Memories...

Rather than begin another cycle of news with Team A, we're going to post our favorite holiday memories, activities, foods, gifts.  For this assignment, you'll need to:

• Give a little insight to who you are with your submission
• Be descriptive and specific
• News Team A will be due this Friday 12/9
• News Team B will be due the following Friday 12/16
• Shoot a photo that is appropriate for your piece

This Week in Journalism...

We will be:

• learning our PointerNews Staff assignments
• taking on our first story assignments
• beginning to explore the publication cycle format of PointerNews
• working on our Staff Bios

As your Monday Warm-Up, review the Staff Bios link above and prepare a Google Doc - properly titled.

Welcome to Journalism!

Week 1 - Embarking on an Adventure
This week we'll be discussing a variety of topics including:

• An overview of the class and what to expect
• Jobs available at Pointer News
• Getting to know Google Applications (if you don't know them already)
• Your first asSINEment

Come prepared to learn, work and have fun!

“Journalism is the first rough draft of history.”

 

Okay, so I'm out today...

You could be working on one of several things today:

• drafting your pre-write or pre-production plans
• These are due by the end of the period tomorrow
• finishing your schooltube.com worksheet assignment
• finalizing last cycle's piece for publication
• reviewing the new multimedia sections on the class blog
• Multimedia Resources -->
• Multimedia Inspiration Samples -->
• investigating our MAC software
• iMovie
• iPhoto
• Garage Band

Just like our old Week 1...

So our pre-write and story fleshing out week is over.  Hopefully, you got most of what you needed for a great story.  Now we get down to business - writing.  We missed out on Monday so it may seem like it's happening fast, but tonight rough drafts are due for those publishing this week.  Which means photos are due tomorrow and final drafts are due Thursday.  Be sure you've shared your pieces to Carley and your section editor.  Looking forward to a great week!

A fresh start...

This begins our first official 3-week cycle. 

• Week 1 - Monday - prewrites are due by 8pm and story development is expected throughout
                  the week.  Schedule interviews, make contacts, research information, etc.  Also,
                  follow-up from last week's work - any need to see me to finalize multimedia.
  
• Week 2 - Tuesday - rough drafts due by 8pm for those publishing in round 1
                 Wednesday - photo/multimedia due by 8pm
                 Thursday - final drafts due by 8pm
  
• Week 3 - Tuesday - rough drafts due by 8pm for those publishing in round 2
                 Wednesday - photo/multimedia due by 8pm
                 Thursday - final drafts due by 8pm

You have lots of time to develop a story.  I shouldn't be hearing that you don't have what you need on the dates they are due.  If you have issues, you need to communicate about them ASAP.

 

Our First Week 3

Okay so this week will work just like our previous "Week 2" of publication set up did.  However, we do have an unusual issue.  We don't have school on Friday so let's see what we can bang out before then.  For technicality sake, rough drafts are due on Tuesday, photos Wednesday and final drafts Thursday.

Let's keep the momentum going.  You guys rock!

Ahhh...a fresh new start.

It's a new semester so we'll be treading into some new territory.  This week we'll be finishing up our final first semester cycle and putting our POAs into actual action.
Monday

• New lab log in protocol and new seating assignments
• Rough draft development
• Committee meetings and progress share out

Tuesday

• Rough draft development continued
• Committee meetings and progress share ou

Wednesday

• Rough draft review
• Photo/Mulitmedia development

Thursday

• Rough draft review continued
• Modified upload procedure

Friday

• Publish
• New story assignment

Seriously??? Yes, seriously.

This week is clean up and fresh ideas development week.  Since next week marks the end of the first semester as an online news site, we'll be taking stock and reflecting on our successes while looking to the future and planning for our next phases.
Tuesday - Proofreading/Editing Hunt & Final Publishing
Wednesday - Reflecting & New Ideas Development Day
Thursday - New Ideas continued and New Story Ideas
Friday - New story assignments - Prewriting due Monday

And We're Back!

Welcome back from break and Happy New Year!
Monday - New, fresh story ideas needed.  Story assignment day.  New poll.
                 Review editor's hierarchy of communication.
Tuesday -  Review prewriting.
Wednesday - Photo credits and captions.
Thursday - Rough draft review.
Friday - Sub: work on writing pieces and/or publish.