Feed back

“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

Accounts

Outgoings

500 copies from newspaperclub £500 inc VAT
postage for first three orders £11.40

Income

advert Junction £350
advert Lincoln £100
advert OCR £100

Reigate 120 copies £60
Islington 40 copies £20
Netherhall 30 copies £15

free samples and copies for group members, moderator etc 50

What could be learned from the experience?

This has been interesting as it chucked us into the deep end as we had not done anything like this, it was good creating an article that people would actually read then use for their own exam. So what I've learned as that it's always a good idea to think outside of your own personal creative box and to try something new and you may create something intereting. It also gives us another experience to working to a deadline and how decision can also be brutal and not always in your favor.

How pleased are you with your contributions and how effectively did you work within your role?

I am not very pleased with my contribution as I didn't manage to get my article in on time, so it was not published in the newspaper. I think this happened because I chose an article which was a bit too advance for my level of knowledge, as the Internet is a world wide subject so their are many opinions and statistics. I think there are some things I could have done better. I enjoyed researching information but I think I spent far too much time reading rather than putting it down on paper. If I were to do this again I would chose an easier subject, maybe rather than take on a whole subject break it down as focus in on a small part. I did enjoy doing a written article rather than another video as I think we were getting too comfortable with editing and shooting etc.

How does it look?

We had to have the ame layout throughout to give it a neat look so the front page isn't much different to the rest so is quite basic. At the top we have the title 'MEDIA ME' it is in a standard font with 'MEDIA' in bold and 'ME' normal, then to the right is our CRAM logo. There are three collumns, the first with information of what pages have what articles, then the other two is the editorial by Alex W. Their are various boxes, one has all the names of our the students in our class he helped create it and the others are logos of people who helped produce the news paper. The rest of the pages are set out in a similar way with the excepotion of the London Underground map in the centrefold.

First Impressions

I think the News Paper came out well as we actually managed to finish it in time, it isn't as colorful as we first imagined but does look offcial and smart. It is a shame it doesn't stand out more as we paid extra for the use of color, this also the same for imagery. The use of these two could have given the articles a more eye catching look and filled up the space inbetween the collumns.

Project Plan - Past and Future

Week 1:
We were grouped into Blue Red and Yellow with a quality control team and a team leader who overlooked the project and had meetings with people outside of college. The individual groups worked together to create thier own individual articles or worked in a pair. I chose an article on The future of the internet, I wanted a counter arguement to the 'The internet is the most greatest single development in the history of human communication', the arguement is not that it is great or not great but the side effects, for example internet addiction and lack of privacy.


Week 2:
I've started writing my article but as this article is on a world wide subject I need to do a lot of research as to get the information correct,

Week 3:
This week I will need to show my article, its progression and what the editors like and dislike then make the appropriate changes.

Action plan

I need to this week finish the final changes on my article and make sure it is suitable for the revision style newspaper with references to the exam.

Put question to students which refer to my article.

For example

Do you learn better better with visual internet sites such as youtube, or sites such as wikipedia which is written?

1st draft

Does the internet have or future or will it ultimately end in demise?

Since the internets birth in 1969, originally used for the U.S. Department of Defenses Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) when they used a small network of high-speed supercomputers called ARPNET which could withstand military attack, the main purpose being researchers and scientists sharing computer facilities but ultimately ended in news and personal messages. Through out the 70’s and 80’s ARPNET was accommodating for a wider range of computers, which finally in 1989 was incorporated into the National Science Foundations own computer network becoming the Internet.

On internetworldstats.com in December 31 2000 there were 360,985,492 internet users world wide and in 2009 the estimate was around 6,767,805,208 with a 380.3% increase. This increase in popularity could be blamed on the creation of the World Wide Web (WWW) which we knows as web sites, containing pages of text and graphics. These web sites became educational, personal and commercial. The best examples and the most popular are YouTube and Facebook. Facebook today has over 400 million active users according to Facebook statistics, while YouTube has 100 million viewers with 14.8 billion online videos in January 2009.

