''......if you don't ask you will never know"
We all need to keep asking questions, we need to keep supporting each other, have resources available to aid our study; continue to have the ability to approach lecturers, to ultimately aid us in achieving our degree's, in this final, and most important year of our University lives.
This final year for me means proving myself, and aiming for what I know is achievable, it will be hard, and however hard that may be for myself, or for you, or the next person, I will be here to voice all your trouble and strifes to the 'big dogs' at the top.
I have had a terrible second year, and I am here, now, with you guys for the long haul, from sheer perseverance.....and maybe a little bit of stubbornness along the way helped too.
I would love the opportunity to represent you all as a student rep, I have the communication skills and finally the right head on my shoulders do it.
So, if you fancy letting me acheive that little bit more in my third year, then vote me in as one of your student reps.
...and if you don't, thanks for taking the time to read this and make sure that you get yourself to Faye's End of Year Ball....cos you know it makes sense.
GOOD LUCK GUYS.
x
Showing posts with label UCE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UCE. Show all posts
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Monday, 24 September 2007
Smooth Operator?
I am back at University and a third year! It's all go go go from here, in at ten o'clock this morning and already on form, lets just hope that it keeps up to this kind of standard.
My first lecture of Semester 1 2007 is and was Design For Production.
Which I am very excited about getting creative with.
We were quickly introduced because of a new visiting Lecturer, who seems well up for involvement in our projects.
So assignment 1:
PITCH A BRAND
Now assigned to a group of four, a decision was made this morning to launch a new 'brand' within the juice/smoothie bar market.
What we will be looking to do is create a a brand new brand which can fit into 'The Feel Good' company, 'Innocent Smoothies' and the somewhat independant the already growing market of fresh juice drinks and healthy smoothies, such as and niche juice bar 'Zumo'.
We will frist be concentrating on the launch of the brand itself, but will be incorporating the opening of the first 'juice bar' within this new brand here in Birmingham.
We will be looking closely at the already existing market for research, and look at what our competitiors are already offfereing their 'healthy minded' customers, and then hope to adapt their efforts, mix them around abit, splash abit of design work, marketing ideas, logo's, maybe some carrot juice and some big and bold slogans to promote our ideas to the next level.
I will be looking into Marketing our brand, looking at advertising but mainly merchandising will be my main area of research and production.
I hope to produce a variety of merch for the brand, incorporating aspects of everything bold and bright, fresh and clean, not forgetting smooooooooth......
Intial ideas include slogan t-shirts to co-incide with the new 'lets say things on our t-shirts' craze, which would not only be warn by staff but would also be sold as part of the launch of this new juice and smoothie bar.
Fashion, Music, Healthy Eating, '5 -a-day', Bright Colours, Fresh Products, Fair Trade etc will all be aspects that will aid my design for marketing and merchandising this brand and its products.
To be honest, I really wanna open a juice bar now, I just need the funding.............
I will leave you with my favourite smoothie:
oh and one last thing the PJ smoothie website is just rediculously good on all levels, the design, the user interface, the links, the information and the simple and small use of flash. Take a look: http://www.pj-smoothies.co.uk.
SMOOOOOOOTH.
My first lecture of Semester 1 2007 is and was Design For Production.
Which I am very excited about getting creative with.
We were quickly introduced because of a new visiting Lecturer, who seems well up for involvement in our projects.
So assignment 1:
PITCH A BRAND
Now assigned to a group of four, a decision was made this morning to launch a new 'brand' within the juice/smoothie bar market.
What we will be looking to do is create a a brand new brand which can fit into 'The Feel Good' company, 'Innocent Smoothies' and the somewhat independant the already growing market of fresh juice drinks and healthy smoothies, such as and niche juice bar 'Zumo'.
We will frist be concentrating on the launch of the brand itself, but will be incorporating the opening of the first 'juice bar' within this new brand here in Birmingham.
We will be looking closely at the already existing market for research, and look at what our competitiors are already offfereing their 'healthy minded' customers, and then hope to adapt their efforts, mix them around abit, splash abit of design work, marketing ideas, logo's, maybe some carrot juice and some big and bold slogans to promote our ideas to the next level.
I will be looking into Marketing our brand, looking at advertising but mainly merchandising will be my main area of research and production.
I hope to produce a variety of merch for the brand, incorporating aspects of everything bold and bright, fresh and clean, not forgetting smooooooooth......
Intial ideas include slogan t-shirts to co-incide with the new 'lets say things on our t-shirts' craze, which would not only be warn by staff but would also be sold as part of the launch of this new juice and smoothie bar.
Fashion, Music, Healthy Eating, '5 -a-day', Bright Colours, Fresh Products, Fair Trade etc will all be aspects that will aid my design for marketing and merchandising this brand and its products.
