After presenting my project today, I feel that the future of my career as a journalist will be a great one. I would like to personally thank my journalism professor Mrs. Serbino Sandifer-Walker for believing in me and entrusting me with this subject. If it was not for her pushing me to be the best, this project would have not been a success.

I will continue to cover this story next semester by working with Mrs. Walker to commerate the 50th anniversary of the TSU 13 on March 4. I'm going to make sure to keep the quality of the story very high and I'm going to continue to work hard on this project.

Enjoy your break and I will be back in 2010!

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My collage on student movements throughout the years.

Now that I have completed my African American Literature paper, it time to buckle down to start writing my story for this project.

Honestly, I am super nervous about my story because my Professor, Mrs. Walker, has so much pride in my writing. She considers me a very strong writer and wants my skills to be pushed to the next level. I know I can do it, but with all this pressure put on me, I am scared to fail.

This Student Movement project, I feel, is going to be the start of my journalism career. Even at a young age, I knew that I wanted a career that involved me writing all the time. Now as a sophomore in college, I can actually see that light at the end of the road!

I want to write this story from a student looking at the movements throughout the years. I want to explain how these movements affect the students of today and show that if was not for these fearless people, our rights as students would be very limited.

I want to begin with the most influential student movement of this century: the 1960's civil rights sit-ins. Beginning with the first one in Greensboro, NC, I then want to take a trip throughout that movement and show the courage these student had at this time.

Many do not know that Texas Southern University played a part in the civil rights movement. Houston was also segregated at the time and 13 students from this university sought out to make a change. I want to highlight the TSU 13 in my story and show my fellow TSU students that we too can make a change.

Showing how these movements paved the way for other major student movements, I am going to talk about major student led protest such as the Vietnam War and Tienanmen Square. Moving on to today, I'm will show how students made 2008 election of Barack Obama as President a huge success and how the protest against the tuition raise at UC Berkeley are very important. We, as students, need to see that these movements are still effective today.

This writing process for this story is going to test my skills, but I feel it will benefit me in such a positive way.

My journey throughout this project has been an interesting one. I was assigned this topic about a month ago by my Journalism professor, Mrs. Sandifer-Walker. Reluctant about it at first, I did not see myself enjoying working on it at all. Confused, I went to discuss my topic with Professor Walker. During our discussion, Professor Walker talked about how much this movement affected her and why students today should pay homage to these courageous people. If it were not for these fearless young men and women, we would not be the country we are today.

With a new found determination, I began to develop my student movement story. Through the website Vuvox.com, I created a photo collage depicted the the student movement throughout the years, starting with the 1960s sit-ins. I then travel to the 1970s, displaying student protest against the Vietnam War. Moving on to the 1980s, I show the Tienanmen Square protest and then the 1990s protest against the Gulf War. Ending with the movements of today, I show the students for Barack Obama movement and the current UC Berkeley protest against the tuition raise. After finishing my collage, I noticed that the sit ins of the 60's played a major role in the student movements of today. I also created A Look on Student Movement blog to show my progess with this project.

This project has truly opened my eyes to the whole world of student movements. I wish my classmates will take a note from these history makers and take the time to recognize them in their entirety.

With the help of VUVOX.COM, I have created a collage showcasing student movements, starting with the Civil Rights sit-ins of the 1960's.

Some of the sit ins I focus on include the Greensboro 4, TSU 13, and many more that occurred in the south during that time period.

With the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro and TSU sit-ins coming up next year, I also show how these movements help aid other student movements throughout the years.

Student led protest such as the Vietnam War and Tienanmen Square are just some of the many student movements that occurred after the sit-ins of the 60s.

If it were not for these courageous students of that movement, we would not be the country we are today.

We should thank these leaders for their dedication, sacrifices, and determination to the movement and follow in their foot steps.

When starting my multimedia project, I was not instantly excited about the work I was going to do. It took a while for me to get in the swing of things, but now that I’m in the process of being complete, I am starting to enjoy working with the multimedia aspect of my story. With the help of Mrs. Sandifer-Walker, she opened my eyes to how I can tell the story of student movements through this “new media”.

One of my favorite multimedia tools of my project is the collage provided by Vuvox.com. It is so easy to tell your story with pictures, video, and music arranged in any style of your choice. Being that my story is about student movements, I plan to show this from the 1960s through today. Those 1960 sit ins started a wave of student ran protest and with this collage, I can show the transition of that throughout the years.

Producing a website is also an aspect of the project that I’m starting to enjoy. With the Adobe product Dreamweaver, making this website is a breeze. Through this website, I get to showcase my story, links relating to student movements, and photos. It is also a great digital portfolio that shows my skills as a journalist.

With social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, it is going to be easy to get my project out to my fellow college students. I have been tweeting and updating my status about me working on my project. Also, I have create a blog to showcase my story on Blogger.com. These tools only will help to make my project a success.

My time in Online Journalism has been a great one. With this project almost complete, I have grown as a journalist and have adjusted to the changes that effects journalism today. I would like to personally thank Mrs. Sandifer-Walker with entrusting me with covering this story. She has truly opened me up to what it is like to be a real journalist.