Blog 25: Service Learning

1. LIA Response to blog:

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·     Jocabehd's Service Learning Log

·       Contact: Cecily Arambula (cecilyarambula@gmail.com)

      The Poly Post Editorial Office: (909) 869-3530

    Interpretive

     Perhaps the most important thing I have learned from my experience while service learning has been that journalism is always changing. While there I learned a lot about how journalism now requires video and copy. Recently, The Poly Post incorporated a "Weekend Update" segment to their website. Also, their website has been redone in recent months. My service learning mentor taught me a lot about how now, journalism majors are required to not only know how to write, but also work cameras, edit, and take photos and videos alike, since technology is ever changing constantly. The Poly Post had to have some changes done in order to keep with the changing world of technology. This is perhaps the most important because I could not have learned it as well as I did from simply reading articles or books. Being able to see it before my eyes was possibly, the greatest piece of research.  

   Applied

     My experience of service learning working at The Poly Post during the past few months has tremendously helped me answer my essential question. The Poly Post is really the place where journalism majors at Cal Poly Pomona are molded before they go onto real jobs in the industry. This was the same for me. My internship there helped me learn about ethics, technology, and new techniques in journalism. While there, I got the idea to create my project based on mainly ethics in journalism. This focus on ethics, as well as the guidance of my service learning mentor, Editor-in-Chief Cecily Arambula, I was able to see my project with new light. From there, she guided me through my answers including knowing your audience. This one in particular came to me because while at service learning, the editors are always trying to keep the content fresh and interesting for their readers. Even when designing the front page of the weekly newspaper, they always keep the students of Cal Poly in mind and what they will be interested in knowing each week .While I was there, I had access to many journalism books that helped me in the answering of my essential question, such as photojournalism books and books on AP Style writing.