If you have read my About page, you would know by now that I am studying to hopefully become a new media professor at Kuwait University. My main goal is to get as much knowledge and experience in the field of online journalism and then transfer all of what I have gained to my future students in Kuwait University. During the two years of my master’s program at the University of Florida, most of the new media knowledge I received was theory based. I read a lot of books and studies about online journalism, and I wrote a few papers that focused on this fairly new field, but that didn’t really enhance my practical abilities. I believe this class will do just that. To become an expert in this field, you need a theoretical base as well as some hands-on experience. This blog that you are currently visiting or reading was required by this class, and I truly believe that I wouldn’t have started a blog if it wasn’t for the journalists’ toolkit class.
With the advent of the Internet, the profession of journalism is evolving at a rapid pace. This class also introduces new reporting skills that are needed in order to adapt to the constant transformations occurring in our field. I have taken many reporting classes, and all I had to do was interview people and write a story. This class adds to this basic assumption of a reporter. We will be learning how to capture and edit audio and video, how to take good photographs, and more importantly, how to put a final product online for the whole world to experience. In my six years of studying journalism in the United States, I haven’t had any academic experience with audio, video or photography, and I’m excited that soon enough, I will gain these skills that, I am pretty sure, will help me in the future. The goal of this class is to become an all around reporter, and that’s what I want to be and thats what I want to teach my future students.
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