Well, my brain is somewhat crammed with information from this week. I've learned the basics of online journalism to the definitions of the "internet" and "world wide web" and can now even create my own html script. To apply some of what we discussed in class this week --
This site itself lives in the world wide web, which is a component of the overall Internet. Journalists today must be able to understand how the Internet works and be able use blog sites, such as this one. Blogs can be credible, although they often present a clear opinion, or bias.
This page is composed using hypertext markup language--html.
html is composed of the and the. Within html, there are codes for color, inserting images, lists, bold or italics, and on. This text allows us to create any kind of web page. Cascading style sheet makes this process much easier.
This is the basics of what we learned this week, but the general knowledge will be useful in my own blog, and in the future when (as a journalist) I will have to publish the news --in multiple forms-- on the internet!
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It's fascinating that we will have to use new innovative ways to be journalists. Internet is a first step away from traditional ways or reporting and communicating news. It's more immediate. What will be next?
ReplyDeleteAhhh my brain is crammed with all of this information as well! All of these different abbreviations and their meanings; it's going to be hard trying to not mix them up.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree with you more on how journalists today must understand how the internet works. I mean internet how now evolved into a medium where we get most of our information from. As journalists, we are one of those people getting information from the internet and actually posting the information on the internet, and I do believe we'll be better journalists if we can truly understand how the internet works.
Great post! See you Tuesday!
The key here (and the main objective of this class) is to get you familiar and comfortable with the technology, not necessarily proficient with it. It's a fine line, but I think we can make it work. Please let me know how it's working and we can adjust along the way.
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