The new Txolon turf meets the highest quality requirements of the UEFA
Zornotza’s soccer field Txolon count’s since this past Monday with a new artificial turf surface of last generation that meets the highest quality requirements of European Football Federation. According to Councilman Amorebieta Sports and Culture, Andoni Agirrebeitia, the test is assessed as a 'FIFA two-star', the same that is required to play matches of the Champions League.
Amorebieta’s defender and juvenile coach, Jon Larreategi corroborates his words and said that kids are "delighted" with the new material. "It's a breakthrough for them, especially when it starts to get cold, because the grass is frozen and they were afraid to jump, especially goalkeepers."
20 teams using the facilities
The new field was built on the anterior surface, which has prevented the transfer to a landfill than
The investment amounted to 200,000 euros which included, besides the new surface irrigation system and civil works. A cost "very low for the quality of material," says Agirrebeitia, achieved thanks to the successful bidders are lowering prices due to the crisis. It is also expected to change next month's perimeter networks soccer field due to its deterioration.
Cesar Etxebarria Olano
“I hope my contribution would be positive in this experience”
Carolyn Corrie
Visitor teacher on the IES
JUANTXO UNANUA
BEASAIN. The Secondary School of Beasain is living, within another centers in Euskadi during this course, a positive, new experience. It is a part of the innovative programme of the General Sub-direction of International Relations of Education Department. This entity has signed an agreement with US authorities in order to concede 60 visitor-teacher's grants. Carolyn Corrie is the person who has arrived to this educational center in Beasain, who is already working as an English teacher on those buildings in Ugartemendi neighborhood. This American teacher will remain the whole 2011-12 course in Beasain.
-What is exactly doing a teacher from New York in the classrooms of Beasain's Institute?
-Well, I've been teaching English in Los Angeles for some years. Before being a teacher, I was a laboralist lawyer, but that was a career I didn't like. I've always be looking forward traveling, to learn about other parts and cultures in the world, framing them on my profession. And the opportunity reached with the pilot program “North American Visiting Professors in Spain” of the Education Department.
-Which are the goals that the program should apply on the Institute of Beasain?
-To support the English bilingual programs they are working with here. And, at the same time, we take advantage of the exchange through communities around different teaching forms, which sometimes are quite similar. Besides, it is an opportunity to make some exchanges about the educational systems, as well as about the culture and history of both countries.
-And you chose Beasain for that experience.
-There were different possibilities, some of them in order to work on school subjects where I couldn't. It was very important for me to teach English, as it is my specialty, and the Institute of Beasain was looking for a teacher to work on the specialty of Social Sciences on the English area. I am very haunted here.
-Which is the contribution you are hoping to make in the Institute and your students through this course?
-I have some experience on helping students that are looking for talking English very well. That's my specialty. Besides, at the same time, to get to know the social and political history, the culture, ecc, of the United States is another goal of myself and the course. Because of that, we work around different issues in the lessons. For example, Halloween has been one of the last topics. The students have made and oral presentation about it, as if they were going to explain the celebration, its origins and sense to someone else, and they have had to make it in the better talking English they know. By January, we will work on another topic; that is the History, Culture, Society and Politics of the Basque Country. That will be another oral presentation the students will need to work on as if they werw going to explain it in best talking English, to someone from abroad, in this case, to me. Before finishing the course, we will work on the same topics, but about the United States.
-So, are the students being an active part in the program?
-The important thing is that they get involved, because they are gonna gain when they improve the practice of the English language. They will acquire fluency, security and richness with the language.
-Which was your first impression when you arrived to the Institute?
-Well, the first thing I have met are some nice, kind colleagues. On the other hand, when you go out of your country and you arrive to another one you realize that there are another teaching systems that are as good or better than the one of your country. The difference is that on the United States the compulsory education is until you are 16, but they give you the Secondary School Title when you are 18, not like here where, at the same time, you can apply to make FP. That fact makes that, on the United States, when they are around 17, many people leave their studies, so the school failure is questioned. I also noticed that the subjects are not taught everyday of the week and that their timetable change. I think that it is better to the student when the languages' lessons are imparted as many times as they can.
“I defend the trilingualism on the classrooms”
Another fact Carolyn Corrie made remarkable was the the centers in the Basque Country work on the bilingual way, in the relations through the people, as well as on the educational world. She finds very positive the bilingualism of Basque centers, besides in some centers a third language appears. “In some US zones is unthinkable to apply the bilingualism. The problem appears where quite a lot latin migrants live and there Spanish is only learned as a subject. It would be unthinkable for both languages to work on the same level. And I don't find that positive, the lessons should be imparted on both languages”, says Carolyn.
