Final Blog Post

This week, we made a mobile version of our website.  This way, people can view our site with ease while on their smart phones.  As for our news articles, we have updated the sports section, the world news section, and the technology section.  We feel like we have learned a lot about the world of news during this project.  One thing we came to realize is just how much bias goes into news posts from sources such as Fox News or CNN.  We also learned how hard it can be to create a fully functioning site WITH an active community.  We succeeded to create a working website, but failed to get an active community on our forums.  We look forward to our presentation after we get back from break, as we will really get a chance to talk to everyone about what we have learned from this project.

Dillon Keel, Mason Vargo, and Kyle Lawson.

Week 10

So this week for our week 10 was pretty much average. No major outstanding improvements. New articles were added under the technology, politics and sports section of the websites. Some pretty interesting you should check them out. 

Dillon Keel, Kyle Lawson, Mason Vargo

Week 9 Updates

This week, both our world news and sports sections were updated.  We also updated our forums and suggestions page, removing tne suggestions box and adding a suggestion area into the forums.  This way, everyone can see the suggestions and hopefully give their opinions on it.  We also did this to encourage viewers to make a forum account, as we are really trying to get a community started on there.  It would be appreciated if you would make an account on our forums and give us your suggestions, as it can be difficult at times to think of ways to improve our site.

Kyle Lawson, Dillon Keel, and Mason Vargo

Average week 8

This week fro our website we added new articles under sports, World wide news, and technology. No one has yet taken advantage of using our new tools we added last week. Please check out the messaging and commenting sources. viewers that would use this source would benefit us in making the site better. We are also putting an ad on the morning announcements foe people to check out our website.

Dillon Keel, Kyle Lawson, Mason Vargo

Much needed week 7

This week for our website we have made some major improvements. First off, many new articles have been posted like every other week on each section of the site. The biggest improvement made is we added a program so that the viewers can message us personally to let us know what they think of the site and what we should work on or change. Also we added a section where the viewers can actually comment on the site where other viewers can see what they said. This is a great opportunity for the viewers to have a chat with other viewers. Our group has agreed that this week 7 has been huge in improvements. Please check out our site (dkeel15.weebly.com) and take advantage of what we have added to benefit us, and yourselves!

Dillon Keel, Kyle Lawson, and Mason Vargo.

Not Much New (Week 6)

We really have not been able to think of anything massive to add to our site lately, which has been kind of a disappointment.  We have new articles up for this week, one in world news about Japan being hit by an earthquake, and one in technology about AMDs new graphics card line named "Hawaii".  We plan to have a sports article up by Monday, and by next Wednesday we should have our politics section updated as well.  We will also try to think of something big to add to our website this week, whether it be a change in the website appearance or something else, we will try to improve on something, and we look forward to it.

Mason Vargo, Kyle Lawson, and Dillon Keel.

Great Progress (Week 5)

We can all agree at this point in our project that we have figured out the basic steps of publishing our news articles on the site.  We also now have every section of our website displaying current posts as well as earlier ones, and this weeks articles include articles on the MLB playoffs, the new galaxy round, and Haiti suing the U.N.  We have also changed the layout of some of the news sections a bit, just so they look nice.  Overall, its still enjoyable, as it is always fun trying to improve our site, may it be in small ways or large.  We look forward to what we will improve on next week.

Mason Vargo, Dillon Keel, and Kyle Lawson.

We are finally up (Week 3)

This week has proven to be a very eventful and exciting week for us. We have finally set up and published our site, and have a working web address which will be linked in this post.  We are still in the process of getting  familiar with the site editor, but we should have the process down soon. In fact, it's actually quite fun learning how frustrating it can be to create a website, and we are now starting to show more respect towards those who put their time in effort into making the sites we regularly use today.  We have two articles up at the moment, one in technology about iOS 7and one in world news about a Pakistan bus bombing.  We should have a sports section up by Monday, and by next Friday we should have a completed site.  We also did a pitch for our news site last Thursday, using a news paper to help demonstrate how our news would be written differently than someone's every day news paper.  We were nervous at first about how the pitch would go, but it went smoother than expected, and after we explained our idea to the first person that asked us about our project, it was very easy.  We are enjoying this experience so far, and look forward to the challenges to come, as we plan to add even more to the site, ranging from better layout of the news sections to even a moderated comment section, where readers can comment on our news reports, giving and sharing their opinions on the events taking place in modern day society (as long as they are appropriate and not offensive), and will also be able to make suggestions to us, which we will use to improve our site in the future.

Dillon Keel, Mason Vargo, & Kyle Lawson.

Website Link: http://dkeel15.weebly.com/

Welcome to our new news blog! (week 1)

The project that our group has chosen to do is creating a weekly news thread. The main idea of this is to paraphrase news happening around the world and break it down into simpler terms for people of all levels. Each week, our main idea is to read or watch news and digest it. We are very excited about this project. Helping others benefit is, well, our biggest goal in this project. We are hoping many people will enjoy the outcome of our work as well as you tuning in every week to learn what's happening in this world.

Dillon Keel, Kyle Lawson, & Mason vargo 

It's up! (week 2)

The best resource for all news is now up!

       Our project has now been kick-started into action after the long and anticipated wait!

The three of us (Dillon Keel, Kyle Lawson, Mason Vargo) have been working hard to get your news to you as soon as possible. Unfortunately, because of all of this transitioning, we don't have many news highlights of this week. On the other hand, we do have some coverage of Apple's new iOS 7, which can be found through the direct website link below. We promise to get the website in full gear with news after next week's presentation that we're very excited about!

Link:

dkeel.weebly.com