If you are seeing frequent stops or skipping in the video, start the video and then pause it to buffer the whole movie before playing. When you see the grey percent bar fill, hit play and enjoy.

I'm a 3rd year at Ball State University. I am also a junior class standing, however this doesn't mean I'll be able to graduate as a senior. Due to my double major(Telecommunications/Japanese) I'm behind in a few things and am probably on a 6 year plan.

I realized early on that simply taking Japanese classes was not enough. You have to do a lot of work on the side to really understand and be able to use the language in a real way. Otherwise it's just like you're taking a core requirement world mythology class and only doing enough to get by. You just can't learn a language like that.

Because of this, I've created my own Japanese learning regimen. I'm listing this here not really for anyone else, but for myself. I really need a page I can come to each day, and run down the list; as follows:

1. Watch the daily eNews broadcast from TBS News, and use Quicktime to slow it down a scoche so that I can understand more. At the same time, use an online dictionary to look up as many unknown terms as possible in the alloted time. No further analysis.
2. Study Heisig's Remembering the Kanji and drill through all past-studied kanji on Reviewing the Kanji; the fanmade companion website.
3. Practice writing the kanji from the current lesson of Remembering the Kanji while thinking about the keywords.
4. Prepare coursework for Japanese classes; JAPAN303 - Basic Reading and JAPAN334 - Culture.

Added Very Recently - 02/06/2007

• Macbeth - Act 2; Scene 3
  
• Government Class Project Video

Added Only Semi-Recently 

I have added new content over the last few days, but it might not be apparent from a quick glance at the front page. This little note should fix that.

I have added videos from my TCom332 class to the videos section. These were class projects that I'm very proud of.

• Project 1 - Morning...
• Project 2 - The Letter Writers
  
• Project 3 - Greek Week Commercial
• Project 4 - Counting Crows 'Monkey' Music Video
• Project 5 - Sean Klemme; In His Own Backwards

For those of you who do not attend Ball State or haven't followed my Daily News columns on the Daily News website, there are a few articles I have added that you may have missed over the past few months.

• Streaming Television
• Holier than Thou
• Jackie
• The Soup

I will keep this post updated with the new content as I add that new content.

  If you are seeing frequent stops or skipping in the video, start the video and then pause it to buffer the whole movie before playing. When you see the grey percent bar fill, hit play and enjoy.

I've begun updating the content of the site. First up is the very nice Film section that I've begun adding all my video projects to. They're arranged according to classes they were produced for, and are all very interesting and well done. I'm extremely proud to finally have them up on the site. It was always on the docket for the old site, but was just never gotten around to.