Uxue Garro Irastorza
Sumary:
Without a doubt, 11 September 2011 will remain as a day for history. A few days after the attacks, the weekly magazine The Economist chose for its cover a significant headline, “The Day the World Changed” over a picture of a smoky, dusty cloud hiding Manhattan’s new skyline without the World Trade Center’s towers. The terrorist attacks on the New York and Washington that day are certainly a milestone on our history. And few doubt that this was a historical day for journalism as well. The attacks were the most dramatic live news ever, and the most watched event in the history of television. At the same time, the attacks initiated some of the biggest news coverage ever produced by newspaper and magazines from every corner of the world.
During those hours, all the media were confronted with an overflowing information demand that they had to fulfil. Radio and television made information marathons, in witch they cross-cut live images of the towers and film repetitions of the impacts with interviews with witnesses and experts.
This article discusses to what extent the interactive media passes that technological and editorial test. News coverage of those events caused unknown technological demands of online publications all over the world. Briefly, September 11 was the opportunity to measure the grade of both technical and professional development reached by the digital media at the beginning of the 21st century. This article studies a sample of 18 online newspaper from nine different countries. In the first case, “El País” is the most widely read newspaper in Spain with an average daily circulation of 433,617 copies in 2001. The second is “El Mundo”, witch at the time was the second largest in circulation among the Spanish print dailies with 312,366 copies daily.
What happened in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 had some peculiarities, difficult to repeat by any other event. The factors that contributed to magnify this media impact could be summed up as two: space and time.
In the space factor, the fact that the main events occurred at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, contributed to their iconic impact. Besides, both places (the Twin Towers and Pentagon) assured a maximum exposure for the media, even a breaking news situation. Hundreds of journalists and cameras could access the affected areas very quickly, in such way that the event could be watched, literally, live, as it was happening, and from multiple points of view.
In the time factor, also the timing of the September 11 events, as well as the pace of development of what was occurring, contributed to their spectacular nature and their media impact. This coverage was not limited to broadcasters and online media. Newspapers also had enough time to prepare special editions about the events and many.
From a purely narrative point of view, the rhythm of development of events produced a frantic information beat, almost like in a feature film, in witch things were happening minute by minute. That said, what did happen specifically on the internet? In fact, the World Wide Web suddenly became the platform towards which users massively rushed to search for information. According to Google, during the two hours following the stars of the attacks, an average of 6000 searches of the acronym “CNN” were performed every minute. And, as a matter of fact, 80 percent of the 500 most searched words of that day in Google were related to the terrorist attacks.
September 11 events caught the world by surprise. Some of the deficiencies that could be observed are as follows.
- Lack of technological foresight. The experience of September 11 meant a key test of the internet as a network. A few minutes after the news of the first attack was broadcast, the internet had to respond to a sudden multiplication of traffic. Different services in charge of monitoring the browsing speed in the web point at the fact that the internet as a whole responded satisfactorily to the test. In fact, although to a lesser extent that other media outlets, the internet was used by millions of people on many different ways. Regarding, the online media, and again according to Keynote index, USAToday.com reduced its accessibility to 18.2 percent and MSNBC to 22.0 percent.
This drastic reduction in the accessibility to online media did not only occur in the US, but also affected digital publications in the other parts of the world. Most of the newspapers reduced their graphical offer to the minimum. Among other, newspapers such as Le Monde, Die Welt, Clarin, El Mundo, which practically doubled its average daily traffic, experienced serious accessibility problems due to the sudden avalanche of users searching the latest breaking news.
In fact, the most prestigious newspapers, those that usually attract a grater number of visitors, were precisely the ones who experienced the greatest problems keeping their services on the internet active.
- Lack of editorial prudence. In the face of this sudden and unexpected avalanche of news, the online newspaper had to act rapidly. Online newspaper ere one of the media outlets in which haste resulted most evidently in information errors. This lack of editorial prudence confirmed the fears of Fred H. Cate about online sources. From this point of view, expressed before the popularization of the internet as a platform for news delivery, online media would have more problems that other media outlets in terms of accuracy and reliability due to their structural characteristics. Cate underlines the fact that the unstoppable trend to digitalization could lead to an easier manipulation of data. Since there wouldn’t be a physical registry of any information; in addition, he indicates that online networks tend to speed up the flow of information in multiple directions, which reduces the tine and opportunity for checking data. In Spain, one of the examples that can be recalled is the case of the internet edition of the nations newspaper El Mundo . In our sample of 18 screenshots of online newspapers, we have found at least three more cases in witch false news was published.
