Showing posts with label extended project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extended project. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
feedback after distribution
jenny graham emailed us feedback we've recieved after the newspaper has been distributed.
“We've just put the underground
map on the wall and are fighting about who is on the coolest line
(that's teachers not students by the way!)
Initial reaction is that we can't wait to use it in the classroom -
could be a few more bigger images in there...
We'll use it with students next week (weds) and email you some more
feedback”
Mary Berrisford, Islington
“MediaMe looks great. Works really well with the colour, etc. Mega
achievement.”
Jenny Grahame
final accounts and costs of newspaper
Accounts
Outgoings
500 copies from newspaperclub £500 inc VAT
postage for first three orders £11.40
Income
advert Junction £350
advert Lincoln
advert OCR
Reigate 120 copies £60
Islington 40 copies £20
Netherhall 30 copies £15
free samples and copies for group members, moderator etc 50
still to sell 260 copies
to be advertised by jenny on OCR teachers site this week.
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.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
feedback from client - jenny graham
the liason (alex) took a copy of our final drafts and emailed them to jenny graham. she replied with individual feedback for everyone. this is what she said about my article.
nice, well informed piece, with lots of good argument. could you give a couple more examples of why wikipedia might be particulary useful in researching a media topic. the potnetial mis-use of wikipedia.
she also said that a bit was missing but that was my own stupid fault and was easily corrected by putting it back in. it was only a sentence. i'm happy to hear that she likes my article though. the feedback i got last time when i showed her my 2nd draft wasn't great. but her feedback has helped me to further my article and to make it the best it can be.
nice, well informed piece, with lots of good argument. could you give a couple more examples of why wikipedia might be particulary useful in researching a media topic. the potnetial mis-use of wikipedia.
she also said that a bit was missing but that was my own stupid fault and was easily corrected by putting it back in. it was only a sentence. i'm happy to hear that she likes my article though. the feedback i got last time when i showed her my 2nd draft wasn't great. but her feedback has helped me to further my article and to make it the best it can be.
final style sheet
when we had to design the final style sheet, we looked at the articles we had discussed about and talked about the aspects we liked and whyn they worked. then we had a vote. for instance, we looked at the title of one of the articles. everyone thought that the font was great, it standed out and it captured your attention, but it wasn't big enough. so we decided on a size. if it wasn't that simple we came up with a compromize. we worked quickly through this and had some good points to say about the final style sheet. it seemed that everyone was really interested in making this project the best.
minutes of meetings
people invlolved: james, hayden, ash, kirk
in a group discussed all the class' template/style sheets. we went through them individually pointing out how we felt and why that was. during the meeting i felt that the class had made progress because we all listened to what everyone had to say and we didn't interrupt or anything. each aspect that we didnt agree with we aired, these were:
-The poor use of text wrapping
- the boring text- unproffesional imagery
- lack of header and footers
- better placement of by-lines and box-outs, in order to present a better, less confusing read - we might border them
- nicer wrapping and smaller text for the quotation pull-outs
-mainly just a lack of professional look
this discussion went very quickly as we picked out the negatives really quickly - this may have been as we only had one lesson to work on the previews and rushed ourselves to get the text on there as soon as possible for examples.we;re now about to work on our new style-sheet in Pages. we've decided to drop the possibility of using InDesign as none of us know exactly how to use it well. after all, Pages is perfectly adequate - it centre images well, has good fonts, masking capabilities and wrapping options - all important for our tabloid design.
in a group discussed all the class' template/style sheets. we went through them individually pointing out how we felt and why that was. during the meeting i felt that the class had made progress because we all listened to what everyone had to say and we didn't interrupt or anything. each aspect that we didnt agree with we aired, these were:
-The poor use of text wrapping
- the boring text- unproffesional imagery
- lack of header and footers
- better placement of by-lines and box-outs, in order to present a better, less confusing read - we might border them
- nicer wrapping and smaller text for the quotation pull-outs
-mainly just a lack of professional look
this discussion went very quickly as we picked out the negatives really quickly - this may have been as we only had one lesson to work on the previews and rushed ourselves to get the text on there as soon as possible for examples.we;re now about to work on our new style-sheet in Pages. we've decided to drop the possibility of using InDesign as none of us know exactly how to use it well. after all, Pages is perfectly adequate - it centre images well, has good fonts, masking capabilities and wrapping options - all important for our tabloid design.
