Video newsreading project from my digital news production class, COMM 3590, Spring 2012.
COMM 3590 Final Project
Apr 24
Is it possible in modern American culture to persuade ethically? In this paper for my Social Influence and Persuasion class, I reflect on how our culture has been trained to disregard honest persuasive techniques
Comm 4570 – Journal 1
Jan 27
As part of this semester’s Communication 4570 – Advanced Video Production class, we’ve been asked to maintain a weekly journal that includes observations about the experience and the class readings. This is the first. Journal 1 The first few days of a new semester are always tumultuous, and this semester’s Advanced Video Production class seems [...]
Audio: WWF Promo
Dec 17
The assignment: create a 30-second commercial for anything. Challenge accepted. (Note: this is a longer cut of the commercial; the 30-second spot, obviously, had about 13 seconds trimmed out.) Bailey-DeJong Commercial-Long
This is the original recording of a five-minute interview I recently conducted with Dr. Chad Edwards, associate professor of communication at Western Michigan University, regarding the communication strategy and effectiveness of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This interview was part of an assignment for my audio engineering class, and will feature in a later presentation [...]
My first project from my Fall 2011 video production class: a 30-second advert for LowGenius.Net
Audio Homework 1
Oct 4
This is just a quick little audio file done as part of an assignment for my audio engineering class. It’s an ‘advertisement’ for the campus media center. Nothing much to talk about, although it’s kind of interesting to me because it’s nice to know what I sound like these days through a quality microphone [...]
Year 2 Day 1
Sep 6
And away we go, digging in to start another year. First class of the semester, Digital Video I, in about 15 minutes as I write this, but I probably won’t finish it before class begins. I’m looking around at several colleagues in a common area/lounge. About a third of them are just sitting and looking [...]
Biomedical Ethics: Abortion
Aug 13
I have to confess at the outset that I find myself at something of a loss on this subject. The arguments in favor of and against legal abortion, and the limits which should be imposed under a pro-choice legal environment, are well-worn in my mind; I fail to understand why we continue to debate it, [...]
I am a pretty open and flexible person in terms of what we are here calling "out-group members." Since I’ve been a terminal "out-group member" most of my life, I like to think maybe I have a more personalized or refined sense of the inherent value of such people; indeed, both my experience and the [...]
