Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Assignment Nine: Five Story Ideas

East Bay Express | Calendar | Berkeley Earth Day
A celebration of alrenative energy and alternative lifestyles in the heart of Berkeley.

I would like to create a visual story about earth day in Berkeley CA, through video, audio and photography.

There are articles about Earth Day and its history on wikipedia as well as the Earth Day Network.


San José State Events
Award winning poet and author holds conversation as answers questions at King library.

Dr. Sandra Gilbert will be speaking at the Martin Luther King Library on April 15th. I will attend the event and interview Gilbert as well as other attendees.

There is allot of information about Gilbert on wikipedia as well as her personal website. There are also books of hers on Google Book Search.

SAN JOSE the fun never stops
Josh Buswell-Charkow, ForestEthics organizer, will speak about the threats to California's forestes presented by archaic logging methods.

The event will take place on April 14th at the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library.

There are resource online about forests and forest health at the Callifornia Forestry Ascociation's website.


SAN JOSE the fun never stops
Alva Noë, an Associate Professor of Philosphy at UC Berkeley and author, speaks about the nature of conciousness and why we are not our brains.

Noë will be speaking at Kepler Bookstore in Menlo Park on April 16. The author of "Out of Our Heads" will be speaking about

There are many articles and book reviews on news sites like salon.com and in the San Francisco Chronicle as wellas Noë's personal website that I can use as resources.

Cal Day 2009, UC Berkeley
I havent picked a single event or focus yet, but I would like to do a story on some aspect of Cal DAy 2009.

8 comments:

  1. Story 1 and Story 2


    Story 1 is current and informational. Today's society regards green as hip. Big college names are good attention-getters as well.

    Story 2 can turn out well if this author has some well-known awards under her belt. The MLK is also a locale that can draw attention to your article. Plus, this one sounds like you can grab many interviews to make your story well-rounded.

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  2. Your stories aren't numbered but here we go...

    1st Choice: Story #3? The one about the forests.

    Threats to California forests?!?! Then everyone should know about this.
    Very important.

    2nd Choice: Story #4? The one about Philosophy.

    This one seems very interesting, in fact, I want to attend the event.

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  3. 1st Choice =#1

    I love visuals! You can always count on Berkeley to give you a great story, this event sounds great.

    2nd Choice = #3

    This is something I do not know to much about, but feel that it must stop, (archaic logging). I would love to learn more about this topic.

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  4. First choice #1. Second choice #5.

    Your video idea is original and I would love to see it. I would like to know about what goes on during Cal Day.

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  5. Vote #1: Berkeley Earth Day

    A visual story seems like a great idea. You can always find interesting "studies" in Berkeley.

    Vote #2: Sandra Gilbert

    I think the poetry event sounds like fun. Interviewing people in the audience sounds like a great idea.

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  6. Vote 1 Sandra Gilbert Vote 2:Alva Noe

    They are two names that not many people have heard of but still offer so much. It would be nice to highlight both of them.

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  7. Story 1 and story 4. Story 1 because it would be a nice alternative to see photographic and video journalism contribute to your article and story 5 because I it would be interesting to hear 'why we are not our brains'.

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  8. I agree with Leona, stories 1 and 4 are the best option for you!

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