Plan a Trip to New York City for the Holiday Season

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!

Here a Google Map with the locations marked so you can plan out your own trip! 

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

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 Synopsis

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

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 State Basketball

The Lyndon State Men's basketball team played their first game of the season against the University of Quebec at Montreal. For the last five years, they have been able to play an exhibition against a Canadian team, which has helped them figure out where they stand, said Coach Joseph Krupinski.

Krupinski has assembled a team that he considers to be very athletic. The team lost four starters from last year who were graduating seniors. He began assembling this year’s team by taking stock of the men who were returning, and finding new men that would be a good fit for the team and piecing the two together. In players, he looks for men with good character and good athleticism, equipped with the skills they need for the upcoming season. There are many things that the team is better at this year, and also many things that they need to work on, said Krupinski. Krupinski admits that he never knows whether or not the team will be ready going into a game, but the teams practices went well.


"I've always felt that our teams here definitely compete hard, and play together," Krupinski said.


Krupinski said that the team overall is not very tall, which can sometimes be a disadvantage. The team’s average height is only about 6 feet tall. While that can be a struggle, some of the key advantages that Krupinski believes his team holds is there speed, quickness at the guard position, and ability to get to the basket. The team needs to work on passing, standing around less on offense, approve their ability to box out, and work on their rotation, said Krupinski.



"We have a lot of areas to improve, it's too early in the year to not improve," Krupinski said.

Krupinski does not know what to expect in the upcoming season, saying that each one is its own journey, but they are hopeful. With so many pieces it will be tough to figure everything out, he says. He is planning on continuous improvement during the busy season they have ahead of them, liked every team plans to do. Overall, Krupinski would like to see the team find its identity, "something for them to hang their hat on," like each team does. Maybe it will be their pressure defense or the ability to get to the basket. Krupinski looks forward to figuring it out.

Video Project 1 Outline

The topic of our first video project will be the men's basketball team. In the video, we will be focusing the story around the teams first game, while out accompaniment will be focused around the team they have created this year. We plan to use video from the game and interviews. The sound sources we will be using is the natural sound from the game, and the sound from the interviews with a player and the coach. Team Assignments: Video-Rachel Veitch Interview & Sound-Camille DeLongis Editing- Rachel and Camille

Saratogian Video Critique

The Saratogian is a local newspaper for Saratoga County in New York.

The newspaper has a website that using multimedia outlets, including video. Most of their videos are a bit longer that a TV news story. The videos range from 3-4 minutes which is double the average broadcast story.

The videos range from professional to amateur looking. Most video stories have a subject around sports, athletes, or politics.

All the videos are located on a side bar labeled Video Feed in the right side of the layout.

I think the videos are a nice feature to the website and compliments the story content very well.