Newspaper Today editors broke the class into smaller groups to go over basic story structures and read examples (both good and bad). Many students from Journalism 1 have a hard time getting started. This project always helps and builds confidence.
Journalism 1 Today began our discussion and lessons on journalism ethics. I have students read “Hacked Heaven” from The New Republic. This is the piece Stephen Glass fabricated in 1998. It’s also the article the movie “Shattered Glass” is based around. Then we watch the movie. Behind the Scenes During my conference period, I made
Journalism 1 Today in J1 we continued to work on interviewing and talking to people. The goal of speed dating is to make students comfortable talking to people and finding questions that get others talking. We voted for the most interesting person in the class. As a bonus, I secretly ask a student coming into
I was out today for a funeral. Editors in each class went over procedures for each publication. Again, I spend a lot of time and energy the first six-weeks to enforce proper procedures. Advanced Photojournalism Editors demonstrated workflow. See the flow chart we use in class here. Newspaper Editors broke up the class into smaller
Journalism 1 Today was a fun day of practicing interviewing (having a conversation). We played head, shoulders, knees, toes, cup (or rubber duck). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgcrdPAHaLA The player who doesn’t get the duck must answer a “would you rather” question as a conversation starter. After the game, I randomly pair up everyone (drawing a card from a
We had cake today! It’s my birthday. We celebrated all of our summer and August birthdays. Today was also Calendar Day. I learned the hard way if I’m going to have a work day on Saturday or a school holiday, to let parents and students know early. Real early. Photojournalism Today we spend a few
Day 1 for B Day It’s become a tradition to have cereal the first day of school On B Days, I have all my publication classes. It’s not exciting at all – to be honest. We eat cereal, talk about our summer, set up computer settings, hand out quote books, take any staff photos we
First day of school Mansfield ISD is on block schedule. My schedule is below for reference. I’ve been teaching for 24 years, and I still hate the first couple days of school. I’m ready to just be in the grove and get going. However, I know it takes the whole first six weeks to get
In-Service Day You know the pain. All day today was full of meetings. Mostly good stuff today. New policies and procedures. The little time I had in my class, I updated a few things on our policy manual. If you don’t have policies set in place, make it a priority. Use ours as a starter.
We started in-service today. I’m one of those teachers who brings my laptop to work on other things. We all know only a small percentage of of in-service applies to the journalism teacher. I worked with a vendor to set up a fundraiser. We sell spirit wear at the start of school. We get a