NEWS: Students make mobile phone news (UK)

Students make mobile phone news

School children have been using their mobile phones and iPods to make the news as part of a BBC project to engage students with journalism. A class of 12 and 13-year-olds from Lilian Baylis Technology School in Lambeth, London transformed their personal gadgets into news-gathering device. Year eight students snapped photographs using their mobile phones and combined them with radio reports, which they recorded using an iPod or a traditional microphone. The result was a series of multi-media news reports available to download from the internet.

 

FULL ARTICLE AT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6215532.stm

 

 

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