Tablets and mobile phones are handy, a good characteristics that caters for someone's convenience.Mobile phones with video/camera, and with access to the internet are of great help in "reporting events as they happen."
Our online class activity last Saturday is an example how these gadgets could be very helpful.
The Twitter-class-activity was a challenge. But with the aid of a fast Wifi connection, three gadgets, and a teammate you could work with gleefully, it was easier to execute things.
The "looking for event" flowed easy for us because there's an ongoing preparation for a Fashion show in Porta Vaga Roof Deck, which in our favor, was the first place we went.
It was hard gathering for data, harder that the participants do not want to be interviewed. They told us to wait, and interview him, or her, and we need to have a formal letter and everything but we were not discouraged. With our mobile phones and a tab in our hands, we said we can look for another angle of the story. As journalism majors, we know that two could play the game, so we did not settle on waiting for the participants' responses. We looked for another interviewees, went online to gather more information about the event, and brainstormed together in the event's place.
With the help of our internet connection, we were provided more data because of the event's Facebook page. The publicity online were so overwhelming that we knew we could make reports out of it without sacrificing the ethics of good journalism.
It was a great experience to report ongoing events using limited characters. It made us think of other ways to report what was happening during the moment. Pressure was there but it was also a big help because it made us think more effectively.
Mobile phones and other handy-gadgets that have internet connections are ushers of online journalists today. Because as our Online Journalism always say, "News are online before it could be on the television or radio." No questions asked.
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