thursdays lesson
today when we got in we got into our groups and we were given all 3 of the groups articles, including our own. we had to write on it the pro's and con's for each article. the things we liked, the things that didn't work etc. after that the person from the group that designed the article (or had the most to say about it) got together seperatly and finalized a style sheet. i was the member of my group that went to talk about my views on the articles. i met up with hayden, ash and kirk. kirk wanted to hear what we had to say. we went through each of the articles deciding what we liked and such. we then decided what each of the things should be for the final article style sheet. what i mean is we decided the fonts, sizes, positions, column amounts. everything. then i went off and made a template that everyone could use for their articles. it was a good lesson because we got a lot of work done. and we were all happy with the final style sheet as well.
wednesdays lesson
today we were all given the longest in length article and we were asked to transfer it into pages and put it into an article format. it had to be on A3 and we had to include all the things that have told us about and such. then after we did that all the groups would come round and decide which aspects of each style we all liked the best. each group made an article on pages. i was the person out of my group to make the article. i decided the fonts and sizes and such that i thought looked good. then the rest of my group took the information and made the style sheet that would have been used for my article. i didn't put too much thought into it because i knew that it wasn't final or anything. i chose fonts and sizes that i thought looked presentable and professioanl. the layout i chose for the same reasons really, and that it looked good. we had printing issues so this took longer than expected. tomorrow we will come together and decided which ideas we like. then we are going to design the final style sheet.
feedback from student
this was feedback i got from my first draft of my article. the feedback i got from this was good because it showed me what i needed to work on more and it also showed me if my article was good enough. after the feedback i knew that the only issues were with missing things out or not using references.
feedback from student
a draft of my article was given to a student to look over and give feedback. he didn't know me but he was told what my article needed to include and such.
feedback from student about my article
after doing one of my early drafts, i gave it to one of my classmates to look over and give me some feedback. most of what he said was positive but he also gave me some things to work on and some things to think about which really helped.
he told me that my intro was great because it sounded interesting and made you want to read on. he also said that he thought that i should use more data to back my argument up with. he said on the whole it's a good article but just has a bit of tweaking that needs doing.
he told me that my intro was great because it sounded interesting and made you want to read on. he also said that he thought that i should use more data to back my argument up with. he said on the whole it's a good article but just has a bit of tweaking that needs doing.
how questionaire can help my article?
the answers given in the questionaire were very helpful. they showed my that most people only use wikipedia for research when online. it also showed me that most of peoples time online is spent socializing and not for work at all. i'm going to use some of this information in my article as a response.
response to questionaire
after doing the questionaire, my group came together and we put all of our information together and i wrote it all up on one sheet so that the data was all together and easily accessible. the answers we got were interesting and the information we got could certainly help us in our articles as well.
these were our responses: (15 people were used)
1a) when did you last access the internet?
8 people said yesturday
7 people said today
that means that people our age use the internet almost everday. not one persons answers were later than the previous day.
1b) what did you do when you were last online?
8 people were on social networking sites
2 people were downloading music illegally
1 person was playing games online
3 people were doing research for college work
1 person checked there emails
after looking at this you can see that a large proportion of the people questioned said they were on a social networking site.
2) which website did you last visit? why?
9 people said they were on facebook checking notifications and talking to friends
1 person went on hsbc to check there bank account
1 person looked something up on google
1 person watched a video on youtube
2 people went on wikipedia to look something up that was college related
1 person went on hotmail to check emails
again, most people are going on facebook and spending a lot of time talking to friends. one person i talked to said that they went on facebook to see what was going on. is facebook the new mobile phone?
3) when was the last time you used a researching website?
4 people said a month ago
2 people said a few weeks ago
1 person said 2 weeks ago
2 people said last week
2 people said today
1 person said last year
2 people said doesn't remember
1 person said yesturday
everyone i talked to said that the only regular researching website they use is wikipedia. this information will help me in my article
4) do you use other regular researching websites? is so which ones?
6 people just said wikipedia
7 people said wikipedia and they use google search and click on websites
2 people said wikipedia and imdb
this shows me that wikipedia is the most used researching website used and it also shows me that even if people use other sites by going through google, they don't remember the site names.
5a) do you have a social networking site?
11 people said just facebook
1 person said facebook and myspace
2 people said facebook and twitter
1 person doesn't have a social netorking site
people i asked said that they used to have bebo and myspace but they either deleted them or didn't use them anymore. i have a bebo and a myspace but the reason why i haven't deleted them is because i can't remember the username and passwords and such.
5b) how often do you update your facebook status?
4 people said once a day
1 person said 5 times a day
1 person said 3 times a day
2 people said 3 times a week
2 people said 2 times a week
3 people don't update it
2 people said they barely updated it
6) have you ever uploaded videos online? how old were you when you first made your account?
14 people said yes
1 person said no
10 people said that they were 16 and it was due to college
2 people said they were 12
1 person said they were 15
1 person said they were 14
these were our responses: (15 people were used)
1a) when did you last access the internet?
