If you think you are small and the world is big and you would like take achance and make a change into this small part of the world. Then comewith us and become part of our team.
We are now urgently looking active staff for our magazine positions asbelow:We look for persons who has ENTHUSIASTISM, CREATIVITY, PASSION for writing and RESPONSIBILITY.
REPORTERs: We need a group of people who love writing and are willingto spare their time with writing for us. Reporters will be mostly writingfeature stories. Interview people for the magazine. Be questioning andhave interesting new angle to present to the readers.
COPY-EDITOR: This position should be a English native speaker or even aperson who is really good at English and know a lot about English grammar.Know well about Thai or Isaan context is perferable!
CONTRIBUTOR or COLUNMISTs: We need persons who are willing to sitand write good articles for us a story per 3-4 months.
PHOTOGRAPHERs: We need sort of persons who love photography andhave a unique style of putting a story through the camera lens. If you owna camera will be desirable.
GRAPHIC DESIGNERs: We need people who are able to operatePhotoshop, Illustrator or PageMaker and help design the cover.
This first issue will be an TRY OUT version. You never try you never know!The magazine will be in photocopied hardcopy.If you are seriously interested in becoming a part of our editorial team,please look at the magazine outline in the previous post.Be the change that you want to be!Thank you for your time.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Why English Crazy Magazine?
Thanks for your interest in our upcoming magazine! The magazine will be first a try out version. I am not sure how it is going to work out, since not many students like to read English here. But I believe that we make it interesting and easy for them to read. It may out work someway. I just want to give it a try. By the way, you can read our magazine outline below. What do you think about it?
Last year, I graduated from local university in Ubon Ratchathani and last 5 years I had a chance to join a junior reporter workshop with Nation Junior Magazine, which is a part of Nation Multimedia in Bangkok. And now I already have 10 articles published with Nation Junior magazine and I also contribute my Isaan story online published with www.khaosanroad.com.At university, a group of my friends and I founded the English Crazy Club, which runs English camps for students in rural area of the northeast Thailand (www.englishcrazycamp.blogspot.com) and also a teaching project which welcomes volunteer all over the world to come teaching English in Isaan (www.learn2give.blogspot.com). Since we started our club 5 years already, we have learned a lot from many people that we involved with, we worked with many volunteers from different countries around the globe. We see more world from listening to their storytelling of their trips.
Last year, I graduated from local university in Ubon Ratchathani and last 5 years I had a chance to join a junior reporter workshop with Nation Junior Magazine, which is a part of Nation Multimedia in Bangkok. And now I already have 10 articles published with Nation Junior magazine and I also contribute my Isaan story online published with www.khaosanroad.com.At university, a group of my friends and I founded the English Crazy Club, which runs English camps for students in rural area of the northeast Thailand (www.englishcrazycamp.blogspot.com) and also a teaching project which welcomes volunteer all over the world to come teaching English in Isaan (www.learn2give.blogspot.com). Since we started our club 5 years already, we have learned a lot from many people that we involved with, we worked with many volunteers from different countries around the globe. We see more world from listening to their storytelling of their trips.
Currently I am partly working for the field station of Institute Nutrition of Mahidol University and a full time as a cultural interpreter for Sweet Mango Tours (www.sweetmangotours.com) in Ubon Ratchathani in the northeast of Thailand.I hope my story about can help you picture why we would like to produce this magazine and how I want it to be like. And that is how my idea has begun!
What do you think about our 'Magazine Outlines'?
ENGLISH CRAZY MAGAZINE [name can be changed]English Crazy Club’s Handmade/Online Magazine [Photocopied Magazine]
SLOGAN: Where your inspiration for learning English begins!/ Be crazy 3 times a day
CRAZY CREW MAGAZINE is published by English Crazy Club in Ubon Ratchathani. It is a handmade-local English magazine for young English students of Isaan to practice their English as well as improving their life skills in the changing world. It is produced by a team of young blood writers who study English and have a passion for writing and would like to encourage the young students to read English more. The language in the magazine is easy to read and not difficult to understand, it not only helps them to improve their English, but hopefully also helps them to look back into their history, appreciate their cultures, live the present wisely and carefully prepare them to look forward to the future.
