Attie Pearsall

I have been attempting to get more crafty with take photos. Now I will admit I do not have a camera so once again the pictures you will see are from my Iphone 4. I do like to take pictures of landscapes though, and I also pride myself on Instagramming pictures. The most important thing that I learned was that it takes multiple tries to get a good picture. Try multiple times and make sure that you change the angles up if needed.

Throughout the semester we learned many different things about research and one of them was about doing research in the library. Joy Suh took time to show our class how to do research from GMU’s library website. She showed us all of the essential databases that we will need fr research and writing papers. I knew about most of the websites the Mrs. Suh pointed out, but I was unfamiliar with how to get to the databases. I hear about them all the time from teachers, but I rarely use them unless I absolutely have too. I am glad we had this class because now I feel as though I know more about the databases.

Kevin Goldberg came and spoke to class, and we learned all about what he considers the 7 deadly sins of journalism. It is interesting because I actually took Kevin Goldberg for Journalism Law. He knew a lot about the laws that journalist must write by.

Wrath- Not everything is fair game in journalism

Envy- Ask for permission first

Pride- Make sure you are right about what you write about, or do not write about it

Lust- the copyright of the content belongs to whoever created the content

Sloth- It is not always about getting it first, it is about getting it right

Greed- If they want to make money then we shouldn’t use their stuff to make money

Gluttony- Fair Use Defense Act is not an excuse for whatever is it that you use that isn’t your own conent