As Spencer
Howson once tweeted, walking into a QUT Online Journalism lecture is
like walking into a ‘convention of a particular fruit’. That fruit is Apple
Mac of course.
It’s hard to mistake an Online Journalism student – typing away on their Ipad, tweeting
on their Iphone or admiring fashion websites on their MacBook. Sometimes they
glance up at the lecture slides. Not many seem familiar with a notepad and pen
anymore.
It’s fair to say that Online Journalism
is encouraging students to become a tech savvy bunch. But it came as a surprise
to hear from our youngest lecture guest to date, Marissa Calligeros, what her
most important tool in the field was. Yes she raved about Iphone apps like Qik
and Instagram, but they weren’t it.
It was shorthand. Who would have
thought an old school skill like shorthand could compete with apps or iphones to
be an online journalist’s best asset? For me, Marissa’s news rang true.
You can have more flashy gismos than
NASA but sometimes old fashioned journalistic techniques and skills will
prevail.
Have a go at it yourself fellow fruit lovers.....
SO TRUE!
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