Fun Day for All Today we worked through famous events in history. (See attached list.) These are actually events from the song, “We didn’t start ...

Journalism 1 I do my best to take time weekly to talk about current news with my Journalism 1 class. We usually watch Lester Holt ...

Journalism 1, Yearbook, Newspaper Most of my staff and my intro class are working on feature writing (or refining their skills). Journalism 1’s goal is ...

Remembering Today, is a day I take off from yearbooking and just sit and talk about events of 9/11. I’ve included some discussion topics. I ...

Journalism 1 Today, I broke down paragraph by paragraph about how to write a feature story. I use a UIL prompt to select facts/quotes to ...

All Classes Today was a workday. I’m feeling behind in newspaper because stories are not coming in quickly. Yearbook is slow to create designs from ...

Finally! After a brief break for Laws and Ethics, Journalism 1 is writing a story. Journalism 1 Today, we did a short recap (using Jenny ...

Again, the first six-weeks is all about drilling procedures and policies. Photojournalism I had editors cover how to save photos to the server. Each photographer ...

Journalism 1 Continuing journalism ethics and laws, today was about press rights, the First Amendment and looking at court cases that involve student media. www.splc.org ...

We’re working on building the master template in yearbook. See the video below on what’s going on in class. During this time, students are also ...

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 Today began our discussion and lessons on journalism ethics.  I have students read “Hacked Heaven” from The New Republic. This is the piece ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...