Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Politial Power of Television


television sets

 This weeks major assignment was for all groups in each tutorial to polish up their News Articles for submisions, in the cases of plagiarism, the tutors need to check before submissions. For my group and I, we did manage to construct our News Article as we slacked at some places.
We also have Final Project: Topic and Instructions.

The part which i personally enjoyed this week
                                                           For the News Article


Monday, September 13, 2010

News article and my contribution.

Here is one of the news articles me and my group used.
Our tutorial group has a topic about the Protection of Information Bill which you can find more elaborated here
The sub-group that I am in in the tutorial will research more on the International coverage that the bill has had. 
As South Africa is a democratic country, freedom of expression should be practised for the citizens to always stay informed.
I as an individual contributed to the group by gathering different international sources to substantiate our argument as a group and have made effort of meeting with the other two members, Nqobile and Femida, to dicuss our article as a group.

Friday, September 3, 2010

WEEK 6 UPDATE-RESEARCH FOCUS

This weeks theme is Research focus that helps us students research for our news portal article.
This is the link given to us this week that elaborates on how to write a News Story

We also were required to do the weekly quiz that had two required readings.
This picture is showing the formula on writing a Successful Formula.




Heres one of the most visited sites for newspaper articles
We also had to assess the other students for their blog specimen assessment form was found here

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

WEEK 5 UPDATE-Speaking Truth to Power

                                         Our weekly theme is Speaking Truth of Power.
 We had to also participate on quiz 3 during our tutorials.
The weeks lecture notes is based on the Emergence of an 'Alternative' Press in South Africa. They explain more on the History of South Africa as this country experienced apartheid and the lecture notes are also based on the role of news media in public debate and political action.Our weekly tutorial task was to create a zotero library and the news team assignment was to create an annoted bibliography and also start the readings for quiz 4.
heres a pictures as an example of a newspaper clipping




Another weekly topic elaborating more on  Heritage day

heres one of the articles that we used as a group for the News story