I’ve been back from the UK for about three weeks and I’ve just finished marking the project work my City University students completed last (UK) semester.
I’m actually quite proud of them. We had about 11 weeks to get our heads around a totally new (to them) topic and to learn the rudimentaries of journalistic writing in a web environment.
The paper they did is called “WEEM” – Writing and Editing for Electronic Media. So not only did they have to read up on convergence and new media journalism, they had to learn to write in an online environment and then to rustle up some half-decent HTML so that their projects could sit on the web.
Like all student work, this is a bit eneven. Some bits are better than others. But, overall I think they’ve done a very good job.
Some interesting topics were covered and I think it’s worth sharing.
There’s no way for you to leave comments on the project pages unfortunately; it’s all rather static. However, feel free to comment here on the work as a whole, or on individual projects. I have let the class know that this link is here and that they should come back now and again to see who’s commented.
I would appreciate if you keep the commentary positive. All dribblejaws comments will be swiftly deleted, so don’t bother.
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