As the Internet grows so does the wealth of information being sent and received grows as well. Facebook users openly supply their personal information to exhibit on their profile, Name, Age and their current location to your relationship status and religious views which all can be seen without the privacy tools. Facebook has over 3 billions photos uploaded to the site each month, this content is covered by intellectual property rights which when uploaded you give them permission to use your content. This agreement ends when you delete your picture or your account but if the picture has been shared with others and they have not deleted it, it will remain.

Paragraph 3 and 4 - The wealth of information that passes through computers.
How we openly give out personal information for the www to see.
The lack of anonymity and mystery with online users.
How Governments, Businesses and other Agencies utilize the internet to find and share information.

On the other end of the scale, the Internet is place where we can learn, watch and create. With YouTube and other video blogging networks like Vimeo gives the opportunity to broadcast either themselves, or other sorts of video media such as music videos or webcam channels. Another video subject is lessons and tutorials from Photoshop on how to stencil a picture or Aftereffects. This can have both positive and negative effects. Researching information on YouTube can be incredibly helpful tool for example Media and Everyday life a video by David Gauntlet can help a Media Student to understand the use of media in the online age. But when does using the internet go too far?

Internet Addiction Disorder, or IAD,


Paragraph 5 and 6 - The positive end of the wealth of information, for example entertainment and education.
How the life of the mind is an important one and the internet can help this, rather than social life and how this can be replaced by online communities.
How this can ultimately lead to addiction on par with alcoholism, drug abuse, gambling and eating disorders.
The deterioration of social, academic, financial and occupational life.

Paragraph 7 - Weigh up pros and cons. My own opinion. Predict the future of the internet.

2nd draft

Does the internet have or future or will it ultimately end in demise?

Since the internets birth in 1969, originally used for the U.S. Department of Defences Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) when they used a small network of high-speed supercomputers called ARPNET which could withstand military attack, the main purpose being researchers and scientists sharing computer facilities but ultimately ended in news and personal messages. Through out the 70’s and 80’s ARPNET was accommodating for a wider range of computers, which finally in 1989 was incorporated into the National Science Foundations own computer network becoming the Internet.

On internetworldstats.com in December 31 2000 there were 360,985,492 internet users world wide and in 2009 the estimate was around 6,767,805,208 with a 380.3% increase. This increase in popularity could be blamed on the creation of the World Wide Web (WWW) which we knows as web sites, containing pages of text and graphics. These web sites became educational, personal and commercial. The best examples and the most popular are Youtube and Facebook. Facebook today has over 400 million active users according to Facebook statistics, while Youtube has 100 million viewers with 14.8 billion online videos in January 2009.

As the Internet grows so does the wealth of information being sent and received grows as well. Facebook users openly supply their personal information to exhibit on their profile, Name, Age and their current location to your relationship status and religious views which all can be seen without the privacy tools. Facebook has over 3 billions photos uploaded to the site each month, this content is covered by intellectual property rights which when uploaded you give them permission to use your content. This agreement ends when you delete your picture or your account but if the picture has been shared with others and they have not deleted it, it will remain.

Paragraph 3 and 4 - The wealth of information that passes through computers.
How we openly give out personal information for the www to see.
The lack of anonymity and mystery with online users.
How Governments, Businesses and other Agencies utilise the internet to find and share information.

On the other end of the scale, the Internet is place where we can learn, watch and create. With Youtube and other video blogging networks like Vimeo gives the opportunity to broadcast either themselves, or other sorts of video media, onto the internet. Not only can people post their own media, but they can search for virtually anything, from music videos to lessons on how to put makeup on a certain way, or a video clip from a TV show. With these capabilities just a mouse clip away, youtube can keep someone entertained for hours. This can have positive and negative effects. When looking for useful information youtube can be incredibly helpful; however, inappropriate material can appear just like in any other search engine. Caution must be used with younger children on this site, but this isn’t anything new to parents.

