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A Case for Innovation
Student newsrooms are stuck in the past. I’m going on my third year in a college media environment, and I understand how hard it is to break away from tradition. We get locked in a routine with advisers who only teach one system and a cycle of monotonous traditionalism is born and forever maintained.
It doesn’t have to be that way though, which is why CoPress decided to make a series of educational videos with inspirational ideas for innovation. Called “A Case for Innovation,” our series focuses on topics from creating a web centric newsroom to generating revenue online. I’ve embedded the videos below and encourage you to take them back to your newsrooms as a starting point for discussion.
I’ve probably over-emphasized the fact that these videos are a starting point only. We don’t have all the answers to innovation. But we can get you thinking, and from there, we want to see what you’re capable of. Hopefully, you come back with even better ideas that you can in return share with the rest of the community.
San Luis live-action role playing video
Drive past Santa Rosa Park in San Luis Obispo on any Saturday afternoon and you’ll hear dozens of cars honking at an unconventional sight.
The spectacle: A group of people engaged in combat, using Styrofoam shields and wearing deep forest-green cloaks.
They’re not rehearsing for a play or a fencing team but rather are the San Luis Obispo chapter of Amtgard – Barony of the Seven Sleeping Dragons.
“We play adult tag, that’s it,” said Nate Watkins, an architecture senior who has been playing Amtgard for three years. Continue reading →
Promo video for Cal Poly Housing
This video was created for my job as a graphic designer at University Housing at Cal Poly. The video was shown to incoming freshmen during their summer orientation as an introduction to life on campus.
Student views on modernizing j-education
Students at the 2009 Associated Collegiate Press Conference in San Diego, Calif. discuss ideas on modernizing journalism education in the 21st century. This video was produced as part of my internship at the Center for Innovation in College Media.
Cal Poly brings student portfolios into the 21st century
A rising trend among universities nationwide is a push for online portfolios, also known as e-folios or e-portfolios – and Cal Poly may begin exploring the concept on a university-wide scale.
The university sent a team to a statewide CSU meeting Wednesday at the San Francisco State University Downtown Center to specifically discuss how students and faculty can use e-portfolios. Continue reading →
Reaction to Prop 8 decision in SLO
Local gay marriage advocates gathered at Mitchell Park on May 26, 2009 to oppose the California Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold Proposition 8, the proposition passed last November that banned same-sex marriage.
About 250 community members congregated for an event organized by the San Luis Obispo chapter of Marriage Equality USA. The 6-1 ruling determined that the 18,000 same-sex marriages that took place before the vote remain valid.
After the passage of Porposition 8, several same-sex couples took the vote results to the courts, stating that the ballot measure was unconstitutional under state law.
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