Behind the Scenes
Journalism kids fingers become one with their keyboards.
December 17, 2009 • Christina Sirois
Filed under Classes, Journalism
Has anyone ever wondered what goes on in the production classes that Michelle Coro teaches? With her newspaper class, the answer is everything. But to narrow it down to just a couple things one of the topics would be the difficulty in producing it all.
Although Mrs. Coro has been teaching this newspaper class for the last 6 years the staff always run across some problems. One being in the past couple of years the staff of The View has produced 8 regular issues and 1 special issue per year.
And as many of you can tell, the newspaper class is not nearly as close to the past years successfulness. Only 1 regular issue so far has been published as one semester is comes to an end. Coming from the perspective of student who as returned to the class for 3 years, Roseana Cruz says, “I think it is disappointing that we have only had one issue this year because I know I have done better in the past.” Surely, she is not the only one who thinks this.
Even though this is a downer to think about being that behind, it may not even be a bad thing because this is the first year for the online newspaper that was called dvthundermedia.com. This has been a smoothly running site that we update quite often, having everyone submit one story per week.
Mrs. Coro states, “This is the first time since I’ve been at DV that we’ve had only one paper this far into the year. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. We’ve made really good progress with our online site, dvthundermedia.com. It’s been a high learning curb, but if we stick to it, we will continue to improve.”
Coro’s statement about the class is in fact true. As the saying says: practice makes perfect. So, if we all continue to aim for the stars nothing but improvement can come out of it.
Another negative thought that runs through all the staff’s working minds, is the stolen items that have disappeared right from our very own classroom. We started this year with 25 digital SLR cameras and ended only the first semester with 2 cameras, 2 video cameras, and a point and shoot all gone. A student in the journalism class, Ayla Mitchell, gave her opinion about the missing cameras. “Its unfortunate that we’ve had theft but hopefully we will overcome the adversity.” And yes, this brought many spirits down that someone would do that to their own class but eventually we rose above the complication and made the best out of what we had.
There may be many negative aspects to the school newspaper but we definitely cannot forget about the excellent growth that of all the students have experienced. Many students came into the classroom with no experience and a lot to learn. We learned many things from how to work cameras, typing, uploading pictures and editing them, to knowing how to work together as a team. By the end of the first semester we are all walking out as experienced journalism writers and the true definition of what a team is. But not only do we walk out as a team but also as a live-long group of friends.
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