NYC in the Holidays

If you love the holiday’s you should experience the holiday season in New York City at least once in your lifetime.

 New York City goes all out during the holiday season. Department stores, businesses, and the city streets pull out their best decorations for tourists.

The most iconic place to visit is the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. The massive tree is a hot spot in New York during the season. Millions pass through Rockefeller Center to take pictures, ice skate, and simply view the tree. It can be hectic and heavily crowded at times, especially later in the day, so the best time to visit would definitely be earlier in the day.

After seeing the tree, make your way down to the Avenue of the Americas and see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Radio City Music Hall. Radio City is home of the Rockettes who participate annually in the show. Each year the show is light hearted and really brings the holiday spirit!

Your next destination is Fifth Ave. Department stores festively decorate their buildings and window displays. The season brings a whole new joy to window-shopping.

Walking along the streets of New York City during the holiday season you can experience joyful music and festive decorations on every block. A visit to the city is sure to kick-off your holiday season and get you into the holiday spirit!
 

Video Project #2 A Day in the Life of a Tutor

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The Academic Support Center at Lyndon State College offers many services to the students.

The faculty and staff of the center offer tutoring in a plethora of subjects, a writing center, academic counseling, ESL, services for students with disabilities, and a math resource center.

They also offer a federally funded program called Project Excel. This programs helps eligible students graduate from college. Project Excel offers tutoring and services for students with disabilities as well, along with academic and personal counseling, scholarships, financial advising, and a laptop lending program.

Student tutors are one of the most easily accessed services of Academic Support. Most tutors are often students enrolled at Lyndon State College, and are hired through a direct hire method, rather than work study. Student tutors are hired by Debra Bailin, the director of Student Academic Development.

Upon arrival to the writing center, which is home of the different services offered by academic support, a student can find a schedule of when tutors are working and the subjects that they are eligible to cover as a tutor. Students are allowed to work with the tutor they have sought out for up to an hour, for the purposes of sanity and a clear mind.

The students can search on the schedule when there will be a tutor available for a specific subject, and they can see who is currently working in the writing center. There are math tutors, writing tutors, science tutors, and tutors for almost every major, like Electronic Journalism Arts and Mountain Recreation.

When it comes to counseling, ESL, services for students with disabilities, and Project Excel, students can seek information and help from the faculty and staff located in the writing center. Often times, the faculty and staff of Academic Support often work one on one with students of this nature, to give them the best possible service they can.

Unlike this, student tutors do not usually work one on one. They sit in the open environment of the writing center, around other students and tutors, to receive the help they are looking for.

Some professors at the college provide extra credit to students who seek help from one of the services offered by Academic Support. Tutors have a log book to record when they have worked with a student, which is available for professors to see, or often times, a brief note can be written by the tutor to the professor, to make them aware that they have worked with a student.

The Academic Support community at Lyndon State College provides a relaxed, helpful environment for students to seek help and guidance.

Final Project Outline

The topic of our final project is where to go during the holiday season in New York City.

The components of multimedia that we would like to use are audio slideshow, video clips, and maps.

Rachel will be the photographer, Vinnie will create the maps, and Camille will put it all together.

Video Project 2 outline

The topic of our second video project is a day in the life of a Lyndon State College tutor. Our tutor is Dom Amato. It is his first year being a tutor and we plan to do a mini feature on him.

We plan to use natural sound of the tutor center, sound from the interview with Dom, and rights free background music.

Camille - Interview
Rachel - Video
Vinnie- Editing

Lyndon Vail Museum

Video Project Breakdown

We are doing our video project on the Vail Museum. As for the audio, it's going to be an interview, however, we aren't to sure about who we are going to Interview at this point. The will also be a faint natural sound in the back ground!

- Write up - Joe
- Video - Vinnie
- Editing - Vinnie
- Conduct interview - Both