I am only including a few of my favorite articles and projects here. If you want to see more, ask.

This list is mostly kept for myself, so I can see how I am growing and keep a log of stories I liked or worked especially hard to find or nail down.

As time goes on, now that I have established this list, I will just add and date the stories. I’ll append a note to some explaining any pertinent information.

If you wish to read some recent articles, you can look on Google News for my name.

Writing

• Mid-August school starts likely to continue (8/2/08)
• Clinton Central’s $22.5M project clears first barrier (7/29/08)
• Federal Reserve plan looks to protect risky borrowers (7/15/08)
  • Related: Impact minimal, but federal action inspires confidence
• Column: Sibling rivalry sometimes lingers into adulthood (7/9/08)
• Schools, immigrants adapt over time (7/7/08)
  • Hispanic pupils face tests in, out of schools

  • Number of English classes for Hispanic students multiplies
• Huffing ‘effects can be deadly’ (6/3/08)
• Lafayette Catholic schools among strongest in nation (5/12/08)
• Cyberbullying has real consequences (5/5/08)
• So you want to teach? K-12 careers call people from diverse paths (4/6/08)
  • Related: Programs speed career moves into classrooms
• Programs give kids more help learning English language (3/10/08)
• Getting back on track (3/4/08)
  • Related: ChalleNGe program gives students a purpose

  • Follow-up: Guard program helps troubled teen find a new focus, future (6/27/08)
• Retired teacher ‘gave his life’ to McCutcheon (2/27/08)
• Districts seek full-day classes (2/21/08)
• When students move, their grades can suffer (2/10/08)
  • Related: Mobility ‘the biggest challenge we face’
• Spanish catching on at Cumberland (2/4/08)
• Senator’s idea doesn’t thrill architects (1/19/08)
• Sweet tooth helps locate missing diamond ring (12/29/07)
• Google Maps pictures — cool or just creepy? (12/28/07)
• Schools giving parents more to do (12/11/07)
• Train, truck collide; driver ‘lucky’ to live (11/3/07)
• Humane society closes admissions (10/30/07)
  • Related: Society’s decision met with skepticism
• Students now cautious about Internet postings (10/21/07)
  • Related: Leaders study students’ rights in regards to online expression
• Game system lowers learning curve at Cumberland (10/3/07)
• Southside makes best of student scrunch (9/15/07)
• Schools in WL adapting with kids (8/12/07)
• Students see dress code on every hanger (8/7/07)
• ‘Hallowed ground’ celebrates 50 years (7/13/07)
  • Related: Central Catholic turns 50: The highlights of a great history
  • Related: CC principal sees bright future
• Schools covet minority teachers (7/10/07)
• Summer jobs are a rite of passage, but fewer teens get them (6/6/07)
• Bus wheels go ’round for 45 years (5/23/07)
• Bargaining for raises (5/13/07)
  • Related: Balancing experience, cost a must for districts
• Rejected, but not dejected (4/26/07)
• Foster parent charged with molesting (4/10/07)
• Schools improve overall (4/5/07)
• Obsolete school computers on way out (3/14/07)
• Lafayette Jeff is on a mission (3/07/07)
  • Related: Falling through the cracks: At-risk students identified
• Winter peak season for kids to contract respiratory bugs (3/02/07)
• Delays put kinks in work schedules (2/09/07)
• School counselors help students deal with life (2/07/07)
• Fire devastates plant in Dayton; no one hurt (1/26/07)
• Full-day K plan moves forward (1/25/07)
• Principal of the year ‘just a nice guy’ (1/18/07)
• Wine 101
• Many people ignore Ohio fireworks law
• Remembering the sacrifice
• Summit County postpones smoking ban enforcement
• ‘I was there’
• Huh? What did you say?
• The price of downloading

Web/Multimedia

• Live-blogging campaign coverage — When Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Clinton came to town my task was to send live updates from the scene for the Web site. This blog entry details the Bill Clinton coverage on jconline and twitter. This one talks a little about what I learned by the time I covered Hillary Clinton.
• Laptops in your future? — project for collaborative online producing course/Kent State JMC Web site; my portion included Web design, interviewing for video and writing the Kent JMC segment
• TV2 history — part of a class project for collaborative online producing/KSU JMC Web site; my portion included Web design, photo scanning, writing the history portion and conducting part of the archival research

Web Design

• CyBurr, Spring 2005
• Fusion, Fall 2004 — placed first for online student magazine for SPJ region 4
• CyBurr, Spring 2004 — placed second as best online magazine in national AEJMC magazine contest

Misc.

• stumblEDucation — a tumble blog of education related news stories, quotes, videos and musings I come across on the Internet. It helps me keep up and share the trend stories I’m reading to better understand my beat.
• Weekly Web site column — samples from the Web site column I wrote for the DKS entertainment section.
• Overheard at KSU — a blog I started to collect funny things people at Kent State say, including mostly those submitted by other students. (As I’m no longer on campus, the blog has been moved to become part of the collection of blogs run by the Daily Kent Stater/StaterOnline.)