Tuesday, April 24, 2007

End of Class questions

Will I keep blogging and why?
I think I would keep blogging, but it all depends on how much time I have once I get a job. I have my own blog on another site, but haven't been able to keep up with it because it's been so busy trying to graduate.

Best & worst part of the class?
I think the best part of the class was that I got a lot of information about how journalism and reporting is changing because of the internet. What I didn't like was that the course was changed within a few weeks of the start of the semester and it was so utterly changed that it really doesn't resemble the former class. I really wanted the experience with newspaper design because that's the industry I'm heading for and I have a decent amount of layout skills from my work at the Outlook about a decade ago, but I really wanted to be able to get some more skills and help with the newer programs. Also, the number of blogs each week was really difficult to keep up with. Even though I have a smaller course-load than many others, I had a hard time trying to keep up with them. Doing 3 a week, like we did at the beginning of the semester was perfect. I could spend the time I felt they deserved working on them and make them quality posts. But when we started doing 5 a week, that was just too much to keep up with. My other courses gave me some other work to do, and I found that it was next to impossible to do everything that was expected of me just in this class, let alone the others. And, the free topic ones were impossible nearer the end of the semester because I was completely out of ideas!!

One Improvement:
I think that one great improvement would be to split the class in half. One half is newspaper design and layout and the other is spent learning about the internet.

2 comments:

CO260wrchin said...

I agree. The amount of blogs were sometimes a bit overwhelming, and your suggestion of splitting the class in half is similar to mine as well.

Anonymous said...

I agree...there were too many blogs....