In this way, the online newspaper stand from the print versions, were including errors and omissions notes in common practice. It seems as though online editions understand the evanescent character of digital media as justification for impunity and that it isn’t necessary to correct errors, since they do not stay written, in black and white somewhere. However, it is important to stress the fact that, in this case, even the print newspaper were not completely free of information errors, which were not rectified afterwards either. It seems that online media journalists tend to give more importance to speed that to accuracy, and that they adopt some sense of impunity justified by this need for speed.
- Lack of own identity. Internet publications, barely 10 years of age, have just begun their particular process of development and independence. The news coverage of September 11 clearly showed that, by that time, the internet newspaper were still in their youth. In these beginnings, newspapers’ web editions certainly face an identity problem. They tend to integrate the characteristics of a networked computer environment. The most evident common denominator among all the internet newspapers was probably the effort to publish breaking news. The newspapers included continuous information updates, trying to keep up with the frantic pace of the events in the US and to attend to the unceasing information, some newspapers modified not only their standard layout, but their character as well. Other newspapers, however, tried to combine last minute news with a more analytical treatment of information. Nevertheless, this kind of outstanding professionalism was the exception. Most online newspapers, whether due to a lack of anticipation or a lack of news staff, hesitated when the time arrived as to how to define the kind of news coverage the events deserved. And this hesitation is a clear sign the journalistic identity of digital publications still remains unresolved.
Of course, not everything about news coverage of the September 11 events by the internet press was a failure. Maybe not so clearly during the rush of the first hours due to the problems already explained, but certainly in the days and weeks after, that experience contributed to the improvement of online newspapers. Therefore, September 11 may be considered as a key date for the consolidation of certain strengths that are described in the following.
If we pay attention to the news sites we clearly see the importance and scale of this increase in usage. An average of 11.7 million North Americans visited news websites every day during the week after the tragedy. The audience of news category increased by about 80 percent during the week ending 16 September, compared to the previous week. This growth of audience on the internet media worldwide lasted a long time, especially in the case of online newspapers. After experiencing an audience peak during the days right after the attacks, the web editions of the man dailies experienced a sustained upward trend in their audiences.
About the implementation and development of news interactive journalistic formats, the text said, that since the late 90’s technology and software have advanced very quickly in the field of multimedia content. However, the evolution of the new multimedia applications, and particularly Macromedia Flash, made possible a qualitative jump in the formats and information genres for the web.
This technological development coincided on September 11 with a kind of news content hat, due to its richness in images and sounds, asked for the use of multimedia genres far beyond simple text. In the same way, the quantity and quality of this graphic information encouraged the online newspapers to produce a great amount of interactive infographics with advanced uses of interactivity and, especially, of hypertextuality and multimediality.
Probably the best example of these new genres is found in the US. One company that, without a doubt, was ahead of the experiments with new multimedia information formats was MSNBC. MSNBC published a great number of special reports, such as “The Darkest day”, which are remarkable achievements in journalistic narrative on the internet. This multimedia experience, as MSNBC called it, brings to the reader/watcher the possibility of an interactive, multimedia and hypertextual account of the events, in which text, sounds, images and navigation are extremely well integrated in one unique narrative discourse.
As conclusion, first of all, the case of September 11 proves that, at the beginning of the 21st century, interactive media are not technologically consolidated yet and, despite their worldwide character, they are not in a condition to a guarantee a stable connectivity. Second, these media show an insufficient editorial maturity that occasionally leads the to commit important mistakes in their news reporting.
However, not everything is gloomy. As been shown in this article, news coverage of September 11 by internet newspaper involved a clear display of the potential that these media can offer.
Comment:
In my opinion, the article is good to know all about the coverage of the attacks. Those days all the information come very fast, and with this article I have learned that maybe all the information was not entirely successful. The online media on September 11 wasn’t prepared to give us all the information. This kind of media was a new media, that at the time, was growing up. I think that moment was the beginning of the online medium we know today. In this article its talk about the lack of coverage, own identity, editorial prudence... In my opinion, I can understand about those lacks, because the online media was new for all the people. Besides, all the information was new for all, knowing that the attacks were one of the most important attacks in the world.
Cesar Etxebarria. Group 31.
Journalism 4.
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