Looking back through my writing in the saved drafts of my laptop I see that i have improved from one essay to the next as well as my final project. The first essay I wrote during this semester was about buget cuts in the school systems from personal experience I had seen the trouble that came along with budget cuts. My research was not as extensive as it should of been and I also did not use as much citations. I felt that I had done my paper in a rush because of procastination and that is why my paper suffered more errors. Our second essay was about the health care reform. At first i didnt know very much about the subject just that it was being very strongly debated over in the whole nation, and President Obama kept tryint to get it to be passed before congress went on break. On this essay I felt like I uncovered more material that I didnt know of before and I had more time to edit my rough draft and fix errors. I feel that after this class I have improved my writing style and what I do to prepare for writing longer essays that usually require doing more research. This class I believed will help me in my future for classes that will require a heavier amount of writing. Working in groups has also taught me more skills such as working with others and being held reliable for information. I found that I can work with both groups and myself and do a good job with it. I have appreciated this class even if at first I was intimidated from all the writing it would require.
My personal writing style May 20, 2010
For me my writing style is very simple. I have to go in a room that is absolutely quiet. I cannot be in a room with people,music or any other distractions. If there is any music i will sing along or I will start talking to people in the room. I am also a big procrastinator i will wait until the last week or days to complete writing assignments. Since i wear contacts my eyes usually get dry while I type so i try to use glasses when I am typing a paper so I can focus more and I can continue to write for a longer amount of time. What I also usually do to help when I start getting writers block is take a break and try to eat a healthy snack like fruit because the smell of fruit energizes me and helps my stomach feel much happier. After I get started on my writing as long as I have information I will be able to write fluently. When I write sometimes though, I feel as if I need to research more so I usually go between researching and typing my paper. I like to write papers when they are something that I know of or something that I am interested because if its not sometimes writing papers seems like a drag to me and I stay up late since I do most of my writing at night. Hopefully I will gain some writing skills during this class. =)
Group work. May 11, 2010
For the past couple weeks we have been working in groups for our projects. I have enjoyed the company of others and meeting new people to work with. Working in groups I think has some benfits it lessons the amount of work for each individual and makes each person focus more on one thing over the other. For my experience i THiNk that by working individualy I learn more about the topic and rely less on others. When I work in groups I also worry if the other members of the group will do a good job. Sometimes I also talk a little more than I should in group work.
Final Project; Citizen journalism December 3, 2009
The television isn’t the only source for news anymore….
Journalism is the conveying of news through media such as radio, television internet by a broadcast presenter. Before only some people could or knew how to share the information to the general public. Journalism started in about 18th Century europe through such things as the printing press that allowed mass production of newspapers. Before journalists could find out about important events and photograph and write about them the way they would like to with their own biases and ideas in the article. It was not as if any normal person could walk around with a camera and write what they felt about in certain events. cameras and printing and such materials were very expensive back then.Newspapers were usually concentrated to a certain region it wasnt like the Modesto Bee would be read in Europe. With the start of the 20th Century new technology started appearing and making the process to obtain and share news became much more easier and reading the Modesto Bee from Europe was really possible. Broadcasters began to appear on televion at the sites of where the news was happening. Trasmitting the news LIVE was a much better way to present to people and for information to get across more smoothly and correctly. As time has progress sharing news has broken geographical boundaries, today we are able to share any type of news with people across the globe with the invention of the internet. Not only that but, now not just professional broadcasters, photographers or writers can portray the news. With new technology such as Video/digital cameras and the internet anyone can find something they find to be important to the public and be able to share it with as big or small of an audience as they choose.
There have been so many advancements in media and the way we can share it. Cameras are a big part of journalism I believe especially when dealing with newspapers. Cameras have changed so much tough from having to be developed from film to being able to print and share your pictures very quickly by just connecting your camera to your computer. With new technology Digital cameras are not only better for faster sharing but also have better details. The internet has been spread more and more it has become cost effective and most people can have a connection to a computer and an internet connection. Cell phones and their new technology have also become very widespread most phones have cameras and even video cameras. All these new technologies have led to a rise in citizen journalism.
With modern technology anyone can participate in citizen journalism by writting in blogs, online forums, uploading digital photos with important significance and writing about them and even uploading videos with sites such as youtube. Technology has advanced so much that any average person can capture or write about news and distribute it worldwide. Citizen journalism I think this is very important tool we now have it helps us have more information around the world. News that you might care about might not always make the local breaking news story or your local newspaper. With citizen journalism though, other journalists might think some news is as important to be informed about and then you will be able to be informed as well when they upload their information and share it with anyone that would like to read it.
