Periodismo Project
In this project there were many things that I learned as a
Spanish speaker and a student in general.
The objective of this project to get put in a group of four people and
have one country to research. Each team
member had to research independently a current event that is happening in this
country, research things to do in this country and create and advertisement,
research a political event that has happened or is happening, etc. After the independent research was finished
by a certain deadline the group got back together and put our independent
research together to create a video or a newspaper about our research.
During this project my group had a great experience by basing our newscast as if we were the cast of anchorman, but talking in Spanish. I loved being able to have fun in a group while learning to write and speak Spanish. We learned how to speak Spanish by reading it and correcting ourselves when we wrote a word wrong or said it incorrectly. The best moment during this project was being able to act like an actual news cast and act like we were the Anchorman crew because doing the newscast this way brought many funny moments and smiles to our group.
This project was difficult in a few different ways for me. I found that after researching and watching other news casts that are done in Spanish speaking countries that these Spanish speakers can talk clearly and at a decent speed where they are not talking to slow or too fast. When my group recorded our news cast, we had many errors with our speaking ability because we were either talking a little too slow or not clear for the listeners to understand. Also we had to make sure our scripts that we wrote made since and made sure we used words that made since to us and easy enough for us to say.
During this project I didn’t just learn how to better speak in Spanish or write better in Spanish, but this project made me learn how to be a better leader. Our group did get off task a lot and it took a leader to keep this group on task and get the project done on time. There was not just one leader in our group, we all helped on another stay on task when we were not taking it seriously. Even though we did a video that is funny laughing just motivated our group to add something else or just finish our part so we could watch it and laugh once again. It look leadership from each group member to make this project successful for my group.
Now that my Spanish class has spent a while focusing on current events in Spanish speaking countries the class has learned how to listen and comprehend what goes on in Spanish speaking countries and have to understand what current events have been happening to make our newspaper or video. After we comprehended what has and is happening we had to put this in our own words using the skills of writing in the past and present tense and also speaking in these different tenses while learning new vocabulary.
During this project my group had a great experience by basing our newscast as if we were the cast of anchorman, but talking in Spanish. I loved being able to have fun in a group while learning to write and speak Spanish. We learned how to speak Spanish by reading it and correcting ourselves when we wrote a word wrong or said it incorrectly. The best moment during this project was being able to act like an actual news cast and act like we were the Anchorman crew because doing the newscast this way brought many funny moments and smiles to our group.
This project was difficult in a few different ways for me. I found that after researching and watching other news casts that are done in Spanish speaking countries that these Spanish speakers can talk clearly and at a decent speed where they are not talking to slow or too fast. When my group recorded our news cast, we had many errors with our speaking ability because we were either talking a little too slow or not clear for the listeners to understand. Also we had to make sure our scripts that we wrote made since and made sure we used words that made since to us and easy enough for us to say.
During this project I didn’t just learn how to better speak in Spanish or write better in Spanish, but this project made me learn how to be a better leader. Our group did get off task a lot and it took a leader to keep this group on task and get the project done on time. There was not just one leader in our group, we all helped on another stay on task when we were not taking it seriously. Even though we did a video that is funny laughing just motivated our group to add something else or just finish our part so we could watch it and laugh once again. It look leadership from each group member to make this project successful for my group.
Now that my Spanish class has spent a while focusing on current events in Spanish speaking countries the class has learned how to listen and comprehend what goes on in Spanish speaking countries and have to understand what current events have been happening to make our newspaper or video. After we comprehended what has and is happening we had to put this in our own words using the skills of writing in the past and present tense and also speaking in these different tenses while learning new vocabulary.