8 people said yesturday
7 people said today
that means that people our age use the internet almost everday. not one persons answers were later than the previous day.
1b) what did you do when you were last online?
8 people were on social networking sites
2 people were downloading music illegally
1 person was playing games online
3 people were doing research for college work
1 person checked there emails
after looking at this you can see that a large proportion of the people questioned said they were on a social networking site.
2) which website did you last visit? why?
9 people said they were on facebook checking notifications and talking to friends
1 person went on hsbc to check there bank account
1 person looked something up on google
1 person watched a video on youtube
2 people went on wikipedia to look something up that was college related
1 person went on hotmail to check emails
again, most people are going on facebook and spending a lot of time talking to friends. one person i talked to said that they went on facebook to see what was going on. is facebook the new mobile phone?
3) when was the last time you used a researching website?
4 people said a month ago
2 people said a few weeks ago
1 person said 2 weeks ago
2 people said last week
2 people said today
1 person said last year
2 people said doesn't remember
1 person said yesturday
everyone i talked to said that the only regular researching website they use is wikipedia. this information will help me in my article
4) do you use other regular researching websites? is so which ones?
6 people just said wikipedia
7 people said wikipedia and they use google search and click on websites
2 people said wikipedia and imdb
this shows me that wikipedia is the most used researching website used and it also shows me that even if people use other sites by going through google, they don't remember the site names.
5a) do you have a social networking site?
11 people said just facebook
1 person said facebook and myspace
2 people said facebook and twitter
1 person doesn't have a social netorking site
people i asked said that they used to have bebo and myspace but they either deleted them or didn't use them anymore. i have a bebo and a myspace but the reason why i haven't deleted them is because i can't remember the username and passwords and such.
5b) how often do you update your facebook status?
4 people said once a day
1 person said 5 times a day
1 person said 3 times a day
2 people said 3 times a week
2 people said 2 times a week
3 people don't update it
2 people said they barely updated it
6) have you ever uploaded videos online? how old were you when you first made your account?
14 people said yes
1 person said no
10 people said that they were 16 and it was due to college
2 people said they were 12
1 person said they were 15
1 person said they were 14
questionaires
in order to get some more collective data that we can all use to help our individual articles, in our groups we made a questionaire that we're going to ask a group of students. this information we can use as references in our articles. my article is about wikipedia but other members of my group are doing things on social netowkring sites etc. the questions we came up with were:
when was the last time you accessed the internet?
what did you do when you were online?
what website did you last visit?
why?
when was the last time you used a research website such as wikipedia?
what did you research on the internet?
do you use other websites regulary for research? if so which ones?
do you have a social networking page? which ones?
if you have facebook, how often do you update you status?
have you ever uploaded videos to youtuve/vimeo?
how old were you when you created your account?
when was the last time you accessed the internet?
what did you do when you were online?
what website did you last visit?
why?
when was the last time you used a research website such as wikipedia?
what did you research on the internet?
do you use other websites regulary for research? if so which ones?
do you have a social networking page? which ones?
if you have facebook, how often do you update you status?
have you ever uploaded videos to youtuve/vimeo?
how old were you when you created your account?
session with dave
dave came in again today and gave us some more advice on our newspaper. we told him where we were up to on the project which was creating the content. he told us that the next thing to think about was the appearence. he said that it wasn't as simple as where we would put pictures or what font the text would be in. in magazines and newspapers there are subtle differences that we readers don't notice. he said that there are usually up to 3 different fonts on a page. he also listed out other things we need to think about.
title - name of article
strapline - sentnece under title giving more information
cloumn amount - amount of columns per page
intro - short paragraph summerizing the article
crosshead - subheadings before paragraphs
pull quotes - quotes taken from article that make you want to read on
images - relate to the topic of the article
captions - text under images explaining what they are
box out - information in a box that isn't part of the article itself
header - text at top of page
footer - text at bottom of page
dave said that every magazine or newspaper has these things and each one has a specific font, font size and colour. these things need to be the same for all the articles for the newspaper. it's called the style sheet. the style of the look of the paper. we need to think about this for our newspaper.
title - name of article
strapline - sentnece under title giving more information
cloumn amount - amount of columns per page
intro - short paragraph summerizing the article
crosshead - subheadings before paragraphs
pull quotes - quotes taken from article that make you want to read on
images - relate to the topic of the article
captions - text under images explaining what they are
box out - information in a box that isn't part of the article itself
header - text at top of page
footer - text at bottom of page
dave said that every magazine or newspaper has these things and each one has a specific font, font size and colour. these things need to be the same for all the articles for the newspaper. it's called the style sheet. the style of the look of the paper. we need to think about this for our newspaper.
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