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Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

We call it “convergence”

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Time for LC's media departments to jump on board.

If you ask any of my journalism or broadcasting students what "convergence" is, I hope they will be able to rattle off the top of their heads something like this: "It's the blending of old media with new media." For that, they will get an A.

Indeed, the era of "convergence" has arrived. In fact, it's been here for a while now. Some have been slower to adapt than others, but one thing is clear, those media who want to survive in the new digital age must converge. And so we have.

Our planning for wildcatsmedia.com dates back to the summer months when I interviewed for the job as journalism instructor. One of the things I was told was that LC needed to model its journalism department more for the 21st Century (translation: website). For me, that seemed no problem. After all, I've been doing the work of a "convergent" journalist for some time now. At KALB in Alexandria, I have not only worked as a news anchor for several years, but my past experience includes digital editing, digital cameras for video and still photos, and of course, writing.

What convergence means to me is the opportunity to take all the skills I've learned as a broadcast journalist and blend them all together, as well. As an instructor, it means an opportunity to challenge our print students to learn elements of broadcasting and to challenge our broadcast student to learn elements of print - and then both groups take both of those skill sets and apply them to the Web. Our new student media website only enhances that opportunity.

Getting here has been a methodical process. We wanted to get this website right, and so as we begin, we know that there will still be some tweaking to do. But we're presenting to our LC community - that is, students, faculty, alumni, parents - whomever - the opportunity both to watch and participate in our own convergence process.

Our goal is to provide fresh, current content of LC happenings. I realize for some of our students (as it was for me), the full light perhaps hasn't come on yet - what I mean by that is - they still may not fully see the potential of this new direction. But I know they will. As we continue to add more elements to the website - and continue to get lots of people checking us out, I believe we will be inspired to grow and improve.

So, thanks for logging on. Feel free to offer us feedback. After all, we feel that it's your website, too.

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