Final Story

91.5 The Impulse is known as WWLR and it is a student run program that is housed on the campus of Lyndon State College at 1001 College Road, Lyndonville Vermont. It has an output of 3,000 watts and reaches all of Caledonia County Vermont and most of Coos County New Hampshire. Students are able to pick a time slot of two hours a show and can create whatever type of show they want. The students have a variety of show types ranging from heavy metal to talk radio and they cover everything in between. Students gain real world experience with the station because 91.5 The Impulse is always updating its music library and giving students the opportunity to grow as radio personalities. The station WWLR does not format its programming other than its two hour show block, and as a result of this the faculty, staff, and student members are permitted free-reign over what music they play or what topics they wish to speak about. The Impulse helps its DJs gain real world experience with its state of the art production room which houses equipment allowing students to manage and produce station promotional material, station identification, and promotional show material. The production room houses high end non-linear audio editing technology allowing students access to professional quality sound effects and industry standard editing for voice recordings and lyrics. While learning about broadcasting and the technical aspect of running a station, DJs who desire to step up a notch can by being involved with management positions. This shows students what its like to run a real radio station in a true business setting. Members gain the radio experience of broadcasting to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, and by streaming shows live on the Internet.

Final Project

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Final

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NEK Video Project

NEK Video Project

Natural Beauty does not go unappreciated, even by the electronically stimulated generation, when you live here in the northeast kingdom.
You may have to look around for them, but there is plenty of beautiful sights right here near Lyndon State College. Places such Burke Mountain, Lake Willoughby, and historic Darling Hill Road may be some of the most beautiful places not only in the area, but in all of Vermont.
LSC students take the time to enjoy these sights while they have the time up here at school.
“I just love the fresh air,” LSC Senior Kyle Gould said. “It’s nice. We don’t have a lot of people and traffic and stuff that creates a lot of poor air quality like you have in cities, so it’s just nice. ”
62% of students here at LSC are from in state. The other 38% may not have been immersed in the Vermont beauty that the northeast kingdom has to offer.
Burke Mountain, located in East Burke, is the northeast kingdom’s very own ski mountain and resort. People from all over the world travel to see the world-renowned trails and resort that LSC students travel to daily during the winter ski and snowboard season.
“I love being able to go to Burke on a fresh powder day,” said LSC Senior Caleb Noble, who hails from Massachusetts. “There’s nobody at the mountain but you. It’s quiet, it’s beautiful, and there’s nobody around and you just kind of be one with yourself. It’s just a beautiful area.”
Along with Burke Mountain, the world famous Kingdom Trails see millions of visitors every year. The trails cover many miles that LSC students get to ride along during the few warm weeks of the fall semester, and the few warm weeks of the spring semester.
“I love the over 100 miles of mountain biking trails,” said Noble.
With so many places to see, many students prefer to be outside more than they are inside. They find that it is more relaxing, soothing than inside their dorm room.
“The air’s cleaner, its just a lot nicer,” said Senior LSC student Joe Biega.
“There are a lot of hills for physical exercise. For someone like me who used to like to do hills in cross-country…they’re always a good thing to keep your strength up.”
Whether you have just one more semester or many semesters left here at LSC, make sure you get out and enjoy all of the beautiful sights and sounds of the northeast kingdom.

VIDEOOOOOOO

For our video project, were going to be creating a video package of the northeast kingdom. Our sound sources are basically going to be wildlife and it will be narrated to talk about specific areas.

Question

How tough has it been to not get too emotionally attached to some of your more emotional stories? Is it sometimes to be, or not?