To be honest, I really wanna open a juice bar now, I just need the funding.............
I will leave you with my favourite smoothie:
oh and one last thing the PJ smoothie website is just rediculously good on all levels, the design, the user interface, the links, the information and the simple and small use of flash. Take a look: http://www.pj-smoothies.co.uk.
SMOOOOOOOTH.
Friday, 18 May 2007
Reflection
I have found it near impossible to get all of these deadlines out of the way as part of my degree.
Just when I think that I have let myself down again, I have picked myself right back up and at this moment am finishing a professional studies portfolio and applying for work experience with BBC Radio Leeds .
I have got really positive thoughts about this and fingers crossed will land me some work experience close to home in the summer.
Producing a Personal Development Plan for my professional studies module has truely made me reflect on my progression on my media course at UCE, and what have acheived over the past year or so. When it comes down to it...I have developed alot.
The skills that I now possess as a young freelance writer in the media field are for more valuable than they were a year ago.
Its rewarding to actaully look back and realise where you are now and were you have come from.
I mean writing this now, and the use of HTML coding is something that my Online Journalism module has pushed me to do. Well not literally, i wasn't forced or anything.
Just when I think that I have let myself down again, I have picked myself right back up and at this moment am finishing a professional studies portfolio and applying for work experience with BBC Radio Leeds .
I have got really positive thoughts about this and fingers crossed will land me some work experience close to home in the summer.
Producing a Personal Development Plan for my professional studies module has truely made me reflect on my progression on my media course at UCE, and what have acheived over the past year or so. When it comes down to it...I have developed alot.
The skills that I now possess as a young freelance writer in the media field are for more valuable than they were a year ago.
Its rewarding to actaully look back and realise where you are now and were you have come from.
I mean writing this now, and the use of HTML coding is something that my Online Journalism module has pushed me to do. Well not literally, i wasn't forced or anything.
Thursday, 10 May 2007
Interativity- Map of Pride
As part of my Online journalism module we are about to embark, and should have already made a major step towards creating a 'flash' interactive for the UCE newsite .
As part of a group of students I have paired up with Charlotte Dunkley to produce an interactive map of PRIDE07, showing the route of the parade, shops and sponsors involved and external links etc.
I have been in contact for a month or so now, with Pride Event Director David Babbington, and he has provided interesting interview material to use towards our interactive map. I may also approach him for some Video footage for our interactive map, but with his schedule involving preorations for Pride07 I doubt that I will have much luck.
Fingers crossed EH?
As part of a group of students I have paired up with Charlotte Dunkley to produce an interactive map of PRIDE07, showing the route of the parade, shops and sponsors involved and external links etc.
I have been in contact for a month or so now, with Pride Event Director David Babbington, and he has provided interesting interview material to use towards our interactive map. I may also approach him for some Video footage for our interactive map, but with his schedule involving preorations for Pride07 I doubt that I will have much luck.
Fingers crossed EH?
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
Stirring it up
Last week we all had a talk from The Stirrer website owner and editor Adrian Goldberg.
This talk was along the lines of any seminar talk from an 'outside speaker' in the field of media, but I found myself actually being interested in what he had to say, and pleased to see how much Adrian seemed to enage with us as a group of young professional writers. This 'talk' was arranged by our lecturer Paul Bradshaw , who is monitoring our progression as online journalists throughout our 'Online Journalism' year two module.
So......we all went around the classroom and introduced ourselves and our role for the UCE newsite, "Hi..yes, Hi I'm", "I'm sports", "oh yes I have been covering technology" "yes"...when it got to my turn, (thinking nothing at the time) "I am the gay community correspondant, but I also dabble with fashion and music stories", and that was that.
Later on in the seminar we were seperated into groups to brainstorm ideas for our Assignment 2 assessment- to produce somehing news worthy and relevant to Birmingham for our interactive part of the newsite . Which if you did click the link and go visit it, you would realise it is in serious need of updating.
Okay, so what is there at the moment in my opinion is rediculously simple and after seeing examples of interactive pages, such as this interactive database on the Florida Herald Tribune which is a brillaint example of how to use interactivity on line. The page is there to help tackle the issues of child abuse in the American state through the use of online interactivity. There is a particular page that demonstrates the process of filing a complaint of child abuse, which without this interactivity, and just text would not engage the reader at all.
Although very professional the page in the Florida Herald Tribune , this is something that I would be looking to acheive through this interactivity assignment.
After brainstorming within a group of four girls, myself and a fellow 'head strong' member Charlotte Dunckley decided that the most promising and definately news worthy topic would be Birmingham Pride 07. This would allow us to involve an interactive map of this years pride, the route of the parade history of pride- involving an interactive timeline, lots of colourful graphics and images of this years event and previous years.
