Brookside Gardens story

How to light holiday lights

Look for patterns -- same and different

Soundslide from NYTIMES

How can we use this on the paper?  What themes can we show that will illuminate the community we are in?  Faces at lunch?  People playing music?  Students working on hands-on projects?  This is what we need to show to our readers.

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School

Current Affairs Quiz - November 6

Do this

http://www.mystudiyo.com/act97882/mini/go/news_quiz_nov._1,_2009

Email score to:

JOanna_G_Greer@mcpsmd.org

Connecting with social media . . . blogging

blog blog blog

Ted Conference again . . . what is the importance of blogging?  Evolution?  Record of who you are?  Records of others or their interests?
Listen to one of the founders of blogging.  She is funny, too.  How will we use this technology for our newspaper?

Ms. Greer
Kennedy High School

MediaCom Presentation

here we gooooooo

• This video was a rough work on MediaCom for middle school counselors
• Think of it as a bell and whistle powerpoint presentation (not a powpt fan).  
• I talked as this played.  
• Enough said.

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School

Tell your community stories . . .

Tribal Radio  gets local  and who knew about the heavy metal adulation by the youth on the rez?

Plus, radio is more intimate than tv or movies.  It is like this storyteller is right here making eye contact and saying . . .  we lean in to listen.

 By the way this little figurine is really old, museum quality.  I will try to remember the details, but I when I saw it I was struck by how ancient and powerful story is.

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School

Stories that seem stupid but make you smile and empathize

Bad cakes

Anything can be a story if it shows a back story.  This makes you wonder about the laughing and the "oh no" moments when the icing artists were caught.  Remember these people are professionals . . . don't try this at home.  ;0)

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School

How long is too long for a slide show?

Is this too long?

Image found on Ms. Snowder's whiteboard.

This character wants to know if 2:00 minutes for a slide show is the maximum or can you stay with this piece longer than that?

What makes this piece compelling?  Or not?

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School

This is our aim

Photographer Will Yurman has wonderful slide shows

Please explore this site, particularly the work section.  He has done so much good work.  Soak it in and think about his sequential stills . . . how one photo flows into the next, examine the quality of the image, and listen to how important good audio is to transport you.

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School

Slide show winner

Take a moment and look at the complexity of this web site.  We have much work to do

Being a Black Man

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School

Get rid of shakes here, all tripod haters!

Missing a photo  is not cool.

Click here for suggestion  . . . Cheap tripod help

This is how you do it . . .

Click here for the solo stand-up with one camera

So . . . you are alone, just like this guy and you have a job to do.  He has one truck; sadly, you have one camera.  He has lots of logs; fortunately, you have lots of facts and info.  Watch the video and read the text on how to do backpack journalism by your lonesome.

Ms. Greer

Kennedy High School

Journalism all by itself

The tools for this class are represented here.  But the biggest thing you will need is your intelligence and your curiosity.  Telling the stories of our school community is a noble effort.  You are doing noble work.  Remember that.

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School