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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Media Literacy
- Not just having the ability to analyze media, but the ability to create it
Being able to analyze media is a very important skill to have, if you believe and never question every single piece of media you see or hear you’re gonna be fed a lot of false news. If you’re able to analyze it and see through the false facts you will be able to find the truth through all the fake news. Being able to also create media is a good skill to have as you can help contribute to the media surrounding a subject that interests you.
This fact is just one of the reasons that you must be able to analyze media and attempt to see through the false facts. These big corporations are only trying to get your money and will tell you almost anything in an attempt to get you to buy their products. If a big corporation is offered a large sum of money to talk or not talk about something then chances are they will take the money and do whatever is asked of them. You should always try to take any news you hear from media owned by big corporations with a grain of salt and do your own research when the facts don’t add up.
This is a very true statement as there are all kinds of beautiful forms of media be it music or videos of nature or funny cat videos. Everywhere you look you can see awesome and creative forms of media made by all kinds of different people. Even though there are all kinds of beautiful media there are also all kinds of dangerous forms of media like fake news and hateful media. A big thing in politics right now are “alternative facts” which are practically just fake news. These are dangerous as some people actually believe this propaganda giving power to these liars.
This statement is very significant in today’s world as so much news is about different races and religions that some points of view will be left out. Some news outlets claim to be completely objective but it is impossible, there will always be at least one point of view left out. Even if all of the points of view are covered the person covering them could be biased.
All in all, these points all have something to do with our day to day lives. There are so many advertisements we see every day and so many of them are paid for by big companies that only want you to buy their product and not know about the bad things about their products.
- The goal of most corporations, including those that own media, is to make money above anything else
This fact is just one of the reasons that you must be able to analyze media and attempt to see through the false facts. These big corporations are only trying to get your money and will tell you almost anything in an attempt to get you to buy their products. If a big corporation is offered a large sum of money to talk or not talk about something then chances are they will take the money and do whatever is asked of them. You should always try to take any news you hear from media owned by big corporations with a grain of salt and do your own research when the facts don’t add up.
- Media is very powerful and can be beautiful but also dangerous
This is a very true statement as there are all kinds of beautiful forms of media be it music or videos of nature or funny cat videos. Everywhere you look you can see awesome and creative forms of media made by all kinds of different people. Even though there are all kinds of beautiful media there are also all kinds of dangerous forms of media like fake news and hateful media. A big thing in politics right now are “alternative facts” which are practically just fake news. These are dangerous as some people actually believe this propaganda giving power to these liars.
- No media message is objective; there is always a point of view and someone (or group) is left out
This statement is very significant in today’s world as so much news is about different races and religions that some points of view will be left out. Some news outlets claim to be completely objective but it is impossible, there will always be at least one point of view left out. Even if all of the points of view are covered the person covering them could be biased.
All in all, these points all have something to do with our day to day lives. There are so many advertisements we see every day and so many of them are paid for by big companies that only want you to buy their product and not know about the bad things about their products.
Friday, January 20, 2017
work reflections
I unfortunately fell behind on my journalism projects and I am doing this assignment two months late and at the end of my semester in the class, what this does mean though is I will be able to explain what I (and Dylan) accomplished over the course of the course (pun intended). I was assigned to Web and Layout Design with Dylan and Cassidy, but Cassidy worked more on the social media aspect of it while Dylan and I took care of the Talon as if it were a child. I’m not going to lie the Talon was a mess when we started the class, I sincerely hope that we get a better mark than the dummies who ran it last year because the Talon is looking pretty sharp there now.
Our first task was changing the background to something a little more eye catching, after a couple failed attempts we finally managed to get a background to our liking. Next we rearranged the layout of the Talon a bit, trying to eliminate some of the clutter along the sidebar, with success. Over the course of the semester we worked alongside Cassidy to upload pictures to Google Photos and upload an album of the week, which we did really good at until we sort of forgot about it and left the remembrance day album up for a month. Our biggest task was completely changing the design layout of the Talon. At first we tried to find some cool free ones online but they would either not work right or have a tag on the bottom that we could not remove or leave there. At last we decided on a template found in the regular options of blogger. We rarely actually used the test blog to test any of our attempts but once we got the hang of it we finally managed to successfully change the template of the Talon. For the rest of the semester we deleted old links that no longer worked on old posts, there were a lot of dead links.
