Blog 8

During Obamas campaigning he made many promises to the people about change, saving the american people from the terrorists, making new jobs. He made it sound like everything was just going to work. Under his administration some of the things that have happened are as follows: percentage of unemployment is at large, we are in the worst recession since the great depression, apologizing to Al Khadda terrorists for something that we didn't do and is entirely their fault. On talk radio, and the Hannity and Colmes show, they are calling Obama one of the worst presidents that we have ever had. A huge reason for his election was not even for what he believed in, it was for his african decent.

Under the Roosevelt administration, America was pulled out of the Great Depression and the promises made by FDR were actually kept. He was a man of the people and cared more about them and their opinion than anything else. Because of that he was a widely popular president among congressmen and the people .

As you can see, Roosevelt was clearly a much better president than Obama.

Blog 7

My company would have thrived. Maybe even done better. My company was NBC and was established before the great depression and it made it through. My company thrived because the people during the depression wanted to know what was going on and my company sold papers to them so they would know about how the market is doing and how everything government wise was going.

Quotes

1. Its not really a quote but when Tom picked up the turtle and wrapped him up in his coat showed that he was caring. (chapter 4)

2. "Id do what i done again....i killed a guy in a fight....i killed him with a shovel....knocked his head plumb to squash" I think this quote shows that Tom isn't afraid to throw down when he needs to an it also shows that he wont let anybody push him around. ch 4

3. "i'm hungry for these here creatures" its not necessarily an important quote but what is happening at the time is that Tom caught a rabbit and cleaned it up. That shows he's resourceful and street smart. ch 6

4. "i got along ok, minded my own business" In jail people want to hurt you and he minded his own business which shows that he knows when to pick a fight and when not to because earlier in the book he got in jail for a fight and now hes avoiding it. ch 7

photo essay

http://students.hthma.hightechhigh.org/~maalexander


scroll down to internship, scroll down again and click on page 4

Student Work I Like

http://students.hthma.hightechhigh.org/~mmcgaughy/

This is Madison McGaughy's DP. This is one of my favorites for a couple reasons. Madison does her absolute best at everything she does and her projects and work reflect that greatly. Her DP is one of those long projects. It's very well laid out and easy to read and to navigate through.

http://herewego-dmccrae.blogspot.com/

This is D'vaughn McCrae's blog. Its very simple and thorough but not overly long, she has that perfect balance. I like it for that reason, all blogs are simple and easy to read but hers is thorough without making you read a book for each blog. Some other students either don't write enough, its bad quality writing, or in some cases they write way too much that no one will ever want to read.

http://skainsman.blogspot.com/

This is Ben Wasserman's blog. His blog is sincere and tell you exactly the way it is. He doesn't censor what people say to keep them from sounding bad. I greatly respect that in a project or anything that anyone does.

Expectations of Ampersand

Post your personal goals, hopes and ambitions for your class' production & publication of this book.

For this year's issue of Ampersand, I had a few expectations of it and a few expectations of what is going to go into the production of the book.

First and foremost i expect it to be a highly anticipated project from not only students but also staff and other people interested in purchasing one. I expect that creating the book is going to be rather confusing because there is no set idea for criteria that is going into the book. For example: we are aloud to put it pretty much any form of writing into the book. Because of that i imagine that its going to be quite hard to make flow well with all the different topics and all the different forms of writing.

In the production of the book, since its composed of mainly all writing. I know that the actual writing of everyones piece of writing thats going into the book isn't going to be the long or hard part of the project. The hard part is going to be revision and insuring that the quality of each piece of writing is high enough for outside eyes to see.

I hope this book becomes ever more of a hit than it was last year. Its a tough goal to beat but i think that this year with a lot of hard work and dedication can pull it off. Me personally, I'm not really sure what to expect. My writing isn't exactly top of the line writing. I'm not good at making all of my ideas flow into a good story and make sense. For that single reason, I fear for the quality of my section of Ampersand.

