Filed under: analysis of course, The Journo files | Tags: Edinburgh Napier news, Group b, live rolling news days, London
As me and my fellow Group B comrades walked wistfully into the classroom/boardroom the nerves were electrifying the atmosphere in the room as our Lecturer and teacher informed us that our marks would soon be given back to us from out live rolling news day.
We all felt really good after the live rolling news day. We had all worked extremely well together and the general feeling in the room was that of calm with no sound but of the light tapping of keyboards.
The suspense was killing us as we had to wait for all the stragglers turning up late due to bus delays, traffic and dragon attacks.
Once everyone had settled down, we were given our mark…
74%, the highest mark I have achieved at university so far! The grins around the room would even be envied by the Cheshire cat! So many positive remarks were made about the live rolling news day especially our teamwork and the amount of original stories produced. The amount of effort that had gone into showed in our mark and I personally could not be any happier with it.
The fact that our group had people working extremely hard on the wires trying to get the latest stories for the group, court stories from that very morning and stories submitted using iPhone technology from London on the Student protests, showed what lengths the group was willing to go to, to make progress in their journalistic writing.
The live rolling news day’s were an excellent tool to help us progress in story writing. The news days have been a growing experience with improvements made in each attempt. Obviously there is always room for improvement but I found that my confidence has grown since the first news day activity.
Visits to the city chambers and previous visits to parliament have also helped my confidence grow in asking and inquiring searching for quotes and writing an original story. It put us in different and varied situation covering wide varied amounts of stories which i found really useful that no visit or no two days were the same. For instance when my group was meant to attend a court visit a protest began to take place outside the city chambers, it was so exciting we were some of the first journalists on site. It propelled us to step up to the mark and perform under surprise and pressure, it was a great experience and a real learning curve.
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