journogeek's Recent Projects

water molecule

My friend Spiderman made this project. He says: The red ball is an oxygen atom.The blue balls are hydrogen atoms.When all of the come together it makes H2O.Thats where the rain comes in.

Weather report

My notes: On the morning of June 9, 2009, thunderstorms blanketed the northeastern United States. When I saw Facebook and Twitter status messages reporting on the storms as they moved up the coast in real time, I got the idea to create this story. If Scratch had the ability to work with a database and mapping software, it would be possible to aautomatically pull Twitter status messages into the story and place them on the map automatically using geotagging. Still, this demo illustrates the concept I have in mind. Thanks to the creator of the great rain simulator that this project is based on as well. Original notes: YOU MUST DOWNLOAD IT FOR BETHER PREFORMANCE! Ok now,this is version 3,but i didnt place any switch's to change betwin ambience,becouse i dont have any rain or anything else for that matter! This simulation is originally made by me "mixa205" The good thing is that i did this completly on my own... please if you love this death hunting cold rain press i love it! This is the most realistic simulation! Download it for your projects,.... Tell your friends about this MADE: i made pics with scratch's paint program,and i added a little extra like "fisheye and color....background whit all of that and brightest...." Rain are random,infact all of that is random XD.... Thanx for viewing my project,i hope i have enought time to look at yours

Word Shooter

This is an adaptation of Macca's Space Shooter project. HOW TO PLAY: Up/Down/Left/Right = Direction Arrows Space = Shoot Shoot the misspelled words while trying to avoid their lasers. Eventually, Bill Gates will become annoyed (for reasons I'm unsure of atm) and begin to attack. Defeat Bill Gates to save the world!

CRTLC

This is a presentation for the Culturally Responsive Teaching Learning and Counseling Symposium, January 24, 2009 at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs College of Education. More information about the research described here is at http://www.tcnj.edu/~ijims. Two notes on operating the slideshow: After the opening sequence, there are pictures of the program participants. When those pictures stop cycling, press the space bar to reveal the text slides. To advance the text slides, click on them.

blogherscratch

This is a report on the Scratch@MIT conference for BlogHer.com. Most of the images are from the Scratch conference website, except for the picture of me, which was taken by Steven Thomas.

Photojournalism basics

An interactive lesson about photojournalism history, techniques and ethics. This version corrects some errors in the first version.

photojourno

An interactive lesson about photojournalism history, techniques and ethics. This version corrects some errors in the first version.An interactive lesson about photojournalism history, techniques and ethics. All of the images that are not from the Scratch library are either in the public domain, or available under either a Creative Commons or GNU license. Specifically, the camera image comes from Tango Desktop. The Matthew Brady, Frances Johnston, Hampton Institute and Civil War images are from the Library of Congress. The Gordon Parks images also from the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection. The 1943 pictures of the two girls and Duke Ellington were taken when Parks worked for the WPA. The Michael Jordan photo is by Steve Lipofsky at basketballphoto.com. The gymnastics photo is by Nevit Dilmen.

News Sense

From Journogeek: Thanks to Ironman for working to debug this project! From Ironman: This is an updated version of the News Sense project developed by Journogeek. Almost everything here was done by her, I merely attempted to fix some of the initial bugs. Leave a comment for me if it works. If you have comments about the project itself, you might want to leave those for Journogeek.

Interviewing how-to

This is a basic how to for doing journalistic interviews. There are a few glitches in it, and I want to make it more interactive, but the basic ideas are there.

hatmakingwithdad

This is a short interactive story segment from a documentary project I am working on about the life of Nancybelle Valentine, the first employee at Liz Claiborne corporation. I wanted to illustrate an audio clip in which she shared memories of watching her father make hats in the basement of their home in Harlem in the 1940s. The story is illustrated through images and a short interactive segment. It isn't coordinated with the audio as much as I would like, but I need to get some distance on it. Thinking through the pieces and understanding how to fit all of the scripts together has been quite a learning experience. I could probably make the code a lot more efficient and I will probably edit the audio down some. More information on the overall project is available at The Nancybelle Project.

onjournalism1

This is an attempt at an editorial commentary. My goal was to incorporate sound and interactive graphics. I think I succeeded to a point. My next piece will involve more user interaction.

photoessayforsteven

This is an animation based on a set of camera phone images. I have the photographer's permission to use the images. It is my first attempt to tell a story using Scratch.