This is the point where the need to voice our interactive ideas to Paul Bradshaw and Adrain Goldberg -Stirrer.com came about.
With my role being 'gay correspondant' for our news site, I took it upon myself to voice our ideas and pitch what we had in mind for the interactivity pages, so I voice our ideas as the 'gay correspondant', after which Adrian replies, "Well you would know what they have to offer you in the gay community".
GREAT, he thinks I'm a lesbian!!!
So I went along with it and replied to him as if I was a lesbian as not to offend him, or cause an wierd atmosphere. This little episode lasted several minutes in which I was an 'assumed lesbian'. I am not at all offended by this, I just found it comical that he thought I was GAY because I am 'the gay correspondant', then again, if you put it like that, then it does spell itself out.
After the seminar finished I shared this amusement with my classmate, and cooky housemate Roz(Rosalind Brabner), to which she responded with large amounts of laughter......and who was to over hear and get in on the laughs but
Paul Bradshaw ...I find it wonderful I am now the centre of a run in joke with my lecturer regarding my sexuality! HA!
So Paul, and Adrian I suppose (ha ha ha), I leave you this:
P.S Thanks for an entertaining and informing lecture last week.
This talk was along the lines of any seminar talk from an 'outside speaker' in the field of media, but I found myself actually being interested in what he had to say, and pleased to see how much Adrian seemed to enage with us as a group of young professional writers. This 'talk' was arranged by our lecturer Paul Bradshaw , who is monitoring our progression as online journalists throughout our 'Online Journalism' year two module.
So......we all went around the classroom and introduced ourselves and our role for the UCE newsite, "Hi..yes, Hi I'm", "I'm sports", "oh yes I have been covering technology" "yes"...when it got to my turn, (thinking nothing at the time) "I am the gay community correspondant, but I also dabble with fashion and music stories", and that was that.
Later on in the seminar we were seperated into groups to brainstorm ideas for our Assignment 2 assessment- to produce somehing news worthy and relevant to Birmingham for our interactive part of the newsite . Which if you did click the link and go visit it, you would realise it is in serious need of updating.
Okay, so what is there at the moment in my opinion is rediculously simple and after seeing examples of interactive pages, such as this interactive database on the Florida Herald Tribune which is a brillaint example of how to use interactivity on line. The page is there to help tackle the issues of child abuse in the American state through the use of online interactivity. There is a particular page that demonstrates the process of filing a complaint of child abuse, which without this interactivity, and just text would not engage the reader at all.
Although very professional the page in the Florida Herald Tribune , this is something that I would be looking to acheive through this interactivity assignment.
After brainstorming within a group of four girls, myself and a fellow 'head strong' member Charlotte Dunckley decided that the most promising and definately news worthy topic would be Birmingham Pride 07. This would allow us to involve an interactive map of this years pride, the route of the parade history of pride- involving an interactive timeline, lots of colourful graphics and images of this years event and previous years.
This is the point where the need to voice our interactive ideas to Paul Bradshaw and Adrain Goldberg -Stirrer.com came about.
With my role being 'gay correspondant' for our news site, I took it upon myself to voice our ideas and pitch what we had in mind for the interactivity pages, so I voice our ideas as the 'gay correspondant', after which Adrian replies, "Well you would know what they have to offer you in the gay community".
GREAT, he thinks I'm a lesbian!!!
So I went along with it and replied to him as if I was a lesbian as not to offend him, or cause an wierd atmosphere. This little episode lasted several minutes in which I was an 'assumed lesbian'. I am not at all offended by this, I just found it comical that he thought I was GAY because I am 'the gay correspondant', then again, if you put it like that, then it does spell itself out.
After the seminar finished I shared this amusement with my classmate, and cooky housemate Roz(Rosalind Brabner), to which she responded with large amounts of laughter......and who was to over hear and get in on the laughs but
Paul Bradshaw ...I find it wonderful I am now the centre of a run in joke with my lecturer regarding my sexuality! HA!
So Paul, and Adrian I suppose (ha ha ha), I leave you this:
P.S Thanks for an entertaining and informing lecture last week.
Edit Edit Edit
I have finally realised why none of my links are working on ANY of my articles on the UCE news site , so after some painful editing of html- I blame new times roman and their 'curly' speechmarks- I think that I have got it sorted, so click away.
I have now finished my article on Birmingham Blaze football team, which features an interview with the teams manager Garry Brown, and posted it on the UCE Newsite , in the Local section.
I am still researching news worthy stories for the 'gay' section of our news site, and I am waiting on an email interview response from Birmingham, 'Pride 07' events director Dabid Babbington, and hopefully will have another story for the gay section on our newsite.
