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Dear Readers of the COMM 2320 Web Site, Spring 2008 Edition:
Each semester, since Fall of 2006, students of COMM 2230 (Basic Reporting) at East Carolina have put some of their best work for the term in a class web site. This semester the student web editors have been Megan Reavis, Tamarah Ware, Alycia Wendt, Samantha Zaharis from the 8am class and Miriam Kennedy, Steven Mack, John Vaughn, Casey Savio from the 11am class. Megan and Jamie were the acting photo editors.
This semester, each student did a classmate profile on one of their fellow students. This gave students an opportunity to get to know one another, and stimulate their communication in our simulated newsroom. The class also recorded a 45 second Super Bowl commercial, some of these will be featured on this site, as well as a Super Primary Tuesday piece of work, where students were asked to respond to the media’s reaction to the primary elections.
The biggest task facing our simulated newsroom was a convergent news report. The class broke up into small groups of 2-4 people and selected a topic of interest to create a Power Point Presentation on. Many of the students decided to do Service Learning projects.
The class was helped by the production team, who did their convergent report on the actual class. They helped each group with their presentations by donating their valuable video and media related skills.
We hope you enjoy this site and welcome any feedback you might have.