Weird little event - Insectival!

Description:
Join us for the 13th annual Insect-ival!. This year’s theme is ‘6 Legged Immigrants’! Not all immigrants to the U.S. are people. Many are plants and animals. Quite a few are six-legged insects. Come to the Insectival to meet some of these new and old six-legged Americans. Through games and activities discover where they came from and how they got here. Learn who is helpful and find out who is harmful and what you can do about them. At 11am we will host our 2nd butterfly release on the lawn of the International Garden. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to view dozens of native butterflies flap their wings above your head! The Insect-ival is sponsored by the Garden, the Lund Club of the UGA Department of Entomology, and the Georgia Museum of Natural History. Pre-registration is not required. Pricing-- $3 per person, $10 per family, children under 2 are free.

For more information, contact Marianne Robinette, Dept. of Entomology, UGA (Entomolo@uga.edu) 706-542-1238.

Paul Watson on Fresh Air

In case you missed it today, Fresh Air's Terri Goss interviewed Canadian photojournalist Paul Watson, whose photo of the dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Somolia won the '94 Pulitzer for Spot News.

He's also covered Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and according to Watson, he's now suffering from chronic PTS. Recently he was named head of the L.A. Times bureau in Indonesia.

In the interview he speaks pretty frankly about the photo and how it's impacted his life and the lives of his family, and it's impact on politics.

Anyway, interview is worth a listen.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13970206

Out of curiosity ...

For the spring semester, there will be two (TWO!!) visual communication courses offered. Documentary Photography (JOUR5370) will be on the books, as always, as well as a new capstone-esque course - JOUR5990, Multimedia Journalism.

Since I'm limited in how many classes I can teach, we'll be hiring an adjunct to teach the 5370 course so I can do the new, experimental course. Because Doc will be done by an adjunct, the scheduling will be different - probably, probably, Tuesday OR Thursday evenings from 5-8. We're talking with a couple of staffers from the AJC about it so the adjunct will have a lot of experience at high level story telling.

Would anyone see a problem with doing an evening class? I know there would be R&B conflicts, but those should be easily worked out as not everyone would be in the class. (I hope some would choose the new course ...)

Let me know ASAP.

Thanks.

-mej

business cards

Just wanted to confirm what information we're putting on here

Name
Photojournalist
Real Home addres (not local)
Phone number
email
Univeristy of Georgia?
website? Mark, would you recommend me using georgiadogs.com?
Anything under company name?

I dont know why I'm making this so complicated... it semi-bothers me that I'm asking people about what to put for MY information

New Media course

A lot of this may be redundant with things we'll be doing, but some of it will be helpful. If you've got time and space, do it.

NMIX4490 Digital Media Skills (1 hour) – MW, 10:10A – 11:00A
In this class, students will learn a host of digital media skills:
web-building, portfolio creation, digital imaging, digital audio,
powerpoint, and even a little podcasting. Now this class is not a
substitute for the in-depth New Media Production (NMIX4110). This class
will provide rudimentary basics that every student should have. Let’s
put it this way – if this were a language class, you could find a
bathroom, take a bus, and locate your luggage. New Media Production
NMIX4110 makes you a native speaker. In Digital Media Skills, the
instructor will present a topic on Monday and the students will work
with the instructor on tasks Wednesday. We need some bright students to
see how much we can accomplish in a 1-hour course!

Contact Dr. Scott Schamp at sshamp@uga.edu .

Camera settings

Remember what I said in class about always resetting my camera to the same place? So I'd know where I was if something happened? Now there's a comic for it ...

First Post

Welcome back!

This blog will be a little different from the UGA Photojournalism blog in that I expect you guys to post information here. Links to online photo stories, multimedia packages and industry items of note can go in here. I may assign you a couple of regions to look in so we don't end up with too many repeats.

Each of you will be able to post and comment and, while this will be publicly viewable, no one from outside will be able to post info. They will be able to add comments.

You can post photos, too, that may not fit into your assignments if you like.

Off to finish the syllabus ...