The on campus tech store WiredOut is in the process of rebranding and is expected to move locations during winter 2014.
Who: WiredOut
What: Meeting the ever growing demand of technology on campus
When: Winter 2014
Where: New location beside Huntington Bank (Ives Drive)
Why: More space, new technology, better service, meeting the growing demand of technology increase
How: Moving into new location with more space
Contacts: Dan Flesh(.14) Sales Floor Supervisor, John Fischer(.670) Customer
Number correct 4/5 plus 1 bonus
1) New York
2) Syria
3) (Sullivan Hall)
4) Reduction of teaching benefits
5) Ammunition
6) Hannah Graham
If I learned one lesson from our first assignment in #osucomm2221, it would be the importance of being engaged.
I do not mean the kind of engaged that is symbolized by a big sparkly ring on a girls left hand, either.
Our first assignment was all about news. It was my job to be aware of what was going on around me and draw the connection to how I could turn it into a news article. This task required some serious thought and effort. I had to be sure I was engaged in Columbus news, campus events, and student life. To accomplish this I had to be a student of the game and keep up on my news reading.
The story idea I came up with was, how is the ban of tobacco products in CVS effecting students? I thought I could come up with a cool angle for the article especially because of the recent movement to ban the use of tobacco products around campus.
I took to the streets to look for sources and conduct interviews. However this led me to run into a few obstacles. The manager and the pharmacist at CVS were unable to answer some of my questions because of their store policy. They gave my the number of a service line I could call but unfortunately their answers were too vague for my story.
This left me with two options. The first option was to choose a different angle. This story was still possible to create but it would take a bit of brainstorming and some extra work. The second option was to engage myself in other things that were taking place on campus and write a story about those. I chose the latter of the two.
One of my favorite aspects of #osucomm2221 so far is the opportunity to leave the classroom and talk to students on campus. I am not one who fears striking up a conversation with a stranger. In fact, I believe the best conversations and relationships come from those spontaneous conversations.
I excused myself from our classroom during one of our workdays to go and search for news. I stopped to talk to Local Matters Student Ambassadors, a student organization advocating for a new event on the Oval. They told me about their long term goal of having 20 percent of all Ohio State dining services food locally and sustainably grown.
I saw this as an acceptable story idea because they were hosting a campus wide block party to kick off the idea of this movement. It was a topic that was relatable and interesting to students. It is also a long term goal-which will provide for future follow up news articles. Plus they were a fun group of students to talk with and interview.
After the interview I sat down and wrote my article. The article went through a few rounds of edits and peer evaluations but became finally ready to submit.
I realize that this assignment would have been ten times more difficult if I wasn’t able to engage myself in what was going on around campus. We are learning some really important skills in #osucomm2221. Some of which include how to pay attention to what is going on around us, how to relate topics to others, experiencing striking up conversations with others, and the ability to turn a conversation into a piece of writing that has a purpose to engage its audience.
The world of news reporting is a big one and it is easy to feel overwhelmed. I get that feeling a lot. But through some of our exercises in this class I have learned that the more connected, focused, and engaged I am, the more confident in my abilities I will be.
1) Alex Salmond
2) Sierra Leone
3) Reynoldsburg School District
4) JetBlue Airlines
5) France
1) The Navy.
2) John Kerry.
3) (South Africa)
4) Skull Session.
5) John Kasich and Ed Fitzgerald.
1) The journalist was beheaded in Syria.
2) President Obama was supportive of the Baltic Nations.
3) Each of the citizens were beaten to death and were in between the ages of 50 and 70.
4) $1 million.
Why? The inverted pyramid, that’s why!
If you are having trouble picturing what the inverted pyramid looks like, imagine a funnel. The purpose of a funnel is to channel a substance from a larger area to a smaller area. Much like the funnel, in the world of journalism the purpose of an inverted pyramid is to take a large amount of information and channel it into something more specific and convenient for the reader to interpret.
The first step to writing a story that utilizes the inverted pyramid is to determine the “who, what, when, where, why, and how.” Today my class practiced doing just that. I have brainstormed some basic inverted pyramid qualities below.
Who: Mary Siekman
What: Enrolled in COMM2221. First class taken in the school of journalism.
When: Sophomore at OSU, fall semester.
Where: The Ohio State University Columbus Campus
Why: Freelance writer looking to improve quality of projects. To earn a degree in Agricultural Communication.
How: Established Agricultural Communication major freshman year of college.
“To earn a degree in Agricultural Communication, Mary Siekman enrolled in COMM2221 at The Ohio State University in Autumn 2014.”
Much love,
Mary
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