Citizen journalism is a very controversial term. Many professional journalists feel that only professionals know the rigors and ethics involved with reporting news to an audience. But their are also professional journalists who practice citizen journalism with blogs and such things. The only difference would be that they are trained professionals then right? I believe so, since I think we all have a right to share news that we think is important, and hiding important information from people sometimes is as bad as lying.
Citizen journalism is very reliable I belive source of information as it is growing and growing. Press has often been accused for framing the news. Also professional journalists have to deal with censorship from companies that makes them have to edit their content in the news they share.Many news channels have took the idea of citizen journalism and have worked with it. Such as having a hotline were people can call in when they know were news is happening and they help in that way or they can send in pictures that relate to events and use them that way.
One very new innovation that I think will boost how much people read and participate in citizen journalism will be the iPhone 3G S. This a phone with new technology that has the ability to record and send your videos straight to youtube to share the news with the rest of the world. So many eyewitnesses will be able to share their information and capture news live with this. I think that with all this advancement of new media. There will be a big increase in citizen journalism in the future.
“Every Citizen is a reporter”, that is the motto for Korean Website Ohmynews it is a Korean website who later then went international. Ordinary people from all around the world can suscribe and write their own articles. Their are not only stories on this site but polls, interviews, and podcasts. I think sites like these are very important. On television and in the radio the things that are said are always revised many times and controlled by censorship. Other sites relating to citizen media is sites such as this one, wordpress.com here many people blog and you can really find information relating to what you are looking for here. Before I was introduced to wordpress and blogging I didnt really know how much ordinary people could contribute to news and information but I have really found out that is a very good tool. It has a video part of wordpress as well and an iphone app for those on the go people. Another site that is very good for sharing information is youtube many citizen journalists share their information here if they recorded it. youtube is very widespread they are now part of apps on iphones which many people have which makes it a great place to put out your information since you would have a big audience.
From its origins of pamphlets to blogging and broadcasting your on videos citizen journalism has became a great tool. We still rely on other types of news but its a good thing that if we ever need deeper information about something or just another source for more news we can rely more on citizen journalism. This type of journalism will of course change throught the years as our technology changes and become easier for us to share information. But.. im sure we will still have news around for a long time, we have learned to rely on our local news broadcasters over the years. They give us good news, weather and tell us about road conditions. Im sure citizen journalism and big news corporations will learn to work alongside one another as many are already starting to do.
These are some videos that I found to be very interesting about citizen journalism. This first one is titled citizen journ vs. traditional journ makes it easy to understand the concept of the these two types of journalism and their similarities and differences. plus its pretty funny I thought.
This other video shows how easy anyone can be able to share their information for it to become breaking news. It is from a company from Finland so I found that to be such good evidence that citizen media is used throughout the world
This other video I would like to share actually goes into the history of citizen journalism and what it is now. It also does good of explaining it in a different way than the first video but gets some of the same information across.
My final project November 19, 2009
For my final project I choose to present it through video since I have been working with that and you tube lately so I think it would be a good way to express my ideas with others. It would also be a better way for others to comprehend since seeing something done is usually better than just reading or hearing.
P/Vodcast November 12, 2009
For my project i chose to combine both a video and a slideshow onto it. I chose to do a slide show because on my photobucket i had plenty of pictures that showed some of the things i do at home or with my friends so i chose some of my favorites and arranged them into a little slideshow. On the photobucket website there was technology to choose the way your slideshow appeared and different fonts in the background so I really liked that about it. The other reason why I chose to do a slideshow on photobucket was that it gave you different options on how you would want to share the slideshow and I thought this would be a way to facilitate the way I could share it on my wordpress blog. I had shared pictures with others using photobucket and I was very familiar with it so I thought I would be able to put it easily on my blog but this was not the case unfortunately. Once I had made the slideshow I tried and tried to put it on my blog, I tried every way possible to try and upload it there but nothing would work out after a couple hours I finally quit on that knowing I wouldnt be able to put it myself. Once in class I found out it was not in the right format. The other technology I used was my digital camera I used it to film myself being interviewed for a little. I decided to get a little interview since my slideshow couldnt really percieve who I am and people couldnt hear me and see what type of person I am.The video was short and quick but it said a couple things about me. At first it was sort of hard to decide what type of video i actually wanted to do or how I would do it since I really dont have that much extra time on my hands all the time. It was easy to load the video from my digital camera the process that took me the longest was actually uploading it beacause I didnt have a youtube account.
my proposal November 7, 2009
In my proposal I think I will write about how television affects my life. I think this is a good because I have much information about television I have lived with and without it for much of my life and have experimented how it is to live with T.V and without it. I think i’ll be able to make a good paper because I have many opionions about T.V and how it affects me.