Target group:
Liberal art students at Ubon Ratchathani University
English majored-student at Ubon Ratchathani University
Senior highshool students around Ubon and nearby province
Time of launching: 3 months per issueNumber of issues: 100-200 copies
Number of pages: 25-30 pages
[Cover Story Theme] - sampling
July-September --- English must be ‘Crazy’
October-December --- Student’s Life
January-March --- Volunteerism
April-June --- Travel
COVER PAGE
Cartoon drawing of photo cover story
CONTENT PAGE
Photograph
Lists of feature and columns Lists of editorial team
EDITORIAL
Editor Talks – An overview about the stories in magazine
Letter to Editor – Feedback letter from the readers (wait until second issue)
FEATURES (depends on the cover story)
The Story of English Crazy Club
Free ticket to English camp
English Crazy Syndromes
Your Say – Why study English?
How did you get your English improved?
COLUMNS
Passport to Dream/ Walk of Lives [This is for English Crazy Reporter Team]
The Interviews people from many walk of lives about how hard it is to reach the dream and what makes them to be what they are today, like the road to success.
Travel Story – I’ve been there and done that… [Open to anyone] A fun, wonderful, memorable travel story that you can’t hide but want to share to people around you. A story can be from any part of the world. It could be a low-budget trip, hitch-hiking or backpacking trip or even visiting your own hometown.
Letters from Oversea – Diary Oversea- (I miss Thailand) - [Open to any foreigners]This column would be a story about a traveler who used to travel to Thailand and miss his/her Thailand days, recalling the old days, meeting up Thai friends and making good friendship with them, or even abouta culture shock during going back home and more…
Poem and Picture [Open to anyone]If you love taking photos and writing a poem, this column is for you. You will enjoy matching your poem toyour photography. If you only like taking photo, we also have selected poems for you to match, or we also have photograph to match your poems.
English Crazy Cartoon [Open to anyone]This will be a funny, crazy cartoon about Thai students learning English, which is based on our stupid mistake about studying English. If you are good at drawing and storytelling, this column is for you!
Volunteer Life/Gap Year experience/summer camps [Open to anyone] It is about a meaningful story of gap year traveler. Or it could be like a feature story of youth camps around Ubon.
On the way
This will be an interview with any traveler to Ubon Ratchathani, about what he/she thinks about place or people in the land of lotus, Ubon.
Life on Campus [Open to anyone] This would be about a story of one life living in a university. How can we make this story interesting? Let’s share your ideas with us.
Conversation with Monk (peaceful corner) [Open to anyone]Looking for a person who appreciates ‘Buddha’s teaching’ and would like to share those wonderful experience about Buddhism to the young readers.
Life in the countryside [Open to anyone]This column will be about local wisdom and simple lifestyle in the village of our Isaan culture, or it is old story which is kept in your old wonderful memory when you were young. And you would like to recall those experiences back to life by telling the stories to our young readers. If you have something in common, were born and raised in countryside, why not put a pen to a paper and write for us…
Farangs in the land of ‘Plara’(fermented fish)This will be a column for any farang who lives in the land of plara and would like to share their faraway-from-home experience in Isaan land to its Isaan young readers.
Crazy Jokes – [Open to anyone]It is Thai/Isaan that make sense English. Book for You – recommending books to readers (optional)Song - recommending songs to readers (optional)
FUN STUFF/QUIZ
Quiz – drawn from stories in the magazine
ECC Application
SPONSORS: English Crazy Bank and we are looking for more sponsors to come in the near future.
