By Gabrielle Sanders
Another day with the Greene Program and it has already taught me pretty valuable skills within not only journalism but also with other aspects of life, like public speaking. As someone who was pretty unfamiliar and has a slight aversion to speaking in front of large crowds, I found the press conference with New York State Senator Anthony Palumbo’s aide Ray Weber was an experience I never even imagined going through or seeing with my own two eyes.
Although I had a small interest in politics and political topics, I don’t think the average person imagines or let alone thinks of speaking to a person who is within the senate. Being able to ask personal questions face to face about different issues in the community, the encounter left me with a new perspective on legislations and how the people within senate handle new laws that get passed including on how they view the new idea and the different plans they have to implement to make the New York community a better and comfortable place.
The Greene Team also got to learn a bit about podcasting and audio, how to properly speak into a microphone and how to operate our podcast plus some facts about podcasting (the fact that there are 5 million plus podcast out there is crazy). I hope that after we learned the proper set up for podcasting will motivate one, some, or even all of us to create our own podcast or even collaborate on one.