students

It's been good to see some new student names contributing to the CfJ blog during the holiday period - don't forget there'll be prizes for the best first year contributions when term resumes, so keep those blogs and comments coming in.

Meanwhile I've been working on better integration of external student blog and Twitter accounts with this site. I'm aware of a number of students who have their own blogs set up, and I'd like to run headline feeds from these to an area on the CfJ site - should be mutually beneficial in terms of traffic. The ones I know of so far are from Nick P, Alan M, Sara M, Jon S and James W. If there are others I haven't yet discovered, could you send me a link so that I can include them too? I'll get this up and running soon.

Even more students have Twitter accounts, so I've finally got around to finishing something I started a few months ago - a system which will automatically post tweets from your own Twitter accounts to this site too. To add your account to this system, follow these steps:

Samantha Dunn of the Gulbenkian cafe at the University of Kent talks about the university's increased intake of students and the effects of this on the campus and cafe.

The increased intake of students this year has brought more customers to The Gulbenkian Cafe and improved profits.

The Centre for Journalism is delighted to open the newsroom doors to its second intake of undergraduate students for Welcome Week this morning. We are very much looking forward to getting to know you all over the coming weeks.

We are looking for second year students of journalism willing to act as mentors to the new first years. The task should not be onerous. We are looking for sensible, sympathetic types (i.e.any of you) who are willing to help and support new arrivals. There are no formal duties, the university has professionals on duty to advise about issues such as money, housing and health.

The blockbuster movie of the summer gets its eagerly-anticipated premiere today. Directed by Bafta-winner Richard Pendry, it contains all the elements you would expect from the Centre for Journalism stable:  a stellar cast; superb production values; a brilliant script; heart-stopping action; thrilling drama; and, of course, tender romance. 

Universities at Medway may lack nightlife, but three students from the campus entertained themselves on a drunken night, by charging at bollards and getting arrested.

A survey conducted by Journalism students at the Medway Campus yesterday shows that more than half of the students interviewed are worried about their financial situation.

During Welcome Week, we sent our first year students out with Canon HV30 video cameras and radio microphones to interview each other as an ice-breaking exercise. Today, they used that footage as a demonstration of how to digitise footage from the camera, make a simple cut in Premiere Elements, compress the output file and upload the resulting clip of a minute or so to the centreforjournalism site.