Monday, 26 April 2010
final newspaper
this is a video of the newspaper that we produced. it includes all of the pages and content that we made and it has the advertisements.
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
evaluation of final newspaper
how well does it meet your original intentions?
looking back at the brief and what we aimed for as a final result i'm pleased with the final paper. the information is presented well and the article structure with the style sheet we used looks professional. the professional look was the most important thing for me. i didn't want people reading it to view it as another student made project. i wanted it to look presentable and profesional, with good useful information that stuidents will use for revision. i think that we all did a great job and it meets my intentions. my only criticism is that the front cover doesn't look as eyecatching. other than that the content is great.
how does it look?
i think it looks really good, the articles i made for example i think look really good. the information is clear and is an easy read, doesn't look too demanding. this would appeal to our audience because from research we did on teenage learning, they don't nessesarily like a lot of writing. i think the front cover doesn't look as vibrant and eye-catching as i'd like. it should be the page that advertises the paper, and it doesn't look as exciting enough. it's okay though, it's not a bad front cover. i just think theres room for improvement of the presentation of the front cover. the article template is good though and the articles all look professional.
how pleased are you with your contributions?
in the end i ended up doing more than i expected for the paper. we were running out of time and there were still a few articles that needed doing referring to the exam questions. i made my orignal article, the article about wikipedia, and was very pleased with it. the presentation looks really good and the flow of the article is good as well. it isn't too demanding either whichn would appeal to our target audience. the other article i made was about the first part of the a2 exam. i had a rough idea what i needed to include but i researched what the exam questions were like and what you needed to include in your answer. i wrote a rough draft and gave it to my teacher to be looked at. there were some improvement but the general structire was good. i made the changes and added some colour to make it more presentable. i really like the final outcome and prefer it to my other article. i like the way that it's clear how it helps you in the exam. i also made a wordsearch to go on the games page.
how efectively did you work in your role and others in theirs?
we all worked well together, though the quality control team weren't very good at letting the other groups know about changes and such. for example, they didn't inform us that they had made a logo or a flat plan. to me, those things were in our right to know as it was a group effort making the paper. there lack of informing us meant we wasted time. i personally worked well, in terms of the content. i could have done more on my blog, but i think the articles i produced fit the biref and look professional. i'm really pleased with the outcome.
what could be learned from this experience?
i learned to work to a tight schedule and i also learned to have several processes of work, not just working to one target. team working was improved but i think that previous projects have had a bigger impact. usually in projects we work to one deadline, finish everything at the same time, with this project we had deadlines for drafts of articles and checkpoints to see if we were working quick enough. it was very time consuming, most of the time i was writing drafts overnight and then bringing them in the next day to receive feedback. it was a hectic schedule but it paid off and the thing i learnt most of all was doing work outside of college really helps when you come back to college. it means you can knuckle down and get feedback.
what has been learned from previous experience?
looking back at the brief and what we aimed for as a final result i'm pleased with the final paper. the information is presented well and the article structure with the style sheet we used looks professional. the professional look was the most important thing for me. i didn't want people reading it to view it as another student made project. i wanted it to look presentable and profesional, with good useful information that stuidents will use for revision. i think that we all did a great job and it meets my intentions. my only criticism is that the front cover doesn't look as eyecatching. other than that the content is great.
how does it look?
i think it looks really good, the articles i made for example i think look really good. the information is clear and is an easy read, doesn't look too demanding. this would appeal to our audience because from research we did on teenage learning, they don't nessesarily like a lot of writing. i think the front cover doesn't look as vibrant and eye-catching as i'd like. it should be the page that advertises the paper, and it doesn't look as exciting enough. it's okay though, it's not a bad front cover. i just think theres room for improvement of the presentation of the front cover. the article template is good though and the articles all look professional.
how pleased are you with your contributions?
in the end i ended up doing more than i expected for the paper. we were running out of time and there were still a few articles that needed doing referring to the exam questions. i made my orignal article, the article about wikipedia, and was very pleased with it. the presentation looks really good and the flow of the article is good as well. it isn't too demanding either whichn would appeal to our target audience. the other article i made was about the first part of the a2 exam. i had a rough idea what i needed to include but i researched what the exam questions were like and what you needed to include in your answer. i wrote a rough draft and gave it to my teacher to be looked at. there were some improvement but the general structire was good. i made the changes and added some colour to make it more presentable. i really like the final outcome and prefer it to my other article. i like the way that it's clear how it helps you in the exam. i also made a wordsearch to go on the games page.
how efectively did you work in your role and others in theirs?
we all worked well together, though the quality control team weren't very good at letting the other groups know about changes and such. for example, they didn't inform us that they had made a logo or a flat plan. to me, those things were in our right to know as it was a group effort making the paper. there lack of informing us meant we wasted time. i personally worked well, in terms of the content. i could have done more on my blog, but i think the articles i produced fit the biref and look professional. i'm really pleased with the outcome.
what could be learned from this experience?
i learned to work to a tight schedule and i also learned to have several processes of work, not just working to one target. team working was improved but i think that previous projects have had a bigger impact. usually in projects we work to one deadline, finish everything at the same time, with this project we had deadlines for drafts of articles and checkpoints to see if we were working quick enough. it was very time consuming, most of the time i was writing drafts overnight and then bringing them in the next day to receive feedback. it was a hectic schedule but it paid off and the thing i learnt most of all was doing work outside of college really helps when you come back to college. it means you can knuckle down and get feedback.
what has been learned from previous experience?
from previous experience i have learnt to be forceful. when we were doing group work for a project i was in charge and my job was to make sure my group were doing the work. i got criticized for not being the leader i needed to be. my group were slacking and doing the work but not to the best of their ability. i then decided to be more forceful in my approach. my group didn't like me as much after that but we got the work done and to a much higher standard than before. this project wasn't like that though because i didn't have a dominant role with in the group. my role was to produce the content. what i decided to do then was knuckle down and do the work to a high standard at home. this was my way of producing good work with out the leader having to be forceful.
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