Minute Papers
At the end of each class, this question was asked; What was the most significant thing you learned during this session?
Week 4
Learning the values, importance and reasons for ethics in journalism and the consequences if the ethics weren’t followed, this will help ensure that I can be successful in my career as proper conduct will form my reputation. Writing structure for different platforms gave insight into the importance of producing concise and accurate information, this will be particularly helpful as journalism is expanding into the digital sphere as well as spreading on social media. Being able to construct reports and adapt them to different platforms will help with my need to be flexible within the industry.
Week 5
Being able to define what a career is was helpful as it helped put goals and aims into a long term lens. Being able to identify skills as well as develop them and use them effectively in order to become successful in my career. This class was helpful in making me realise that I need to become more confident in using different digital platforms, when I previously thought I could avoid the technical side.
Week 9
With week nine focusing on our digital footprints, I realised how important it is to clean up how you are viewed online as this helps form people's first opinions on you and if you would be a good fit to their workplace. Managing our digital footprint and online professionalism is important as employers will want to do their own research on you.
My take:
These tutorials were particularly helpful in making me realise how much more work I need to put into my education, developing my skills and image if I want to be a Sports Media professional.