Knowing that my posts to my blog are open for anyone to view and comment on does make a difference depending on my audience and topic.
It does make me more thoughtful on how I write. You want your audience to understand it and get all the main points.
Had this been a more personal blog it would have made a difference. In a personal blog it tends to be more your opinion and some things left out because the people that you know understand what you are writing about, unlike our assignment for the newspapers where you had to keep in mind the audience and topic.
I liked the feedback. It was helpful. It let me see what I may have missed or did not have worded right. It makes you more concious to trying to make sure it's right and lets you know that it is being read.
Electronic media has an immediate feedback process. It's a matter of writing the feedback and hitting send and it's there to view. Traditional is a little lengthy process. You have to write your comments then mail them to writer, which can take up to 3 days depending on your location. If they are going to print your feedback it takes even more time to get it to print.
I've enjoyed this class and the assignments, it was very interesting. I will walk away with more knowledge and paying more attention to what I write on the web knowing that it can be immediately seen and/or commented on. I've also learned there is a big difference in personal blogging and media blogging. I liked that we did our assignments on a blog rather than blackboard. For one blackboard doesn't work right half of the time and second it makes it easier to comment to each other and share ideas and so forth. In some cases forums such as blackboard doesn't suit the purpose such as this class. Thank you Brad!
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Sound Portrait Reflection
Besides the complaint I had before that the narrator talked to fast, hearing Geneva Tisdale tell her story made it easier to understand how she was feeling and helped to see her perspective. It made it more personal than just reading text.
Julius Howell - Civil War General
Julius Howell spoke in front of congress at the age of 101 about the morning that Abraham Lincoln died and how as a boy of 16 and a half he joined the Calvery out of Richmond, Va.
He began his speech with how Abraham Lincoln was made president and there was alot of excitement that there were talks of slavery being ended. He described how in his mind he felt like it was a curse on the country that they had slavery. When war was declared, at the age of 16 and a half he joined the Confederate Army, Calvery Company.
The marched out of Richmond, Va in the southeastern direction. They ran into a few squirmishes and a small battle. The Federals, under General Sheridan, overtook them and he became a Captain. 20,000 of them were captured and sent to the Union Prison Camp.
On the morning of April 15, 1865 he awoke early and went to look outside. He saw that all the flags were at half mast. He called to the others and said "Boys, there must be some big Yankee dead, I wonder who it could be". Not long after the Sargent sounded the bugle and they asked him what the half flag meant. The Sargent replied, "President Lincoln was shot last night".
That ended his speech. You could hear how his tone changed during the speech. While he was talking about Lincoln becoming president and joining the war up till his capture he seemed rather excited to be telling that tale. When he told about Lincoln getting shot you could hear the sadness in his voice.
If I could create my own sound portrait it would probably be about my own father. I've heard his stories about the Vietnam war and his part in it. He was an aircraft mechanic and had to go on missions to salvage parts from aircraft that was down so that the enemy could not use them. He also was on a ship next to the Floristal that had caught fire. He had to board that ship and try to rescue people. It's a horrific story entailing shipmates literally melting into the decks because of the fire and how it heated up the metal decks so hot.
I believe it's possible to create my own sound portrait and I probably would if my father was willing to talk about any of it. It's hard to get him to talk about it, it's all timing.
Julius Howell - Civil War General
Julius Howell spoke in front of congress at the age of 101 about the morning that Abraham Lincoln died and how as a boy of 16 and a half he joined the Calvery out of Richmond, Va.
He began his speech with how Abraham Lincoln was made president and there was alot of excitement that there were talks of slavery being ended. He described how in his mind he felt like it was a curse on the country that they had slavery. When war was declared, at the age of 16 and a half he joined the Confederate Army, Calvery Company.
The marched out of Richmond, Va in the southeastern direction. They ran into a few squirmishes and a small battle. The Federals, under General Sheridan, overtook them and he became a Captain. 20,000 of them were captured and sent to the Union Prison Camp.
On the morning of April 15, 1865 he awoke early and went to look outside. He saw that all the flags were at half mast. He called to the others and said "Boys, there must be some big Yankee dead, I wonder who it could be". Not long after the Sargent sounded the bugle and they asked him what the half flag meant. The Sargent replied, "President Lincoln was shot last night".
That ended his speech. You could hear how his tone changed during the speech. While he was talking about Lincoln becoming president and joining the war up till his capture he seemed rather excited to be telling that tale. When he told about Lincoln getting shot you could hear the sadness in his voice.
If I could create my own sound portrait it would probably be about my own father. I've heard his stories about the Vietnam war and his part in it. He was an aircraft mechanic and had to go on missions to salvage parts from aircraft that was down so that the enemy could not use them. He also was on a ship next to the Floristal that had caught fire. He had to board that ship and try to rescue people. It's a horrific story entailing shipmates literally melting into the decks because of the fire and how it heated up the metal decks so hot.
I believe it's possible to create my own sound portrait and I probably would if my father was willing to talk about any of it. It's hard to get him to talk about it, it's all timing.
Regional Preferences
When we did the assignment for the newspaper front pages it was interesting to see the difference of what was important news to larger cities compared to smaller cities and also the different regions they were in.
The larger cities put more of a focus in their main headlines to national topics. The smaller cities were more focused on local news in thier own areas.
Each region has what they consider thier own importance that is newsworthy.
When we write for the web we have to keep in mind who our audience is and make sure to add details that would not otherwise know. For example, you couldn't just say "Piqua's City Manager" you would have to say "City Manager, Frederick E. Enderle" or the audience would not know exactly who that person is if they are not in the region.
You could apply this on the job by creating newsletters for employees. Most work places are broken up into different departments, which means you would have to be a bit more discriptive with the information, such as names and departments. This way anyone that is not from that department has a better understanding of what is being written about and who it is written about. Each department has thier own idea of what would be considered important and worthy of a headline and would be important to that department. The main headline of the document would appeal to all employees as it would most likely have overall company information, stats, events, changes and things of that nature.
The larger cities put more of a focus in their main headlines to national topics. The smaller cities were more focused on local news in thier own areas.
Each region has what they consider thier own importance that is newsworthy.
When we write for the web we have to keep in mind who our audience is and make sure to add details that would not otherwise know. For example, you couldn't just say "Piqua's City Manager" you would have to say "City Manager, Frederick E. Enderle" or the audience would not know exactly who that person is if they are not in the region.
You could apply this on the job by creating newsletters for employees. Most work places are broken up into different departments, which means you would have to be a bit more discriptive with the information, such as names and departments. This way anyone that is not from that department has a better understanding of what is being written about and who it is written about. Each department has thier own idea of what would be considered important and worthy of a headline and would be important to that department. The main headline of the document would appeal to all employees as it would most likely have overall company information, stats, events, changes and things of that nature.
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