To be honest I did not go to class Oct. 24 as it was deadline of the first module essay which was also the first time I wrote assessed one in English.
I was quite nervous and not sure about how to arrange the content and structure though I had asked help from classmates.
I completely had no spared strength to go to class. However I was satisfied with the results of this very first essay as I tried as possible as I could at the moment.
Friday, 26 October 2007
Saturday, 20 October 2007
Principles review - week 4
On Oct. 17 Richard gave us a lecture on the form of government in England, which I thought was a culture issue for overseas students.
We learnt something about local and central government, the big city mayors, local councils and their functions/employees/money, acts on government, also issues about the parliament.
The lecture was interesting and helpful, especially when I was doing radio package exercise during the radio class.
At that time the sources Deborah gave us were about the lost of two dicks of ID card information, which story involved several government staff.
And how we covered this kind of news was taught by Richard.
The brief principles were to remember my readers, to do homework, to be accurate and fair, and to follow house style.
Well, the theories were applied to practice.
And in the afternoon we were out to the Crown Court at Harrow.
I was grateful for the chance of being a visitor at the real trial in western countries.
Although hardly could I follow the lawyers and the judge, I went to four or five different courts, I listened to criminal cases as well as civil ones.
We learnt something about local and central government, the big city mayors, local councils and their functions/employees/money, acts on government, also issues about the parliament.
The lecture was interesting and helpful, especially when I was doing radio package exercise during the radio class.
At that time the sources Deborah gave us were about the lost of two dicks of ID card information, which story involved several government staff.
And how we covered this kind of news was taught by Richard.
The brief principles were to remember my readers, to do homework, to be accurate and fair, and to follow house style.
Well, the theories were applied to practice.
And in the afternoon we were out to the Crown Court at Harrow.
I was grateful for the chance of being a visitor at the real trial in western countries.
Although hardly could I follow the lawyers and the judge, I went to four or five different courts, I listened to criminal cases as well as civil ones.
Sunday, 14 October 2007
Principles review - week 3
During the whole day of Oct. 10 we were doing exercise on finding and pushing the stories.
We’ve got a paper with three pieces of news each with very short report.
And we needed to do much research to expand the story and try to make it a whole one.
We did group discussion that afternoon and each member was responsible for one part of the research.
Actually I just followed the orders and did what I should do, but had a hazy understanding why I doing so.
And I found the answer when I was in radio class.
On radio live days we must choose a story quickly in the morning and then do research on it from at least two agencies.
It was interesting on the day that almost all the groups chose the same story from three, in which condition we could better compared each groups’ angle of pushing the story.
We’ve got a paper with three pieces of news each with very short report.
And we needed to do much research to expand the story and try to make it a whole one.
We did group discussion that afternoon and each member was responsible for one part of the research.
Actually I just followed the orders and did what I should do, but had a hazy understanding why I doing so.
And I found the answer when I was in radio class.
On radio live days we must choose a story quickly in the morning and then do research on it from at least two agencies.
It was interesting on the day that almost all the groups chose the same story from three, in which condition we could better compared each groups’ angle of pushing the story.
Saturday, 6 October 2007
Principles review - week 2 day 3
On Oct. 4 morning we were discussing research techniques for broadcasting news.
And we wrote a report on twenty-four hours news channel in terms of background of birth of the channel, what and how the channel covers, and its national impact.
In the afternoon we had a lecture on journalistic law and ethics which was somewhat the same as module of issues in journalism.
Though during the class I found it difficult to understand everything teacher said as the cases she illustrated mostly were local.
But it in fact gave me an impression of these cases and principles like defamations and defenses which were helpful afterwards when I wrote essays.
And we wrote a report on twenty-four hours news channel in terms of background of birth of the channel, what and how the channel covers, and its national impact.
In the afternoon we had a lecture on journalistic law and ethics which was somewhat the same as module of issues in journalism.
Though during the class I found it difficult to understand everything teacher said as the cases she illustrated mostly were local.
But it in fact gave me an impression of these cases and principles like defamations and defenses which were helpful afterwards when I wrote essays.
Principles review - week 2 day 2
On Oct. 3 we went out to do vox pops.
Of course this was the first time I did it and it was much easier than I expected to stop people and to ask them three questions.
All I needed was to be brave. Well, the same problem for me was my poor listening to different accents.
Consequently, I got difficulty in writing down quickly what people said on the condition that to beg of them to say again was not available when they were busy.
I should thanks for my partner’s help. Certainly I could do vox pops much better today.
Of course this was the first time I did it and it was much easier than I expected to stop people and to ask them three questions.
All I needed was to be brave. Well, the same problem for me was my poor listening to different accents.
Consequently, I got difficulty in writing down quickly what people said on the condition that to beg of them to say again was not available when they were busy.
I should thanks for my partner’s help. Certainly I could do vox pops much better today.
Principles review - week 2 day 1
On Oct. 2 we practiced another skill – how to ask the right questions to interviewees.
And we had an immediately class interviewing workshop.
The gentle guy from Cuba, Deny, was my partner.
In the start of living overseas, we two were both not very good at English.
So the process of interviewing with each other became very interesting.
I was especially appreciated his friendship since he talked a lot his happy family especially his lovely son, as well as lots of his working experiences.
I learnt much from him about the intense but orderly work in practice.
And, to my surprise, he gave me a poster of beautiful seaside view in La Havana as a gift.
It was really an impressive interview with him.
In the afternoon when we came back to newsroom to write this report, I found that when I had just written one line he had already finished two paragraphs.
That was the gap between professionals and outsiders.
And we had an immediately class interviewing workshop.
The gentle guy from Cuba, Deny, was my partner.
In the start of living overseas, we two were both not very good at English.
So the process of interviewing with each other became very interesting.
I was especially appreciated his friendship since he talked a lot his happy family especially his lovely son, as well as lots of his working experiences.
I learnt much from him about the intense but orderly work in practice.
And, to my surprise, he gave me a poster of beautiful seaside view in La Havana as a gift.
It was really an impressive interview with him.
In the afternoon when we came back to newsroom to write this report, I found that when I had just written one line he had already finished two paragraphs.
That was the gap between professionals and outsiders.
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