Dealing with an ethical issue

Find and discuss an ethical issue. Comment here with your observations.

I have been living in the very same room in the same hall for about two years now.  Nothing about the room has changed.  It's the same bed, same door, same dull white paint job.  But earlier this week I was walking into my room and I saw this on the door.  So I asked my roommate, "Did you put this on my door?"  He told me it had been there ever since we moved in at the beginning of last year.  It was something I probably have seen every single day for the last two school years, and yet I had never noticed it.  I don't know what it is, but it's interesting.

Response to "Open Your Eyes"

I have walked the same way to class all year and for the last month since coming back from winter break I have seen this massive orange piece of earth moving equipment sitting on my route.  It took me awhile to notice it being there, it took me even longer to notice it was basically fenced in, and it sadly took me the longest to realize that it hasn't moved in the twenty something days that I have acknowledged its existence.  I was walking around the past week trying to find something for this blog post, continually passing this tractor never thinking much of it until today when I was walking by I heard two separate people comment on the absurdity of this giant vehicle being fenced in by three feet of paper thin caution fencing.  Both people made the point that the bright orange fencing is pointless and looked ridiculous.  I now we were supposed to observe something new but I saw a scene I had seen daily in a different way by two strangers comments.  I noticed the pointless fence and not the gaudy machine.

Opening My Eyes

I think I'm someone who likes to notice what's going on around me (only if you don't ask that biker that ran me over last semester.) But I think this campus is full of tiny weird things that you'll only notice if you're looking for them. Especially the graffiti, or the chalk on the sidewalks. People put in so much effort drawing things on the campus to promote events or clubs and people just literally walk on by. But recently, I saw this written on the brick wall on Route 1. Apparently, it's been there for a while according to the comments I got on Facebook about it. I just never noticed. Huh.
I think something that I need to work on as a journalist is probably listening more to my surroundings. It is so easy to just be plugged in to our iPhones listening to music than paying attention to (or eavesdropping) on conversations. Staying in tuned to the general feel of society is extremely important, maybe even more important than walking around checking our Twitter feed while walking to class.

Response to "Opening your Eyes" blog

I was unable to post a picture directly commenting on the original post, so here is my response. I took a trip to D.C. on the sunny Sunday of this weekend, and noticed puddles of water all over the National Mall, leftover from the rain on Friday and Saturday. This one puddle stuck out to me, because a group of birds were bathing in the brown water. I noticed that I began to pay attention to to the people walking by, to see who would actually stop to take a picture or watch the scene, but only a little girl stopped and attempted to make them fly away. This made me realize that many people do not pay much attention to the detail of their surroundings, which is a shame because there are little things like birds bathing in a puddle that can tell a lot about the weather, as well as be a cute sight to watch. I also wondered if this happened on the Mall every time a sunny day came after a rainy one. I'm glad I watched the 60 Minutes story, because I'm not sure if I would have stopped to snap a picture of the sight.

Opening your eyes

Following up on our discussion and viewing of the 60 Minutes story "The Eyes have It" what have you noticed in your travels this week that you hadn't before?  What, if any, changes have you noticed in your behavior? Discuss and post a picture on this post before class Tuesday.

Me first. Observed the daffodils are peeking through already.

Items shown in class.

The Eyes Have It

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7423228n

SCRIPT: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-590907.html

Patti Registers New Americans
http://omurphy.net/video/PATTIREGESTERSAMERICANS.wmv

BASIC HTML Notes:

BASIC HTML Notes:

Basic html tags often seen when short-cut Web editor tools are used –- to start a page or to insert in-line code on a page:

A document declaration, followed by these structural tags, are used to start and end your page:

<html>

<head>

<title>

</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

Here are other tags you’ll use over and over:

<b>bold these words</b>

<strong>bold these words</strong>

<i>italicize these words</i>

<em>italicize these words</em>

<br /> this break tag drops your text to the next line

<p>The p tag is used to create a line of space on a page, for new paragraphs, for instance. </p>

You can also use the p tag to center text: <p align=center> center</p>

<a href=”http://www.merrill.umd.edu”>This gives you a link to another site; in this case, the College of Journalism</a>

To write an email link, do this:
<a href=”mailto:richmurphydc@gmail.com ”>richmurphydc@gmail.com</a>

To set up an unordered list of bullets, use UL and LI tags:

<ul>

<li>apples</li>

<li>peaches</li>

<li>pears</li>

</ul>

To pull an image (photo or graphic) onto a page, use the image source tag; this would call in a picture that’s 250 pixels wide and 250 pixels tall:

<img src=”URL GOES HERE” width=”250” height=”250” alt=”descriptive info goes here”  />

Text sizes can be designated with tags ranging from h1, the largest, to h6, the smallest. 

<h1>large headline size</h1>

<h6>small text, often used for captions or photo credits</h6>

You can add attributes to center the headline:

<h1 align=”center”>This centers a large headline.</h1>

To create a horizontal rule, use an HR tag. The following tag centers the rule, over half of the width of your screen:

<hr width=”50%” align=”center” noshade />

We’ll be looking at how cascading style sheets (CSS) can be used to control the size and font styles of text on a page or multiple pages, as well as to control the design of a page.

--Chris Harvey

(Adjunct instructors at UMD’s College of Journalism may Xerox for classroom use.)

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Links to build elements for your page

100 Things I’m Learning at Journalism Interactive 2013

http://collegemediamatters.com/2013/02/08/100-things-im-learning-at-journalism-interactive-2013-a-somewhat-live-blog/

RebelMouse
https://www.rebelmouse.com/rebelmouse/

https://www.rebelmouse.com/atompkins/

Design maps in the cloud, publish in minutes.
http://mapbox.com/

http://batchgeo.com/

Esri inspires and enables people to positively impact the future through a deeper, geographic understanding of the changing world around them.
http://www.esri.com/

Google Fusion Tables
http://www.google.com/drive/start/apps.html#fusiontables

The Journalist’s Learn To Code Resource Guide

http://lifeandcode.tumblr.com/post/11980940683/the-journalists-learn-to-code-resource-guide

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
https://github.com/

Learn to code interactively, for free.
http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0
http://www.lynda.com/

Placeblogger is a site where you can search for local sources of news, information, and community near where you live, work and travel.

http://placeblogger.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/?ss

Data Journalism Handbook
http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

What is Poll Everywhere? It is the best way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices
http://www.polleverywhere.com/

http://www.scribd.com

Resize for mobile

http://cssgrid.net/
http://getskeleton.com/

Tutorials

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/websites/css3/media-queries

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