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Storify vs. Scoop.it

After working a bit with both Storify and Scoop.it and being able to compare the two, I've come to a few conclusions on how to best utilize the sites. 

Storify:  

Pros: Storify is great for, obviously, creating stories.  Since users can curate from social media sites such as Twitter, Flickr and Instagram, there's a lot more minuta to be included.  It's more appropriate to include brief tweets on Storify than on Scoop.it. You can include tiny details and truly construct your own story based on what you choose to include.  You can also better narrow your search for content much easier than scoop.it by adding new sites to pull from or simply altering your search words.

Cons: You also get a lot of nonsense amidst the gems because Twitter is a main base to pull content from...and we all know people tend to use Twitter as a place to share whatever unimportant fact that pops into their head and no one needs to be qualified or have any understanding of grammar to tweet.  You also must have a very narrow focus for a story to make an effective final product.

VERDICT: Use for specific stories, rather than broad topics.

Scoop.it:

Pros: Very user friendly.  When you create your story, you type in key words, and the site does all the searching.  Every time you log in, there's a plethora of content waiting to be curated - it's like having a personal shopper. You can also search around on your own using the "scoop.it" icon on your toolbar, which expands the possibilities for content.

Cons: Changing search words/search functions are not as clear...for example, when I typed in "deYoung" initially, my brain understood that as a museum, Scoop.it finds me anything ever written about anyone with the last name "DeYoung" - not helpful.  Also, unsure how to "scoop" directly from Twitter and Instagram without just screen-shotting and giving attribution.  

VERDICT:Use for broad topics rather than telling a specific story.

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Interested in Greek Life?  Watch this short video about what it means to be a Delta Zeta at the University of San Francisco!

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How to Celebrate 2013 Chinese Lantern Festival in San Francisco

2013-2-22 Preface

Intro of Lantern Festival

(Chinese Lantern Festival Activists---Lantern Show)    

     For Chinese, we have many traditional festivals during the whole year. This time, I want to show a special festival at the beginning of the year---Lantern Festival. This festival is different from others. Lantern festival is the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. According to Chinese history, ancients regarded the "night" as "xiao". Thus, the 15th day of the 1st lunar is called Lantern Festival in China. At that night, we can see the first full moon of year.  

(Ancient Lantern Festival In China)

Lantern Festival is considered as the climax of Spring Festival and embodies Chinese agriculture. The reason is people will begin their production of year after this day. In order to pray for good weather for the crops and have good harvest, people celebrate this important festival with everybody. In China, other festivals emphasize the reunion with family. Difference from the custom of other festivals, Lantern Festival prefer to emphasize the national celebration. During the Lantern Festival, people will burn lamp and hold entertainments. The day became a hilarious festival of Chinese. 

Nowadays, people celebrate this festival in lots of activists, such as shopping in the fair, watch lantern, guess lantern riddles, dragon dance, lion dance and so on. Lantern Festival inherit about 2000 years and prevail all over the world. In the United States, we can see numerous Chinese immigrants. Especially, the Chinese in San Francisco Lantern Festival by lantern parade. People can enjoy happiness together no matter who you are. Lantern Festival is specific and important for Chinese including me. Lantern Festival not only represent the Chinese culture, but also relates to our miss of home. I am studying aboard and could not celebrate this particular day with my family or friends, so I went to Chinatown and celebrated the festival with others last two years. The lantern parade is held annual in San Francisco, so I enjoyed this parade at last two years and I will be no exception this year. 

2013-2-23  Celebration of Lantern Festival in San Francisco 

I went to the Lantern Festival Parade last two years and I also did the same thing this year for celebrate this particular day.The parade started at 5:10pm on Market Street. People in different area, such as government member, businessman and  students took part in this parade.The Lantern Festival Parade combines western and Eastern cultures. This parade attracted diverse communities. I remember that the weather was not good in last two Lantern Festival; However, it was so warm this year and attracted more and more people come to enjoy this parade. Look at this years' parade, I found the parade dimension is bigger than that of last two years. Because of the good weather and larger dimension, numerous of people went to watch this parade and celebrate the festival with others. Thus, the sidewalks were crowded and I could not find a good place to watch the parade closely. Similar to the previous parades,  dragon dance was spindle of the parade and many kinds of floats followed the dragon dance. The floats attired with beaming red and gold ingots.This decoration indicated to pray for  good weather for the crops and earn more money. Especially, I can hear firecrackers' sound. In San Francisco, people is not allow to set off fireworks and firecrackers ordinarily but in the celebration of Chinese Lantern Festival. The firecrackers sound gave me a strong atmosphere of the Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival. Let's watch the parade in Downtown and experience the happy atmosphere.

During the Lantern Festival parade, I received a picture from my friend in China. She sent me a picture of the celebration in my hometown. I saw many people go out and enjoy this festival. 

(The night of Lantern Festival in my hometown).

At that moment, I missed my family and friends so much. I also remember that I always got a nice lantern from my grandfather in Lantern Festival when I was a child. I could go out and have fun with the lantern. In China, children may desire to have a lantern in this festival. Lantern is a specific toy in this day and bring lots of funny for children. I found it is so hard to make a lantern when I was a child, but, I can make it easily now.

Finally, i celebrated a wonderful Lantern Festival

I enjoyed this lantern parade in San Francisco these years. I could not celebrate the Chinese new year and this festival with my family but I enjoy this strong atmosphere with others in SF. The Lantern Festival parade was so wonderful. People from diverse communities can enjoy this festival together. 

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Delta Zeta's Boat Tour:

A short video of my sorority's Spring activity - a boat tour of the Bay.

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So excited to see Tahiti Pehrson's art on the cover of San Francisco Magazine!  Here are some pictures I took in our gallery juxtaposing the magazine looks with the actual art on view in Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco.

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2013 Celebration of Lantern Festival in San Francisco

2013-2-22  Preface

Intro of Lantern Festival

# Chinese Lantern Festival Activists---Lantern Show    

     For Chinese, we have many traditional festivals during the whole year. This time, I want to show a special festival at the beginning of the year---Lantern Festival. This festival is different from others. Lantern festival is the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. According to Chinese history, ancients regarded the "night" as "xiao". Thus, the 15th day of the 1st lunar is called Lantern Festival in China. At that night, we can see the first full moon of year.  

    Lantern Festival is considered as the climax of Spring Festival and embodies Chinese agriculture. The reason is people will begin their production of year after this day. In order to pray for good weather for the crops and have good harvest, people celebrate this important festival with everybody. In China, other festivals emphasize the reunion with family. Difference from the custom of other festivals, Lantern Festival prefer to emphasize the national celebration. During the Lantern Festival, people will burn lamp and hold entertainments. The day became a hilarious festival of Chinese. 

     Nowadays, people celebrate this festival in lots of activists, such as shopping in the fair, watch lantern, guess lantern riddles, dragon dance, lion dance and so on. Lantern Festival inherit about 2000 years and prevail all over the world. In the United States, we can see numerous Chinese immigrants. Especially, the Chinese in San Francisco Lantern Festival by lantern parade. People can enjoy happiness together no matter who you are. Lantern Festival is specific and important for Chinese including me. Lantern Festival not only represent the Chinese culture, but also relates to our miss of home. I am studying aboard and could not celebrate this particular day with my family or friends, so I went to Chinatown and celebrated the festival with others last two years. The lantern parade is held annual in San Francisco, so I enjoyed this parade at last two years and I will be no exception this year. 

2013-2-23  Celebration of Lantern Festival in San Francisco (Coming Up) ....

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Interview with USF Senior on her semester abroad in London, England.