I have now finished my article on Birmingham Blaze football team, which features an interview with the teams manager Garry Brown, and posted it on the UCE Newsite , in the Local section.
I am still researching news worthy stories for the 'gay' section of our news site, and I am waiting on an email interview response from Birmingham, 'Pride 07' events director Dabid Babbington, and hopefully will have another story for the gay section on our newsite.
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
PRIDE 07 - Gay Community
I have been reseraching and making contacts regarding GAY PRIDE in Birmingham this year.
The BBC regional news website for Birmingham has released a statement from the events director, and is as follows:
The plans for Pride 2007 have been revealed. Events Director David Babbington tells us why he believes this year will be the best ever.
"Birmingham Pride began in 1997 and now, in 2007, it’s time to make some changes. Lots of work has been going on between the gay community and Birmingham City Council to give the event some stability, growth, financial input and make it into an event the community and Birmingham can be proud of.
Sparkle at Pride
I am pleased to say we are now moving together under the umbrella of Birmingham City Council, making the event bigger, better, transparent and putting the community at the heart of what happens. The theme for this year is: “United for Equality”". http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2007/02/09/birmingham_pride_preview_2007_feature.shtml
There is much excitement surrounding this years event, and with it being a decade of this event happening, then I can't think of a better time to do a large coverage piece for this- feature, photographs, and I have contacted David for a possible interview. I am also going to persue further articles surrounding the PRIDE event, and interview gays/lesbians that are students at UCE.
GAY PRIDE 07 is going to be my main article as part of the 'Gay' section that I am covering as part of 'Community' section of the UCE newsite that we are to produce in our Online Journalism Module.
The BBC regional news website for Birmingham has released a statement from the events director, and is as follows:
The plans for Pride 2007 have been revealed. Events Director David Babbington tells us why he believes this year will be the best ever.
"Birmingham Pride began in 1997 and now, in 2007, it’s time to make some changes. Lots of work has been going on between the gay community and Birmingham City Council to give the event some stability, growth, financial input and make it into an event the community and Birmingham can be proud of.
Sparkle at Pride
I am pleased to say we are now moving together under the umbrella of Birmingham City Council, making the event bigger, better, transparent and putting the community at the heart of what happens. The theme for this year is: “United for Equality”". http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2007/02/09/birmingham_pride_preview_2007_feature.shtml
There is much excitement surrounding this years event, and with it being a decade of this event happening, then I can't think of a better time to do a large coverage piece for this- feature, photographs, and I have contacted David for a possible interview. I am also going to persue further articles surrounding the PRIDE event, and interview gays/lesbians that are students at UCE.
GAY PRIDE 07 is going to be my main article as part of the 'Gay' section that I am covering as part of 'Community' section of the UCE newsite that we are to produce in our Online Journalism Module.
Lets Get a Grip = )
As part of my University course at UCE in Birmingham, I am undertaking a module in Online Journalism. As part of this Module, myself and class mates are to create an online news site, research, write and post our own articles.
Our lecturer has had difficulty in commiting us, as a group, to this task.
My first thoughts on the fact that we haven't actually got 'stuck in' are that as a group, we don't communiate very well. Either being in class, or online, nevermind on moodle. Why is this?
Moodle in my opinion has become something to catch up on that lecture that you may have missed or to have 'a-go' at a course, or the people on said course, that in reality you don't hardly put any input into!!!
Maybe all this energy (and I am also speaking about myself here) should be put into making something out of this module- An Online News Site, run by not only students, but up and coming journalists. This is an opportunity that we can't afford to pass up.
In my opinion we need kicking in to touch, we need to learn to embrace the course, and work well as a group, and have that 'fuel' for the news individually, or this news website is never going to get on the way.
We wanted a challenge- so lets step up to it!
Its not just Paul we are letting down, we are letting down ourselves. More specifically, Yourself.
Our lecturer has had difficulty in commiting us, as a group, to this task.
My first thoughts on the fact that we haven't actually got 'stuck in' are that as a group, we don't communiate very well. Either being in class, or online, nevermind on moodle. Why is this?
Moodle in my opinion has become something to catch up on that lecture that you may have missed or to have 'a-go' at a course, or the people on said course, that in reality you don't hardly put any input into!!!
Maybe all this energy (and I am also speaking about myself here) should be put into making something out of this module- An Online News Site, run by not only students, but up and coming journalists. This is an opportunity that we can't afford to pass up.
In my opinion we need kicking in to touch, we need to learn to embrace the course, and work well as a group, and have that 'fuel' for the news individually, or this news website is never going to get on the way.
We wanted a challenge- so lets step up to it!
Its not just Paul we are letting down, we are letting down ourselves. More specifically, Yourself.
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