Thanks for the positive comments! We are now well into the module and you should have a clear idea of what you intend to get from it...
To succeed in MAC250 you now have set up a delicious account (preface your username with 250), registered for your My Sunderland blog (go here and follow the instructions), and included links to them in a comment submitted to this blog. If you haven't done so already you MUST do so by Friday. We will not be wasting the time of committed students by spending half the session rounding up stragglers!!! As ever, if you are having problems, please contact Philip Young - I will do all I can to help.
If you are doing journalism, you might do well to read comment 4 on Paul Bradshaw's post, How important is it for new journalism graduates to have their own blog?
Neil Macintosh writes:
"I tell all the journalism students I meet this: blogs are the minimum. There’s no excuse for a student journalist who wants to work online not to have one. The only exception (and even then…) might be if they were heavily involved in student media, or were working for a publication part-time, or were doing some kind of other digital work which trumped having a mere blog. And no, MySpace/Bebo/Facebook pages don’t count"Moreover, the quality of the blog really matters, because it lets me see how good someone is unedited and entirely self-motivated. If I were to see a decent pitch with a blog address on it, I’d look, and the quality and frequency could count heavily in the author’s favour. And if a brilliant graduate didn’t have a blog, but still made interview, I’d be asking, politely, why not..."
I suspect Macintosh knows what he is talking about - he is head of editorial development at guardian.co.uk and he blogs at the very useful Completetosh.
