Student: Bobby Bergonio
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Students will pitch story ideas they are interested in developing. Participants in the story conferences will critique the story ideas to assist in the editorial process. Students will develop their story ideas into video stories for the TV magazine and extended written stories for the website.
In Bobby's case, this pitching and critiquing of a story in the wake of Hurricane Hainan led him to embark on a mission to the Philippines and ultimately co-author "Aloha Medical Mission Helps Heal the Poor in the Philippines" in Hawaii Business Magazine.
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Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 13 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: It's definitely progressed with the Writing Intensives: it gets harder and harder. You'll have to figure it out as you enter more Writing Intensives.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 12 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: It's conflicting... you're in school, so you expect to be guided... as you go through college, you lose touch with working with professors... that's how it really works out there.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 11 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I want to move, but it seems smarter to try the market here, because I already have my foot in the door. If I want to progress in a career as a reporter, then I pretty much have to [move]. People who move to the mainland... you're in a different place, so there's different events, topics that are occurring, that are different from here. I feel like if you do go to the mainland, you can offer a lot when you do come back, you've progressed. Why wouldn't you come back to Hawaiʻi? There's not a lot of places like Hawaiʻi... there's a lot of things going on.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 10 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Going out into the field, I'd rather start being a reporter. If I start out as a reporter now, I'll just accumulate knowledge. Writing probably won't be fun all the time... but being able to know how to write... can be beneficial... in approaching how to read things, how you view a lot of things.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 9 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I don't think it has changed too much... Maybe just being more open to people and not judging people initially... When you first go into a country, you don't know how to act... In the Philippines, everybody is polite... [I see Hawaiʻi now] for what it can be... here, as a Filipino, I feel like I'm out of touch, a little bit... over there, they still have language, which is one of the more important things... I see [my major] a LOT differently... If you haven't really gone out into the field and actually seen the career in action... a major is a major... but going out into the field and applying everything... you realize how much you can gain, how much you can learn... how much potential Journalism has, how much potential the major has.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 8 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The weirdest thing about going to the Philippines is seeing their view of... people in Hawaiʻi. I think they were expecting me to be more snobbish. America's just regarded as this kind of prize. When you go into another country at first you're kinda skeptical if you should interact with strangers. There's a certain type of community in the Philippines... they're a lot more close-knit when it comes to neighborhoods and people knowing everyone.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 7 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Journalism is just a different writing style [from English]. It kinda shows different aspects of writing and how you can apply it to real-world careers. It's made me see words differently; the use of language differently. I don't think you really know the value of writing until you do apply it in another form. And I think that's the biggest thing I got from going to the Philippines. Going to the Philippines, you really do see all walks of life. And also seeing the people here and how they interact with a foreign group.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 6 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: A lot of the essays aren't research based or rhetorical essays, they're mainly just evaluations or reflections, as opposed to all the English classes.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 5 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: It's difficult, because you're working with someone who's doing the same project as you, so you gotta make sure you don't use the same things they do. [Kato and Bernadette] both have equally important views of writing... there are no visuals without the actual writing process and knowing how the writing can trigger or help guide the visuals. The main difference between Writing Intensives in my other English classes and this one, is the way it was structured when it comes to approaching English.Item Student interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Journalism, clip 4 of 13(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Bergonio, Bobby; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Being able to just go into this new place... realizing there are so many more stories out there, [that] there's more potential in these other cities, [was really motivating].