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I really have to hand it to Walsworth Publishing Company. At the JEA/NSPA convention their presence was amazing.
They gave an educational experience with their game and variety of yearbooks they had on display were beneficial to schools who are starting to incorporate design into their yearbooks.
Knowing that it is my last year in high school, and the convention in Portland was probably my last, I feel a new confidence because of the tools I have received from the convention and from my experiences in journalism in high school.
I wish to major in journalism, and I feel that I am ready for the next level. It is all thanks to my adviser Ms. Monroe and the JEA/NSPA conventions I’ve been to. Hopefully, one day I’ll be an instructor at a convention, or a keynote speaker.
Looking back on the convention and my notes, I feel a great combination of education and experience. The seminars and the surroundings were a perfect blend.
The weather was great and the teachers just out did themselves. I was very impressed with all of the effort that the JEA and NSPA officials put forth, the convention ran smoothly and was very informative.
So the long awaited awards ceremony was this afternoon, and me and my fellow classmates were just tired out of our minds. So, it was pretty funny that during the ceremony when we went to the hotel to relax because we were just so tired.
The day went on and we slept for about an hour and 10 minutes. We missed the ceremony completely.
After all the seminars I’ve gone to, I realize just exactly the complexity and dimensions of journalism. There are so many ways to appeal to the public in order to address news.
I am gonna major in journalism someday, so it was interesting to think how wonderful it is to be in the field of journalism. Just seeing every one walk around with either a notebook or camera in hand, it’s interesting to think that just maybe this is a bigger art than it gets credit for.
The moment we had all been waiting for kicked off at 9:00 a.m. today. Kids with their free notepads in hand and pens in the other was the scene that participants all got to see.
However, I found it hard to get excited because, after all, I had already been walking around for the past two days. Getting up to go learn was not really the first thing on my mind. The first session I went to was about posting online newspapers and how to make the experience easier. Ten minutes into the session I felt myself thinking about lunch and what me and my friends were gonna do later.
So to my surprise and probably to every other photographer at this year’s convention, there are hardly any sessions on photography.
It’s probably because, the judges are the photography teachers and they will be judging during all the sessions, but still… come on man, I feel left out.
If the buildings don’t fascinate you in Portland, then the forest and vegetation all around will. For today’s activities the Burges Journalism staff and I went to the Columbia River Gorge, just outside of Portland.
If you recall my previous blog, we come from the desert in west Texas. So, in that sense imagine the awe I felt standing before a waterfall that was over 100 ft. tall. Everything around me was so green and filled with life, unlike the dead grass that I always have to sweep off of my porch in El Paso.
Ah, my first blog ever! Well anyway, I am the head photographer from Burges High School in El Paso, Texas, and in my experiences in journalism I have found ways to open doors for my future career.
Last year, the JEA conference taught me a lot and I look forward to this year’s convention. Yet first, there was the long trip from our border town of El Paso to Portland. The long trip all the way up to Portland from El Paso has got to be one of the most exhausting trips I have made.
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