Audio slideshow

The Lyndon state flag football league is one of the hidden treasures for students searching out a Sunday activity. With a small sign up sheet posted near sue Henry's office, word of mouth has continued to fuel and spark interest of many students that are a part of the Lyndon State College community.
The league was based off of the ever-popular AMS flag football tournament. The league was integrated nicely with a full schedule of games for Sunday mornings from 8 to noon. Intramurals Director Sue Henry was able to assign work-study students to referee the games as well.
The game is played with 8 players on the field for each team. The league became more realistic this year by changing the first down rules to be more similar to football; it was changed from a two-completion rule to gaining a certain number of yards from the line of scrimmage. Both of which had to be done within the four downs allotted.
The game is played in two halves of twenty minutes each. There are no fake plays on the extra point either. If the team says they are kicking a field goal they are obligated to kick and cannot throw or run the ball in. With the season quickly concluding, and eminent weather threatening to cover the field in snow, each team knows it is playoff time.
Playoffs are played in a two game per week format for two Sundays in a single elimination style. The final game is the championship game. With the intramural field designated a construction zone, the athletic director allowed the teams access to the soccer field.
Something appreciated by all players, "it’s awesome to be able to play since the school doesn't have a football team and now that we're on the varsity field it brings games to a whole new level." Ed Horan, a junior whose is in his third of playing, explained.
Sue Henry also offers many other intramural options.  There are other league options such as basketball, floor hockey, and volleyball.
Along with their league intramurals, there is also a weekly intramural sport offered during the weekends.  It is held on Saturdays and ranges from dodge ball to table tennis.  Residence halls on campus compete against each other to win the intramural championship.
Intramural activities are meant to be non-competitive and to promote exercise on campus.  You can contact Sue Henry at Susan.Henry@lyndonstate.edu for more information on all intramural sports around campus.

iReport critique (The good, and the un-important)

Soccer Kicks- No sound, nothing engaging about it, a kid walks at a painstakingly slow pace towards a soccer ball. This is composed as an extreme long shot, and honestly it isn't even entertainging enough to be on youtube. Not news.

Covered Bridge- iReport user who shall remain anonymous is just the absolute queen of un-newsworthy stories. First her honeymoon, now a picture of a covered bridge. Just unecessary, I really don't believe I need to say much more, Learn what belongs on a CNN website, and what belongs on a personal blog. Not news.

Hurricane Proofing The Beach- A short piece with decent content, though due its lack of technical camera use it would never be vetted by CNN. If he was really ambitious he could talk to the people who run the beach, and this could very well be news if it was done extensively and more technically.

Soundslide Critiques

Fresno State's Collegian put out an audio soundslide of the college's first Native American Pow Wow. The pictures were very gripping and colorful, as there were absolutely no filler shots. The audio starts out with traditional native american music playing and then fades to an interview with a student participating. It is pulled together really well and the images are absolutely stunning and very vivid. This soundslide was very well done.

I unfortunately watched a soundslide on a bowling team. The shots were all the same, and I understand you can only get so many bowling shots, but they could've mixed it up a little bit and tried to get creative. It was not at all engaging unlike the Native American soundslide. There was no imagination or effort with the photos at all, and that really hurt this very bland soundslide.

PHOTO GALLERY:

http://www.vermontfallfoliage.com/guestphoto.shtml

The Photo Gallery was a compilation of very beautiful photographs of Vermont's fall foliage. There is not a picture here that is not captivating, it is shot by guests and submitted, but they are all breathtaking. This is a great photo gallery that is most importantly engaging and extremely gripping and captivating. I really liked this photo gallery.

Slideshow Project

For our project were going to do an audio slideshow of a flag football game. For our sound source were going to interview one of the players and have him talk about the game and his thoughts. Our intended audience would probably be anyone thats into sports. Its in interesting story because flag football is not a division three sport. The guys are just doing it because they love the game.

Practice Soundslide

Podcast Reviews

Despite Rough Off-Season, Men’s Basketball Looks Ahead

            If you walk down the athletic hallway in between the Rita Bole gym and the theatre lobby, you will see a team picture for every varsity sports team here at Lyndon State College.  Last season’s Men’s basketball team picture has 17 student athletes in uniform, however, only two of those student athletes will be included in this season’s team picture.

            Senior guard Ben Sackett and Junior Forward Jason Gray are the only two returning players from last year’s squad which made a deep run in the NAC playoffs. Sackett led the NAC in 3-point percentage last season shooting an impressive 44 percent from beyond the arc. Gray was a second team All-NAC selection last season and was the third leading shot blocker in the NAC, and was ranked 6^th in the conference in rebounds per game. 

Last years roster included nine first-year players, none of them will be suiting up to play this year. The youth on the team combined with strong veteran leadership and made a run all the way to the NAC finals. Gritty post play from Antonio Mena, O’Bee Byrd and Jason Gray teamed up to lead the NAC in team rebounding while NAC rookie of the year Phil Warrick led the Hornets with 18.7 points per game (3^rd in the NAC).

