Students Like You… Covering the Games!

Were you unable to get the tickets that you wanted for the 2010 Olympic Games? Have you ever wondered what a student like you thought and experienced while going to the Games? Or are you interested in all of those stories that aren’t covered by the major newspapers and TV stations, but are equally important? If you answered yes to any one of those questions, then you should definitely check out Students Live!

What exactly is Students Live?
Students Live is a group of 24 local students who will be covering the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games using some of today’s most popular social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and many others. This group of students, which I am a part of, has already met up several times to organize the Students Live website, spoken with some local journalists and even had a private tour of the Olympic Media Centre. The latter was especially fun for the 24 student reporters! The real excitement is just beginning, however, because in the next two months, the students will be exposed to some major coverage as they start going to not only the Olympic and Paralympic events, but also to some of the festivities at the Cultural Olympiad blogging about them.

So what does this all mean?
This means that if you want to read about the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games as seen through the eyes of the local students, you now have the chance to do so, by going to studentslive.ca and checking out the student blogs that are currently featured on the website. This will not only give you the chance to explore the Games through popular sites like Facebook and Blogger, but will allow you to find out more about the Games through 24 new points of view, ones that are fresh different.