Paragraph 5 and 6 - The positive end of the wealth of information, for example entertainment and education.
How the life of the mind is an important one and the internet can help this, rather than social life and how this can be replaced by online communities.
How this can ultimately lead to addiction on par with alcoholism, drug abuse, gambling and eating disorders.
The deterioration of social, academic, financial and occupational life.

Paragraph 7 - Weigh up pros and cons. My own opinion. Predict the future of the internet.

Article History of the Internet

"If we could look in on the future at say, the year 2000, would we
see a unity, a federation, or a fragmentation? That is: would we see a
single multi-purpose network encompassing all applications and serving
everyone? Or a more or less coherent system of intercommunicating
networks? Or an incoherent assortment of isolated noncommunicating
networks... The middle alternative--the more or less coherent network
of networks-- appears to have a fairly high probability and also to be
desirable..."  [Licklider and Vezza 1978, p. 1342]

FROM ARPANET TO INTERNET

An "internet" is a connected set of networks, such as those using
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP). When
used in conjunction, this suite of protocols is referred to as TCP/IP.
"The Internet" usually refers to the connected TCP/IP internets.
Networks based on other systems, such as OSI might also be considered
internets and part of the Internet. Often this definition is expanded
to include all the other networks which have connections to the
Internet, such as BITNET, Janet and Usenet.

Action plan.

By wednesday I plan to have two articles which are appropriate to my article which I can use quotes from. I also want to have read my feedback and use it to make my article better with the proposed changes and feedback.

Questions to think about?

Do we know our audiences?
National distribution - not just from Long Road or Cambridge all over England.
A2 Media Students (OCR)
16 - 19 years olds
Targeting a more media savvy student, those who want to go into the media industry.
Male or Female? As there are more males than females in our class we may go for a more male feeling.
Differentiation - Not everyone learns in the same way or at the same speed.

Do we know what they want from a study guide?
Relevance - A wide range of contemporary and interesting examples.
Not a revision text book as that could be a turn off. Mode of address for example not formal or stuffy but slightly more informal.

Do you know how they learn?
Explanations. Diagrams. Visuals. Re writing information in your own words. Online links. Practical work. Games. Motivation.

Do you know what the examiner wants?

Do you know what your client wants?

How can we ensure we 'Hit' the expectations or our audience, our client and examiner?

2/3/10 Team Meeting

Myself and Dave were not present but Hayden and Loz were.

I have got the information of Loz to show their meeting -
They started the meeting by coming up with what would be put in a newspaper or magazine. They Brainstormed topics to discuss. Hayden bought in a magazine called 'Super Super' a Pop/Emotronic/Other culture magazine, this was to show ideas for an appealing layout.

















Philippa and her team had discussed questions to ask student what they would like in their magazine so they could revise for their A2 media exam. Loz told Philippas team we would also think of some questions and get back to her.

Team Leader Meeting

The team leaders of the three groups had a meeting, they chose the people they would like to be in their team. Dave, Hayden and myself were chosen by Loz. I believe he chose us as he wanted a more creative team for example visuals. A good idea Loz thought of a good idea of a comic strip to help share information with the reader.

Sam is another team leader, he chose Matt L, Ash and Tim. Philippa is the the third team leader, she chose Alie and James.

Groups

Liason - Alexander Whitcombe

Quality Control:
Evindence - Tara Cox
Reflection - Mike Shaw
Schedule - Kirk Kemp

Production Teams

Red Team:
Red Leader - Laurence Smith
Red One - David Pinchen
Red Two - Hayden Martin
Red Three - Matthew Hornby

Blue Team:
Blue Leader - Philippa Price
Blue One - Joe Robinson
Blue Two - Natalie Nicoll
Blue Three - James Walker

Gold Team:
Gold Leader - Sam Chappell-Winnington
Gold One - Tim Hodson
Gold Two - Matt Leonowicz
Gold Three - Ashley Atherton

Extended Project

This project is creating a newspaper for advice and information on the A2 OCR Media Studies.

Our Client is Jenny Grahame at the English and Media Centre.