Done With the Mix of Week Number Six

Shift Work
This week marked another in the Smart Decision category. I spent some time doing the basics, updating the spashcaster, changing the blogs to full html and promoting the stories to the front page. All of the other news sites and blogs appeared to update as a new story, but not KOMU.com’s stories.

I also spent some time researching who was going to be in what race. I then handed it off to Mark. As you probably know, politics is really his thing. I think the categories will really add to the site, as navigation will become much easier.

I also spent more time applying another set of eyes to KOMU.com. I kind of disagreed with one of the lead images, so I went to fix it. In order to do that, Jim Matheny helped me out a ton. He showed me many new things that can be done with Photoshop that I did not know how to do. Jim also made me think of something else I usually overlook. That is making sure the lead image and the abstract fit the story. Many times we just take the freeze frame the reporters submit, and use the first line as an abstract. We need to make sure neither misleads.

Project
As I said my post last weekend, our group is ready to roll we just need the OK.

ePortfolio
In the past week, I have become almost excited about the talk of ePortfolios. The flash training only added to it. By looking at others over the past week, I am starting to see the great possibilities an ePortfolio can offer. Like I have said, I really like what Jason Lamb’s looked like and would love to have my ePortfolio provide the same information that his did.

I would also like to add that I think the flash training was great. I know the basics, but now can think in terms of what flash can do. I might even try to take advantage of some of the classes you can take for free on campus.