The Next Blog Assignment for Section 3, Intro to Media Arts

Dear Students:

As part of this week's grade for your Intro to Media Arts course you will create and publish a Media Arts Blog Entry, much like all of the ones I posted this semester. You will pick a topic of choice/interest that is related in some way to the study of media arts.

For instance, Alex Vukasin has an interest (which quite frankly confounds me) in professional hockey. He may choose to research the early days of "The Great One". And if you don't know who "The Great One" is, you should have already clicked on the link above!! (hah.)

Commercial break: this is a video we watched in class:



Anyway, Alex may be searching for images or videos as well as web sites that focus on the high school career of "The Great One". Then he will write up a short blog complete with media elements, including links, pictures and videos.

For more information on this assignment, please ask about it during our next class.

Thank you.

Mr. Hoban
(not "The Great One")

Alex Vukasin: This Post's For You!!

Based on our discussion in class today, work on the homework assignment (newspaper article for the 'closet incident') using this web link as a guide to your writing. Good luck. Email me your work if done by a reasonable hour tonight, or else I'll review it with you tomorrow. Good luck, Alex!

-Mr. Hoban

In The Closet With Hoban

Without writing too much about Friday's 8th period class, I figure it's best to look at a few pics and listen to the time spent in the dark with a group of media arts students!

Closet Case Study from Marty Hoban on Vimeo.

Mr. Hoban 'tazed' with a tesla coil!!

So Tell Me...

...what did you do in class today? Provide many, many details.

-Mr. Hoban

This Post's For You (unfortunately it's after 10 pm...how many of you will be up to read it?)

I've had some fun tonight going through the interactive map of today's Front Pages on the Newseum's website. What a great resource, I can't get over it. Seriously! (Please...stop with the snide remarks you're currently making!)

I was poking around, trying to determine how many newspapers across this great land of ours covered a front page mention of the Kent State Shootings. The answer: not many. Indeed, it was slim pickins as I searched most of the dots on the map. Then I decided to check "the biggies" only: Boston Globe, Miami Herald, L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and finally USA Today. Only on this last entry did I find a story on the front page. Check it out here, complete with a video narrated by one of the survivors of that day.

Interestingly though, I found one more front page story from a newspaper published in the vicinity of Washington D.C. It made for an interesting read and I wondered about who the publisher was as I read on. A little lesson in "don't believe everything you read" is evident as you read between the lines of the story (and then by performing a little online investigation on the background of this particular newspaper.) What can you find out about it? Why does it matter? Anyway, here's another picture to build up the visual content on our blog:

Online Research: Akron Beacon Journal May 3, 2010

Study the front page of today's Akron Beacon Journal. (You can click on the image, then hit control + to enlarge the image.) Any mentions of Kent State to be found? Look for the relevant link on this front page and enter it in the web address/url box of your browser. Investigate the Kent State Shooting articles from the past forty years that the Akron Beacon Journal covered. Be prepared for a lively discussion in class.

BONUS REQUEST!!!!

How good are your web surfing skills? Can you locate what the online source is of this front page image of today's Akron Beacon? Where on the web does a database of newspaper front pages exist? Write your findings in the comments section.

Happy Hunting!!

-Mr. Hoban