The team’s schedule this year consists of Division 1 opponent Yale as well as attending an invitational tournament over Thanksgiving Break in Utah. The team will be filled with new faces this year, and expectations for this team are on the rise.

2 Minutes with Mike Howard

Podcast Reviews

The first Podcast I subscribed to was Hidden Universe by NASA. I subscribed to it because I've always been incredibly curious about what lies beyond planet earth. Though I did not sync this up to my Ipod, I quickly learned many things and got to see many very well detailed images. The visuals make it entertaining and though it is scientific, it is certainly not boring. This was a really good find, and I definitely suggest looking it up to see some nice Deep Space images.

I listened to Sports Illustrated NBA Podcasts, Episode 30: NBA Draft Preview, this one was all audio and I subscribed to it because I am an avid fan of basketball scouting. The audio ones can get a bit monotone at times and though it was present here, I enjoyed how in-depth they went at analyzing prospects and bringing in Chris Ekstrand. I did not put this on my ipod, though I did like their analysis and their expert opinions which had a high success rate.

"We go places without cell phone signal, and we solve our problems, in single files we go down dusty trails where it smells like pine trees and sage, we grow closer and help eachother steer our lives."

I stumbled upon The Dirtbag Diaries by Fitz Cahill and was attracted by the cover of a man dusted with snow walking in the cold. In The Way of the Underdog he tells a story of a man named Jason, it appears that I shouldn't care about some random guy, he's a normal kid, however this isn't about the story, but the way its told. The way you can sense how real and in tune Jason and his friends are. The short musical interludes and incredibly vivid memories make this podcast special. The Way of The Underdog also has an inspiring appeal to it, the emotions they express are very easy to relate to. I will definitely be falling asleep to this one on my Ipod sooner than later.

CBS Atlanta vs. Fox 44

Both websites are very well put together, and both can clearly get the job done. However, I personally was more impressed with CBS Atlanta, though we can partially attribute this to their bigger market. It is most noticeable in the sports column, in which Atlanta has 7 different categories of sports coverage. While Fox 44 keeps up with 7 tabs of its own, they are on a lower scale of prominence. I look at it this way, CBS Atlanta is the best choice for those looking for national news, unless if you live in Vermont or New Hampshire in which case Fox 44 would be the better choice due to its favorable proximity.

As far as multimedia goes, CBS Atlanta holds a serious edge simply due to the magnitude of videos and photos. When you open the homepage, the first thing you see is a cluster of videos, not to mention the incredible amount of categorized slideshows, as opposed to Fox 44's one lonely slideshow. CBS Atlanta must have had at least 30 slideshows! The bigger market and I'd imagine a slightly larger web staff gives CBS Atlanta the edge.

NSN Sports

I was impressed by NSN sports. They are very organized as they have many different ways to categorize their sports information (by college, by high school, or by sport). The addition of Dartmouth and UVM to the lineup of colleges gives the website more star power and appeal, as both schools have developed a few professional prospects (Marques Blakely, UVM, Men's Basketball) and Chris O'Dowd, Dartmouth, Baseball. The DVD store is a unique addition though I'm not sure many people will buy a high school football game for 23 dollars though. This website seems to have a complete lock on what appears to be almost every high school in VT. There are 4 sections of Vermont high schools NEK, Central, Northwest and Southern Vermont. This website is well on its way to becoming a bigger market within the next 10 years.

Pimp My Blog

I pimped my blog out with utmost amounts of style and grace. I tried to make the background image the cover to my favorite album of this year, The R.E.D Album by The Game, however it did not work. I fortunately settled on a background of windmills, which I see off in the distance every morning in the back of Rita Bole. I put in a fish tank at the bottom which was properly named the FFA (Fish Fighting Association) training gym. I also had to put in asteroids, because it is an amazingly entertaining game. More blog posts will follow, I'll make sure each one is quite riveting.

CBS Atlanta

CBSAtlanta.com is the online news outlet for CBS News in Atlanta, GA. The website is very well put together and has every aspect covered from headline news, to multi-media, and even social-media. There is even an interesting rewards section. It is very easy to navigate through the website and is very user friendly.  CBS Atlanta's web division is definitely doing a very good job.

Indie Hip-Hop

Whats good world, Indiehiphop.net is a blog that showcases the music of independent Rap artists. It's set up in typical blog format, and is a nice forum for independent rap artists to get their music heard.