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<\/p>\nWell, here it goes…<\/p>\n
First off, Dr. Collins, I owe you an apology. When this semester began, I did not think I was going to like you. You came in with your big-time knowledge about journalism and broadcasting and I stubbornly thought you weren’t going to be someone I got along with.<\/p>\n
Wow, was I wrong. I have never had a professor that genuinely cares about her students and their success like you do. I instantly began to grow to like you and learn from you quickly. Your teaching method was intense and immersive and, at times, overwhelming, but I have never gotten so much from a class as I have from this one. So, I am sorry for ever thinking I wouldn’t like you because you are hands down the best professor I have ever had.<\/p>\n
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As for my journey throughout this class, I began with little video experience and it showed in my first\ufffdproject. In my\ufffdVideo Essay,<\/a>\ufffdI had numerous shaky camera shots and blurry ones as well. I accidentally forgot a tripod when I filmed this video, creating the bad, shaky\ufffdshots. As for the story line, I thought it was all there for an early video essay.<\/p>\n Moving on to the first real news stories we did on the year, the\ufffdVO1<\/a>\ufffdand\ufffdVOSOT1<\/a>, I thought that my Farmer’s Ball story was a good start to the year but the structure and planning of my story layout needed a lot of work. I thought I had a good soundbite, but it was a little long. Overall, I thought I did a good job.\ufffd<\/span><\/p>\n In my VO2<\/a>\ufffdand\ufffdVOSOT2<\/a>, I began to put things together a little better in terms of structure and planning of my shots, and getting a good interview. For a story that was about the new upgrades to the union (what I would consider a horribly boring topic), I think I did fairly well.<\/p>\n When we set up our third stage of projects, we had to finally do different topics for the VO3<\/a>\ufffdand\ufffdVOSOT3<\/a>. That provided a very interesting challenge. Having to find not one, but two separate stories, was a challenge I have not been faced with before. I think that it made me better though because I had to utilize a plan C.<\/p>\n The growth that I got from PACKAGE1<\/a>\ufffdto\ufffdPACKAGE2<\/a>\ufffdis evident to me because I moved on from sports to a human interest story that I truly enjoyed. The second package was a story about my high school teacher whose son is battling cancer.\ufffd It’s a story I have followed since the beginning. I truly enjoyed who I worked with and how I got to know the situation and gain perspective on a community I am closed tied to.<\/p>\n The NEWSBREAK<\/a>\ufffdwas an entirely different situation. I have never done any live TV of any sort before in my life and it was so intimidating but also amazing at the same time because it was a blast and it confirmed what I want to do with my career. This class helped me grow so much in my journalism career and I am so glad to have been given this opportunity.<\/p>\n Dr. Collins, Thank you for everything.<\/p>\n -Jackson Schneider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, here it goes… First off, Dr. Collins, I owe you an apology. When this semester began, I did not think I was going to like you. You came in with your big-time knowledge about journalism and broadcasting and I stubbornly thought you weren’t going to be someone I got along with. Wow, was IContinue reading “Jackson Schneider – Final Reflection”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9000,"featured_media":11193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1254],"tags":[112,1272,1332,1330,76,1264,1259,386,1334,101],"class_list":["post-11192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jour-550-kansas-visiting-professorship","tag-class","tag-jayhawks","tag-jour","tag-jour550","tag-journalism","tag-kansas","tag-ku","tag-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-student","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11280,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions\/11280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/P_VUnQ3R2hM\/2.jpg?time=1525540566007\")
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