
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Dining Hall Delights
My latest video kicking off a series on taking dining hall staple foods and creating gourmet dishes. Tagged: Media, Middlebury
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Freshmen Follow, Part Two
The second video following two freshmen through their first year. Watch the first video. Tagged: Media, Middlebury
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Susan Burch
This is my latest video work on MiddleburyCampus.com: a profile of Susan Burch, Director for the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) on campus. Tagged: Media, Middlebury
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On WordPress and Weekends
I’ve spent the last few weekends brushing up on my coding, design, and WordPress installation skills by working on a new site for MiddleburyCampus.com, the school newspaper. It was a bit of an...
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Job Search and Rescue
I tried to keep secret where I applied to college during my senior year in high school. Most of my friends at least tried to exercise some discretion as well so that we had some semblance of privacy....
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Guanxi vs. Social Networking
If you ask a Chinese person how to get a job, they’d say guanxi. Use your connections — parents, friends, etc. The instances of the son of a friend getting a job despite iffy qualifications are...
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Organizing Without A Base
We were aiming for 30 people. We got eleven to show up at the recycling center on a Saturday morning last week. Why? In a college community, how hard could it be get people to show up for a fun morning...
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Seeing Earth and Sky
In my last post, I shared the trials of organizing people to do a “viral” video. This post shows off a more traditional documentary piece my group did for Sustainable Television, my last class ever at...
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A Web Makeover
Another project I wrapped up post-graduation — The Middlebury Web Makeover. In Fall 2008, I was invited to be part of a small group overseeing Middlebury College’s website “redo.” The school needed a...
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Middkid Rap vs. Yale Musical
Compare: This Middlebury student-created “Middkid Rap”: AND This video, a 17-minute musical treatise from Yale: I don’t pretend to be a higher ed admissions guru but as a social media guy, I take an...
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On College Media
On CoPress and Huffington Post College: Ever since I somehow got myself involved in launching a website for the Middlebury Campus, I relied moderately on the resources (people, wikis and forums) and...
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Redesigns and Living Stories
Gosh, people hate website redesigns. But it’s amplified when you redesign a website for news bloggers who promptly blog about the redesign that didn’t involve them… Andrew Sullivan on the new Atlantic...
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Am I a Video Activist?
From Boston Globe this morning, “For young activists, video is their voice“: While serious in purpose, video activism sometimes draws on the approach pioneered by entertainment-oriented videos. A group...
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The Gentle Reminder
I’ve noticed an increased usage of “gentle reminders” — emails that try to use a courteous/polite way of saying: “I know you deleted my last email but I’m going to try to get through to you again.” You...
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Look Mom, I’ve Been Reading!
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan has been on the bestseller list for forever and a day. But I started into this 400 pager as an introduction to thinking about Food with a capital F. Food is an...
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Kindergartners vs. MBA students
I went to a lecture by Walter Pincus yesterday and hearing that the internet journalism was just a fad was not good for my ego. But I won’t dwell on the fact that Pincus stuck to corporate print...
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Library Short
This is what happens when I have a new camera and a half hour to mess around. Looking forward to more video projects, short and long, this summer. Tagged: Media, Middlebury, Technology
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3…2…1… You’re Live
November 4th, 2008 was probably the first time I tried out any type of “live” coverage. I used ScribbleLive to cover Election Day for MiddBlog. We had a bunch of contributors all pile in their comments...
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