tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942554159564807892011-07-31T04:49:30.764+01:00Hi. This is the blog for the student journalists at UCA - the University for the Creative Arts - in Surrey, England. Some of our students' individual blogs link to here and there is more about our course at: www.ucreative.ac.uk/journalismSteven Frazer Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849684268869022617noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594255415956480789.post-22937621180255130702009-09-29T18:25:00.004+01:002009-09-29T18:52:03.251+01:00

Recently Googling to check on Farnham Journalism's search engine visibility (as one does), it was nice to come across some thoughtful comment and praise for the journalism work at UCA's graduation show, on Simon Clarke's excellent Freelance Unbound blog.There is a strong production strand running through the journalism teaching at Farnham. I think this does help make our graduates more attractive

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I have committed the cardinal sin of blogging - the last post to this Student Journos blog was more than nine months ago, and it had gone decidedly stale.My defence is that it has been an exceptionally busy few months at UCA in Farnham. Away from this blog, we have been launching three new specialist journalism BA courses - in sports journalism, motoring journalism, and leisure journalism. Our

Steven Frazer Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849684268869022617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594255415956480789.post-71071219219776313442008-12-03T18:16:00.004Z2009-09-29T17:46:23.842+01:00

I haven't had time to post to this blog for a few days, as I've been busy setting up my new HTC Touch Pro mobile phone. (In passing, Vodafone UK weren't very switched on in activating my new account with them and were slow doing the network transfer from O2 - I was offline for about eight hours.) However, the effort in researching software and installing it, and syncing everything with my old HTC

Steven Frazer Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849684268869022617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594255415956480789.post-52742040782074830702008-11-19T15:25:00.003Z2008-11-19T15:44:48.415Z

My venture into the new and exciting world of pocketcasting has been frustrated by the killjoys over at mobile network O2.Does it really take three days for the high speed mainframes over there to cough up a PAC code? Apparently so.Until I get it, my shiny new Web 2.0-enabled HTC Touch Pro remains unconnected and somewhat impotent, although its built-in FM radio is neat.I've been an O2 customer

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Some of our TV Journalism students put together a quick vox pop video, featuring other UCA students - from Journalism and from other courses - expressing their views of what I suppose we could call the 'Farnham experience'. I've uploaded a compressed, web-optimized version (in MPEG4) and you can view it below. Running time is 3 minutes.We're always encouraging our Broadcast Journalism students to

Steven Frazer Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849684268869022617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-594255415956480789.post-75006184339451822902008-11-18T22:57:00.004Z2008-11-18T23:13:28.631Z

Hi, Year 1s. A couple of reminders.First, get into the spirit of debate in the blogosphere by leaving a comment on this blog and/or on one or more of your classmates' blogs. Just visit the blog and click on the 'comments' link at the foot of the posting on which you want to comment.Second, we have talked a bit about how search engines work. Use the 'Gadgets' feature on Blogger to add a list of

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I'm excited at the moment by the mobile web - all the interactivity, GPS-enabled connectivity and YouTubed video splendour of 'Web 2.0', in your jeans back pocket.The latest generation of mobile smart phones - the iPhone 3G (over six million units shipped worldwide since its May launch); and the just launched (in the UK) Google phone, Sony Xperian X1 and HTC Touch Pro are game changers. Flash-

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I wonder whether the political discourse might have undergone a change in direction this past week.The debate around Baby P and the operations of social work departments has thrown up some surprising pleas for professionals to be allowed the room to exercise professional judgement. Surprising, because the more usual response to failures or perceived failures in public services has been to call

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Hi. Welcome to the Student Journos blog. This blog is intended primarily for the undergraduate journalism students of UCA in Farnham, Surrey, but I've made it a public blog and all are welcome. Some of the comments and material may be of interest to journalism students, or would-be journalism students, anywhere.Journalism at Farnham takes a multimedia approach and many of our students experiment

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