journal entry 4

1.) Using the Internet research and find descriptions for the roles of the following newspaper personnel:

-Editor: makes sure the publication or a section inside it is of a high quality and is accurate

- Reporter: Gathers information for an article through interviewing people or researching

- Journalist: Iterview people and report the story for the article.

- Designer: Arranges the articles in the newspaper to draw the readers attention.

journal entry 3

1.) Explain the difference between ’secular’ and ‘non-secular’.
Being secular means to be separate from a religion an non-secular maens to be part of a raligion.

 

2.) Provide FIVE links to media organisaions who provide media to the public.

 

www.msn.com, www.yahoo7.com, www.10.com, www.cnn.com, www.nytimes.com,

 

3.) Select ONE event current in the news media and provide a summary.

 

 

One current event in the news media at the moment is the article on CNN.com about the record of the shrinking rate of glaciers.Scientists have discovered that at the rate that the glaciers are shrinking most of them will be gone within a decade.

 

 

 

joural entry 2

Describe the Australian Governments NetAlert program 

The Australian Government NetAlert program provides information to parents and children on safe surfing and internet use.

Discuss the reasons why they have implemented such a program?

The Australian Government has done this program because children are going to sites they should not go to and same with the parents.

Journal Entry 1

1.) Define the term ‘wired generation’

Wired generation is the generation of people who like using toolssuch as a computer for information
2.) Provide examples of FIVE different social community sites. (Create hyperlinks)., http://www.wikipedia.org/, www.google.com, www.mooddle.com,

 

3.) Choose ONE of the list above a describe why it is used and how it could be misused

 wikipedia is use to get information and it can be misuse because anyone can edit it and put in what ever they want.