SLOGAN: Where your inspiration for learning English begins!/ Be crazy 3 times a day
CRAZY CREW MAGAZINE is published by English Crazy Club in Ubon Ratchathani. It is a handmade-local English magazine for young English students of Isaan to practice their English as well as improving their life skills in the changing world. It is produced by a team of young blood writers who study English and have a passion for writing and would like to encourage the young students to read English more. The language in the magazine is easy to read and not difficult to understand, it not only helps them to improve their English, but hopefully also helps them to look back into their history, appreciate their cultures, live the present wisely and carefully prepare them to look forward to the future.
Target group:
Liberal art students at Ubon Ratchathani University
English majored-student at Ubon Ratchathani University
Senior highshool students around Ubon and nearby province
Time of launching: 3 months per issueNumber of issues: 100-200 copies
Number of pages: 25-30 pages
[Cover Story Theme] - sampling
July-September --- English must be ‘Crazy’
October-December --- Student’s Life
January-March --- Volunteerism
April-June --- Travel
COVER PAGE
Cartoon drawing of photo cover story
CONTENT PAGE
Photograph
Lists of feature and columns Lists of editorial team
EDITORIAL
Editor Talks – An overview about the stories in magazine
Letter to Editor – Feedback letter from the readers (wait until second issue)
FEATURES (depends on the cover story)
The Story of English Crazy Club
Free ticket to English camp
English Crazy Syndromes
Your Say – Why study English?
How did you get your English improved?
COLUMNS
Passport to Dream/ Walk of Lives [This is for English Crazy Reporter Team]
The Interviews people from many walk of lives about how hard it is to reach the dream and what makes them to be what they are today, like the road to success.
Travel Story – I’ve been there and done that… [Open to anyone] A fun, wonderful, memorable travel story that you can’t hide but want to share to people around you. A story can be from any part of the world. It could be a low-budget trip, hitch-hiking or backpacking trip or even visiting your own hometown.
Letters from Oversea – Diary Oversea- (I miss Thailand) - [Open to any foreigners]This column would be a story about a traveler who used to travel to Thailand and miss his/her Thailand days, recalling the old days, meeting up Thai friends and making good friendship with them, or even abouta culture shock during going back home and more…
Poem and Picture [Open to anyone]If you love taking photos and writing a poem, this column is for you. You will enjoy matching your poem toyour photography. If you only like taking photo, we also have selected poems for you to match, or we also have photograph to match your poems.
English Crazy Cartoon [Open to anyone]This will be a funny, crazy cartoon about Thai students learning English, which is based on our stupid mistake about studying English. If you are good at drawing and storytelling, this column is for you!
Volunteer Life/Gap Year experience/summer camps [Open to anyone] It is about a meaningful story of gap year traveler. Or it could be like a feature story of youth camps around Ubon.
On the way
This will be an interview with any traveler to Ubon Ratchathani, about what he/she thinks about place or people in the land of lotus, Ubon.
Life on Campus [Open to anyone] This would be about a story of one life living in a university. How can we make this story interesting? Let’s share your ideas with us.
Conversation with Monk (peaceful corner) [Open to anyone]Looking for a person who appreciates ‘Buddha’s teaching’ and would like to share those wonderful experience about Buddhism to the young readers.
Life in the countryside [Open to anyone]This column will be about local wisdom and simple lifestyle in the village of our Isaan culture, or it is old story which is kept in your old wonderful memory when you were young. And you would like to recall those experiences back to life by telling the stories to our young readers. If you have something in common, were born and raised in countryside, why not put a pen to a paper and write for us…
Farangs in the land of ‘Plara’(fermented fish)This will be a column for any farang who lives in the land of plara and would like to share their faraway-from-home experience in Isaan land to its Isaan young readers.
Crazy Jokes – [Open to anyone]It is Thai/Isaan that make sense English. Book for You – recommending books to readers (optional)Song - recommending songs to readers (optional)
FUN STUFF/QUIZ
Quiz – drawn from stories in the magazine
ECC Application
SPONSORS: English Crazy Bank and we are looking for more sponsors to come in the near future.
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