Our job as Web and Layout Designers may have completely changed the face of the Talon but it was the hard work of all the other members of Journalism 120 that filled the Talon with all the latest news at Blackville School. There was the news team that simply reported on what was happening in and around BHS. They regularly updated the Talon and kept our readers well informed. The entertainment and people’s picks branches of the news team gave us some of the more light hearted news that kept the Talon fun and enjoyable. The sports team gave us our rosters of the high school sports teams with detailed profiles for each player, using an extremely handsome picture of number 18 on the boys hockey team (in case you didn’t know I’m number 18). The podcasting team would, well to be brutally honest I’m not 100% sure what it is that the podcasting team did, what I think they did was talk about the news that had been posted on the Talon throughout the week. The kids corner team kept the young lads involved with all kinds of coloring contests and other fun activities. The video announcements team apparently posted daily video announcements but I truthfully have never seen one of their videos so I can’t comment too much on their work. Last but certainly not least is the yearbook team that is doing God’s work making an amazing yearbook for our grad class, 5 out of 5 stars for them.
All in all I actually learned some useful information in this class, not to be rude or mean but I didn’t come into this course with high expectations. I learned all kinds of things about how to run a blog and learned about how to be a good journalist. I feel that I have learned some skills that I may actually use sometime throughout my career, which is more than I can say about some of the other courses I took this semester. I feel that Dylan and I accomplished the task that we were given and left next year’s journalism class with big shoes to fill.
Here’s the hyperlink for another school’s news website that in my opinion isn’t near as nice.
Our first task was changing the background to something a little more eye catching, after a couple failed attempts we finally managed to get a background to our liking. Next we rearranged the layout of the Talon a bit, trying to eliminate some of the clutter along the sidebar, with success. Over the course of the semester we worked alongside Cassidy to upload pictures to Google Photos and upload an album of the week, which we did really good at until we sort of forgot about it and left the remembrance day album up for a month. Our biggest task was completely changing the design layout of the Talon. At first we tried to find some cool free ones online but they would either not work right or have a tag on the bottom that we could not remove or leave there. At last we decided on a template found in the regular options of blogger. We rarely actually used the test blog to test any of our attempts but once we got the hang of it we finally managed to successfully change the template of the Talon. For the rest of the semester we deleted old links that no longer worked on old posts, there were a lot of dead links.
Our job as Web and Layout Designers may have completely changed the face of the Talon but it was the hard work of all the other members of Journalism 120 that filled the Talon with all the latest news at Blackville School. There was the news team that simply reported on what was happening in and around BHS. They regularly updated the Talon and kept our readers well informed. The entertainment and people’s picks branches of the news team gave us some of the more light hearted news that kept the Talon fun and enjoyable. The sports team gave us our rosters of the high school sports teams with detailed profiles for each player, using an extremely handsome picture of number 18 on the boys hockey team (in case you didn’t know I’m number 18). The podcasting team would, well to be brutally honest I’m not 100% sure what it is that the podcasting team did, what I think they did was talk about the news that had been posted on the Talon throughout the week. The kids corner team kept the young lads involved with all kinds of coloring contests and other fun activities. The video announcements team apparently posted daily video announcements but I truthfully have never seen one of their videos so I can’t comment too much on their work. Last but certainly not least is the yearbook team that is doing God’s work making an amazing yearbook for our grad class, 5 out of 5 stars for them.
All in all I actually learned some useful information in this class, not to be rude or mean but I didn’t come into this course with high expectations. I learned all kinds of things about how to run a blog and learned about how to be a good journalist. I feel that I have learned some skills that I may actually use sometime throughout my career, which is more than I can say about some of the other courses I took this semester. I feel that Dylan and I accomplished the task that we were given and left next year’s journalism class with big shoes to fill.
Here’s the hyperlink for another school’s news website that in my opinion isn’t near as nice.
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