http://theuniversityofblog.com The Complete College Experience Mon, 24 May 2010 03:13:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had the fortune of participating in the NPR storytelling workshop. Two trainers from NPR visited campus to meet with a group of six enthusiastic radio students. I had some great takeaways from the day-long workshop. We spent the first part of the day talking about what made a good ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2010/05/23/npr-came-to-columbia/ I just applied to the "Best Internship on Earth." The Sierra Club's Outdoors Youth Ambassador intern will capture youth outdoor activities including the Inner City Outings, Volunteer Vacations and Building Bridges to the Outdoors. Take a look at the application video I filmed at Rock Bridge State Park: http://theuniversityofblog.com/2010/03/26/sierra-clubs-video-blogging-internship/ "Radio is storytelling without props" NPR Guru Michael Skoler shared some of his sounds from his radio days. Skoler has ten years of experience in public radio in addition to experience in video and the web. He is currently a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. I wanted to share some ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2010/03/22/having-fun-with-radio/ We're working on finalizing our project. With this comes focus groups. Last Monday we conducted one focus group of five people and another with three people this Monday. This was really helpful to be able to get a lot of feedback for our show. In our first focus group, we ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2009/12/15/finishing-up-the-semester/ This semester has flown by. Intersection has flown by. The last show I produced was on local foods. We had some great guests talk about how to make local choices, even when it's cold outside. Crops still grow! It helped that they were passionate and dynamic. I really enjoyed listening ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2009/12/03/wrapping-up-the-semester/ This week was a pretty good episode of Intersection. It challenged us because Reuben will be gone for the next couple of weeks. Janet served as the host and Lindsey and I produced the show solo. Janet was not as familiar with the teleprompter so she worked with a script, ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2009/11/20/cameras-downtown/ This Monday we had our show on Human Trafficking that I helped produce. I was really nervous about this show because it is a really hard topic to discuss, but I knew what points that I wanted to really highlight. One of them was identifying the issue in Missouri and ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2009/11/11/human-trafficking-show/ Our topic on Monday was Columbia's One Read book, “The Air We Breathe” by Andrea Barrett. In studio guests included Brad Lookingbill of Columbia College, Darwin and Axie Hindman and Lisa Saffran director of MU’s Masters in Public Health Program. It was a great discussion and Reuben said that ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2009/11/06/260/ This week I produced a show on cycling in Columbia.  Our guests included Ian Cheny of PedNet, Detective Jeff Westbrook with  the Columbia Police Department and Michelle Windmoeller, who is an avid city cyclist. It was a pretty good show and we had one caller and nine people in the ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2009/10/29/biking-week/ In class we presented our progress with somewhat disappointing results. No one called in for our first show, which is no fun, but building an audience takes time. This week we did a show job landscape in Missouri. We had a couple of people in the chatroom engaging each other. ... http://theuniversityofblog.com/2009/10/22/2-shows-down/