Slideshow Critique

www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=bioscapes-stunning-images-capture-tiniest-creatures-under-microscope

I found this slideshow via Stumbleupon. It showcases a four images captured by microscopes.

Having interest in science, I was drawn to the subject matter of this slideshow. The photographers did a great job in capturing visually entrancing images. The two photos that captured my attention was Fruit Flies and Reproduction and color in color. The colors in the pictures are amazing to look at.

The slideshow would be more interesting if it had more pictures. Four pictures is cutting such an interesting subject matter short.




www.mint.com/blog/trends/places-to-hide-your-cash-08252010/
This blog was a lot more interesting than the Scientificamerican.com slideshow. Learning about good places to keep your cash is handy.

The blog itself was well written. The writer kept each paragraph short and to the point. Each idea was well explained, and had a good picture to go with it.

The creator definately took the time to make this slideshow perfect.


johnkenn.blogspot.com

The two things that I like about this gallery, is the artwork, and the fact that this gallery is also a blog.

The artwork itself is great. He uses a lot of detail, and it's amazing how he uses such basic materials (pen and post it notes)

I like how eerie they all are.

Valentines Day Podcast- Group 4

Valentine’s Day is a holiday that can divide our opinions as much as any other major holiday we celebrate. Some people really love the holiday and give more love on February 14 than any other day. Other people might think that this holiday is good but that they should show love every day of the year. And then you have those people who think that this holiday is the worst thing ever and a complete waste of time. Here at Lyndon State College, we see those same divisions as there are wide arrays of opinions even in this small community.

Our group ventured out into the world of Lyndon to see these very opinions. Upon walking the halls and computer labs of campus, as well as some off-campus apartments, we noticed that Valentine’s Day was greeted with hate and love. First, we find one student in the Hornet’s Nest thinks that a night in with a bottle of wine and a movie would be the best way to spend the day and night. She valued the holiday as a way to treat herself and have a nice night in.

We then interviewed faculty and staff who are both married and they saw the holiday as a way to spend time with the ones they love. They were both going to spend time together and have a nice dinner together. They saw the love of one another every day so this was a nice change of pace for them.

After we interviewed a few people that were married, we then interviewed some students who all had different ideas on the holiday and who were mostly spending it the same way. They saw the holiday as an unnecessary day because that if you are with someone that you love, that every day should be like Valentine’s Day. One student even said that Valentine’s Day was a, “crock of shit.” But either way they look at it, they are all single and they didn’t see a reason to celebrate more than they would any other Tuesday. They all believed that if they were in a relationship with someone, they would probably see the benefit of having a Valentine’s Day so they could, “spend more money that I could be saving.” I thought it was pretty funny.

Although Valentine’s Day was originally a day to show love to your significant other, by hand-writing out cards and giving flowers, it has transformed into something much bigger than that. This holiday has grown from something small into the chaotic day that is February 14, Valentine’s Day remains popular and seems to keep growing every year.

Podcast- Outline

Our podcast will end up being about Valentine’s Day on campus and with the Lyndon community as a whole. We are interviewing students, faculty, and staff about their opinions on Valentine’s Day while incorporating a brief history of the holiday and any other relevant information we can find on the topic. We hope to get people who love and hate this holiday, and hopefully we get some interesting responses to our questions because this holiday is all over social media and the news and it seems to create a lot of interesting debates on relationships and love for everyone involved.

Podcast Critique: NPR- Taxing Sugar

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=146481752&m=146453160

The title of the podcast is what really grabbed my attention. I liked how it was straight to the point, and it incorporated two everyday items/issues, sugar and economics.

The audio part of the podcast was well produced. I liked how at the beginning the two dj's were joking around with the name "Stevia". The added humor drew me in deeper.

The dj's explained what the sugar substitute was, where it is found, and how it is made. They also went farther and explained how currently Asia is dominating this industry, but how many Americans are trying to start the business in California.

The only thing that confused me was how the audio never touched on the "taxing" aspect, which is what they named the podcast after. However, that issue was discussed in the text portion.

The only critique I have to give this podcast is that they should have talked about the taxing issue, since that is what caught my attention in the first place.