Final Interview

This is Sherrylou Blower. As you can see, she doesn't look very excited for her interview.

This is Craig Murray. He often had a lot to say and often what he said was very useful. During the interview he was quite calm.

NBC 7/39 the news on what goes on behind the news

My mentors Craig Murray and Sherrylou Blower are at work on their daily tasks. Craig is currently filling out billing information for a new shipment of laptops that came in the day before. Sherrylou is busy writing a rundown (description on paper of how the news will go) of the days newscast.

Craig is a tall thin man, often wearing a black pollo shirt, a leather jacket, and jeans. His hair was always well kept. On a normal day he works on updating current machines, fixing broken ones, or installing NBC software on brand new computers. He had been at the company for 14 years as a technology manager. Ever since he was with NBC Craig worked on installation of all NBC programming. Before he was there he worked for a manufacturing company. When I walk into his office, the smell of freshly printed paper fills the room. The sound of the different computers in his office drowns out all other sounds. There’s a smile on his face when I ask him “is it ok if I interview you?”.

Sherrylou Blower is a short middle-aged woman, and on an average day she wears a sweater, jeans, and a baseball cap. On an average workday she is found sitting at her desk working on the rundown for the days newscast. She never went to college. She originally started at a local Wyoming news station then later worked her way up the ranks to become a director at NBC. She now makes sure that everything runs the way it should during a live newscast. Her workstation is filled with papers of past rundowns. The room is very open with very little sound to disrupt the constant clicking and clacking of her typing up the days’ rundown. She wasn’t eager to be interviewed because she is never recorded, but thats ok.

Can you tell me your name, job title, and years you’ve been working at NBC?

Craig- My name is Craig Murray, I’m a technology manager at NBC and I’ve worked here for 14 years

Sherrylou- My name is Sherrylou Blower, I’ve been at NBC for 14 years as a director

What do you actually do?

Craig- My responsibility is to make sure that users of computers have everything they need for day to day operations which includes upgrades of the computers. I also keep the servers, and network running.

Sherrylou- I’m a director at NBC, I coordinate with producers, shots, pre pro, whatever graphics we might need for newscast, during the actual broadcast I’m on headsets with 7 other crew members telling them each shot that we take, each tape that we take. I’m actually telling someone to put all the graphics you see on the air. I’m responsible for everything that happens on camera

How did the interns help you

Craig- they upgraded the computers downstairs with better software and hardware after upgrades all the computers were up and running. They had no problems with start up. All the workers who received them were very happy with them.

Is there anything you would do differently knowing what you know now?

Craig- Knowing what I know now, I would have gotten a technology degree, my degree isn’t in technology, another thing is I would have geared up more for software skills.

Sherrylou- I probably would have taken more advantage of technology today. It seems like technology and TV has passed me up, and its hard to catch up.

What skills are necessary for your position?

Craig – My background is in manufacturing not IT. I got started because the manufacturing company I worked for needed an IT guy and they didn’t want to hire one so I got the skills in IT by just on the job training. To keep my current job one would need to have PC upgrade and buildup skills, the ability to analyze network operations as far as how computers attach together, the ability to integrate software into PCs and into the network, and able to understand the hardware aspects of all of that.

Sherrylou - I learned everything on the job, I didn’t take any extra courses, I didn’t go to college. I started at a television company in Wyoming as the gardener, after doing that for 2 years the production manager asked me if I wanted to do master control. I had no idea what that was but it sounded like fun and that’s how my career got started.

Were you happy with your interns? Would you do this again with another set of high school interns?

Craig - Ya I would, I sit at the board NBAS on Crawford high school. Once a month I meet with their staff to outline what their students should be doing and we have interns from them all the time. I think its a valuable process to have people from high school and college come in to see how things actually work in todays workplace.

Sherrylou – It’s also been a lot of work trying to do my job and making sure you guys have something to do its been difficult, I’m not sure I would do it again just for that reason because it does take a lot of time out of your day and I wasn’t really anticipating that.

rough draft interview

NBC 7/39 the news on what goes on behind the news

On the first day of walking into internship there were many people rushing up an down the 6 elevators of the NBC building. It smelled like a constant vacuum was being run in the main lobby. Up on the third floor, Mr. Craig Murray an Ms. Sherrylou Blower were both diligently working on their tasks at hand. Both very busy and both with their starbucks close by.

Craig had been at the company for 14 years as a technology manager. He had worked on installation of all NBC programming since he had been with the company. Before he was there he was working for a manufacturing company.

Sherrylou Blower never went to college. She started in wyoming as a gardener for a news station then worked her way up the ranks to a director. She now makes sure that everything runs the way it should during a live newscast.

Name, job title, years working?

Craig- My name is Craig Murray, My job title is tech manager, I’ve worked her for 14 years

Sherrylou- My name is Sherrylou Blower, I’ve been at NBC for 14 years and I’m a director

What do you actually do?

Craig- My responsibility is to make sure that all the clients which are all the users of machines here have everything they need for day to day operations. Sales, news, keep the servers running, keep the network running, do upgrades and installs of software and various things, anything having to do with keeping clients and customer service happy.

Sherrylou- I’m a director at NBC, I coordinate with producers, shots, pre pro, whatever graphics we might need for newscast, during the actual broadcast I’m on headsets with 7 other crew members telling them each shot that we take, each tape that we take. All the graphics that you see on the air, im actually telling someone to put that on the air. I’m responsible for everything that happens on camera

How did the interns help you

Craig- you guys did a couple of good installs, all the machines that we installed and upgraded downstairs in the newsroom were up and running. They had no problems with start up and I did a check up on the clients down there that had the machines and they are very happy with them and they were very happy with the process with which we got them done. I’d say it was a success.

Is there anything you would do differently knowing what you know now?

Craig- ya. Knowing what I know now, as far as education goes, I would have gotten a technology degree, my degree is not in technology, another thing is I would have geared up more for software skills.

Sherrylou- I probably would have taken more advantage of technology today. Learning more, it seems like technology has passed me up, and I’m trying to catch up with everything that’s new. TV keeps changing everyday, technology keeps changing everyday and I’m trying to keep up, it’s hard.

What skills are necessary for your position?

Craig – My background is in manufacturing, it isn’t in IT. I got started because the manufacturing company I worked for needed an IT guy and they didn’t want to hire one so I got the skills in IT by just on the job training. What’s required to keep my job is you have to have PC upgrade and buildup skills. You have to have the ability to analyze network operations as far as computers how attach together, you have to have the ability to integrate software into PCs and into the network and be able to understand the hardware aspects of all of that.

Sherrylou - In my case I learned everything on the job, I didn’t take any extra courses, I didn’t go to college. I started at a television company in Wyoming as the gardener, after doing that for 2 years the production manager asked me if I wanted to do master control. I had no idea what that was but it sounded like fun and thats how my career got started.

Were you happy with your interns? Would you do this again with another set of high school interns?

Craig - Ya I would, I sit at the board NBAS on Crawford high school NBAS is the media visual arts school (Crawford is broken up into four different high schools) Once a month I meet with their staff to outline what their students should be doing and we have interns from them all the time. I think its a valuable process to have people from high school and college come in to see how things actually work in todays workplace.

Sherrylou - It’s been interesting having you guys around, its also been a lot of work. Trying to do my job and making sure you guys have something to do its been kinda difficult, I’m not sure I would do it again just for that reason because it does take a lot of time out of your day and I wasn’t really anticipating that.

Interview guidelines

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939600/steve_jobs_the_rolling_stone_interview

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/01/health/a-conversation-with-joseph-graves-beyond-black-and-white-in-biology-and-medicine.html?pagewanted=1


A good interview consists of lots of questions. Good interviews with many questions make for quantity and because theres so many questions and answers to choose from, the interviewer can publish good information from what the person said. Another thing that makes an interview good is that the questions are all relevant and are all on the same topic.