Thursday 18th March Extended Project Meeting

Today in the lesson I gave Natalie the feedback on her article. Once feedback had been exchanged we carried on to write down some notes on the feedback and use it to analyse key points about how we can improve the articles. I read the feedback on Mike's page, and made notes using it as a reference. The class then continued to share these points so that everyone could get a clearer idea of what they should be putting in their article.

Here are the notes I made, also combined with notes I took from the class:

• Refer to the exam criteria at least twice per paragraph.
• Go completely over the feedback given to you and redo your articles accordingly.
• Use facts and figures when writing your articles.
• Supply plenty of references.
• Use an appropriate tone and mode of address for the newspaper (talking to students).
• Explain and illustrate clearly all of the points you make in your article.
• Target specific exam sections to direct your article towards. However, if your article clearly has need to contain more than one type (i.e. Global Media and Media in the Online Age), then briefly show the reader how you mix and match the different sections.

After this we continued on to write our article plans. I decided that it would be a good idea to write another article. I decided to base this one in the 'Exam Help' section of the newspaper, as I feel Mike has quite a lot of work to do in this area. After briefly going over possible ideas I decided to do an analysis of an article. The piece would contain an article, then I would write other, short articles commenting on how this main article can be seen relevant to the different topic content sections.

To lay this idea out more simply, this is what I wrote;

Article Plan:

• Item: Find or write a suitable article that contains elements from all of the different topic content prompts.
• Paragraph One: Paragraph on the relevance of this article towards 'Contemporary Media Regulation'.
• Paragraph Two: Paragraph on the relevance of this article towards 'Global Media'
• Paragraph Three: Paragraph on the relevance of this article towards 'Media and Collective Identity'
• Paragraph Four: Paragraph on the relevance of this article towards 'Media in the Online Age'
• Paragraph Five: Paragraph on the relevance of this article towards 'Post-modern Media'
• Paragraph Six: Paragraph on the relevance of this article towards ''We Media' and Democracy'

Possible Article Images:

• Image of the article in question.
• An image of a student looking confused over an exam paper.
• A drawn image of a crazy looking teacher brandishing an article.

I then used David Gauntlett's A2 revision book to write down some quick pointers that may help me when writing my article.

Sam and I working in the lesson: