Spring Break 09

I went to Atlanta for Spring Break this year and had a blast.  It was so weird not being at KOMU for an entire week!! Kind of scary that after only a week it felt weird- can't imagine after Graduation in May.  My best friend came to Atlanta with me and we had a blast.  The weather was nice for the first half of break and we were able to lay by the pool.  The second half was pretty rainy but during these days we had plenty of fun shopping at the cute downtown shops we found.

I got right back into the swing of things with my Monday live shot shift once I returned from my vacation.  The 5 pm went great but the 6 pm wasn't so hot.  I thought my producer told me to go before he actually did so I ended up talking at the same time as Angie.  I was pretty upset with myself afterward but now I realize that you live and learn.  I'm sure that mistake will never happen again!  Kind of embarrassing but I'm over it now!  Leaving for Kentucky this weekend to see my little sister so I'm getting excited about that.  The drive is long but it will be worth it, I never get to visit her at school!  Looking forward to this week's nightside reporting shift tomorrow... Hopefully there is some interesting news for me to cover! 

3/15 Shift

This week went well for me.  My story on Wednesday was great in my opinion and I am really happy with it.  It was about the Nintendo Wii sexual predator.  It was really hard to find the game that he used but after visiting about 10 video game stores I finally found one!  I had to beg the manager to let me borrow it for 30 minutes while I did my standup.  Thankfully he trusted me to bring it back.  

My dot com shift went well tonight also.  Lisa was done with her story pretty early so I was able to get all of the web stuff done for it early on in the night.  I learned how to format live shot scripts from Cate because I start mine tomorrow on the 5 and 6 pm newscasts... I'm pretty nervous about my first one but hopefully it goes smoothly! 

Sunday Funday

Tonight's shift went well except for the fact that I arrived late due to bad weather in Chicago... giving me a long flight delay. Once I got here I worked on a reporter's web story and actually had to edit quite a bit of the writing to make it easier to understand so that entertained me for about an hour! I like that it gave me something more to do other than just copying and pasting. I also wrote the Your Health web story and found it interesting because it discussed a place that offers free healthcare... pretty cool.

I met with my iTouch group tonight when I first arrived because it was the only time that worked for everyone all week. We got a lot accomplished and planned three meeting days for this week! I'm excited to move further along with the project. Our biggest concern is not knowing what to do with all of the information we compile, but I think we are going to find that answer tomorrow morning... Exciting! It was another successful and fun shift for me. :)

Another Shift!

Tonight I found out how much better web images look when you take them from the memory card rather than off Avid!  I couldn't believe the difference and I never realized until Kat, the dot commer of the night showed me.  I also worked with Stephanie to put Honor Flight web extras on Komu.com which was a great but long learning experience.  It took us quite a while to figure out how to get the pdf flyers on the web as links.  I'm glad we worked together on it because I would have been lost if I had to do it on my own.

So far I've learned that most things I learn during my dot com shifts come from the help of other dot commers and come even more so from actually figuring out how to do each thing on my own.  In making mistakes and working to figure out the proper way to post things, I learn much more than watching someone else do it.  I still haven't come up with something to create on Flash so that is definitely my goal for the future!