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During this week, we were not asked to submit a certain assignment or a specific topic. Instead there were slides that introduced us into the ABC’s of Journalism and the important elements when writing a newsletter or story. Since I took the course, Writing for Mass Media, I did remember some of these topics that were … Continue reading Reflection →

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On this newspaper of the OU Daily, I circled most of all the key elements that are found on newspapers. They were all pretty easy to find, except a subhead. I looked throughout the entire newspaper and I was not able to locate a single subhead. I enjoyed finding these different terms because I did … Continue reading Newspaper Markup →

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This unit, we were asked to review the elements of writing basics. We were asked to refresh on elements of news before we begin our first project. It was helpful to refresh because I forgot some basic aspects, like the elements of news. I forgot the acronym SPICE COPPS shows what is news worthy and … Continue reading Reflection →

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This week our assignments included watching tutorials, dissecting the structure of a newspaper and then recreating a typesetting assignment. As we watched the tutorials, we were also asked to do activities or “challenges” as the lessons progressed. When I first began the challenges, I didn’t think that they were going to be too hard because […]

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This week was very interesting. We were asked to watch videos about indesign and Photoshop. There were various videos and they were all very informative but complicated for me to learn through them correctly. We were then asked to recreate only the tex…

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This week was very interesting. We were asked to watch videos about indesign and Photoshop. There were various videos and they were all very informative but complicated for me to learn through them correctly. We were then asked to recreate only the tex…

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I’m going to be honest; this week was rough. I was asked to dive headfirst into the world of Photoshop and InDesign. I have a little experience with photoshop so I was pretty excited when I saw that we were going to start learning how to use it! I had never really used InDesign so … Continue reading Bootcamp Reflection →

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For this week’s assignment, I was asked to get very familiar with the two main tools I will be using throughout the course of pr publications: Photoshop and InDesign. I was asked to watch Lynda videos on exactly how to use these tools. Two assignments followed watching the Lynda tutorials. At first I was super […]

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During the week, I was asked to get elbows deep in Photoshop and InDesign. First, we…

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1st Not only does shoot the serif have the best name, but it is also the most fun to play. Before I played the game I thought it would be fairly easy because I knew what a serif font was. However, the game was not as easy as I had anticipated. Different letters in different fonts proved […]