Procedures Day

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 groups. Groups read aloud story samples from www.therideronline.com. Then they went over a basic feature outline.

Yearbook

Editors role-played interviewing as a game then went over interview tips.

Feature Writing Outline

All workflow can be found here.

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Shattered Glass

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

Speed Dating

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

Procedures Day

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

Interviewing Games

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

Birthday Celebration

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