Linn-Benton Community College bustled with activity Wednesday as students descended upon the campus for Welcome Day. Based on the number of students who turned out and enjoyed the festivities, Welcome Day seemed a huge success! The staff of the student newspaper, The Commuter, was on hand to try several new elements of its website,...
This is my favorite time of year to run in Corvallis. Eugene may be Tracktown, USA, and Portland has its Forest Park, but for the number of great runs less than five minutes from your front door, Corvallis is hard to beat. My three favorites? Bald Hill, west of the city. The Willamette Riverfront...
This won’t be the year that students in my Media & Society class at LBCC bring their iPads to class so they can make notes on key points from the textbook, save related videos on their YouTube playlists, and post questions and comments via Twitter. But that’s only because the text we’re using isn’t...
For most of the past decade, I’ve spent this last Saturday night of August at the beach. Specifically, the beach in Seaside — the finish line for the annual Hood-to-Coast Relay. This is one of the few times in the past 10 years that I haven’t done the 197-mile relay from Timberline Lodge atop...
The Commuter, LBCC’s student newspaper, has a new look to its website. Seven students overhauled the site this summer while working on their Cooperative Work Experience credits. Among their objectives were to: Give the site a fresh new look. Take advantage of more design and content options available through WordPress. Make it easier for...
The more I use Twitter, the more I like it. And the more people use it, the more funny videos people are bound to make. Here’s a new one that my students will love this fall in Media & Society … or whenever. -rp- p.s. To learn more, follow me at twitter.com/robpriewe
At a gathering of friends last night, we mentioned that we recently enjoyed seeing the band OK Go. After we got past “Who’s that?” we explained that we didn’t actually hear the L.A. band perform at the Majestic Theatre in Corvallis. Rather, we watched them drink beer brought over from Block 15, sit comfortably...
