Feb. 18 - Scholastic Journialism Week -- we need to make our site AWESOME!

So . . . where are we?

We have bought a new program that works with our website to make it better for our mobile phones.

All staff members need to update their staff bios. Look at the way they are done at the A-Blast or the Foothill Dragon Press. Don't give too much personal info away.

Send a small paragraph about yourself to newfrontierinbox.com.

You have two days to get your sound slide finished. DEADLINE IS BEGINNING OF CLASS THURSDAY.

MS. GREER
Silver Spring, Md.

Feb. 10 - Assignment

You have a sound/slide assignment. This is individual. It is designed to get you out in the building documenting life here at Kennedy.

Tell your editors what you plan to cover after discussing so it can be posted on the board today.

Each photo should be really good in telling us more about the people or event you are covering.

Here are some great examples.

We will teach you how to do the audio in Hindenburg if you don't know how yet.

The project will be loaded onto Vimeo or YouTube for the paper.

You will each tweet out your link to your project so we can build page views.

This is going to be awesome.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

Feb. 6 - Assignments for the next two days

ALL GOOD REPORTERS KEEP UP WITH THE NEWS. THAT IS YOUR TASK.

You will cruise around in these sites looking for what you think are important stories. You all know about The New York Times and The Washington Post as good sources for news.
But there are others. Especially from people who may have a different perspective. THEY WILL MAKE YOU A BETTER REPORTER.

Here are the links to some of them:

Click here for the BBC.

Click here for the German and mid-European perspective.

Click here for The Guardian (they are the ones who have brought us much of the info from Mr. Snowden, the NSA leaker.

Click here for alternative news.

Click here for news from the Middle East.

Click here for another source of news that Bill Moyers claims he is dependent upon.

Then you will write a current events quiz of 10 questions.
NOTE: ANYONE WHO COPIES DOING THIS WILL GET A ZERO.
I will be taking your test when I get back on Monday.
Turn your quiz into the sub before the end of the period on Friday. 20 pts. formative. Any question I miss you get an additional point.
BUT THE QUIZ MUST BE REASONABLE TO GET THE POINT.

Additionally, you will look for one of these stories and tie it up with a local reaction to it. You must interview students, teachers and other stakeholders in the story. Your job is to research that and have a plan of attack. Write that up and turn into Mr. Brewer before send of day on Friday. Begin your reporting leg work on the story asap. 20 points formative.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

Feb 3 - Things to check out and keep in your arsenal of journalistic/storytelling tools

So here is a list of excellent videos from Canada on photography. Check out this group of videos. Choose three and write up three paragraphs (paragraph for each video) of what you learned from them.

Turn in on sheet of paper today.

Formative: 15 points

Your other stories are due to newfrontierinbox@gmail.com for their first edit.

30 points formative.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

Jan. 27 -

So, check out this two-minute link about telling visual stories. This link is about a photographer, now videographer, for The Baltimore Sun who has had to change up his skills. He has some very interesting things for you to think about as he covers an anime festival here in Maryland.

Today you are going to get your assignment paper and have a staff photo taken.

Jan. 24 -- Today we organize

The above is Keegan talking with PBS for their show on privacy and the web over Google Hangout yesterday.

TODAY, our first piece of business is to work on our organization.

We will review the jobs together. We will accept a job if we are pressed into service and do the best that we can. (Reminder that colleges will see that you worked on the newspaper and they love that. BUT remember that they will be able to see what you have done so be proud and careful with your work).

We will take staff pictures and write a small bio for the web site. Keep it kind of general with no really personal info. Remember, it will be online.

We will go over what you think are our newspaper's weaknesses. Then we will try to address them.

We will start our current event quizzes next week. They will be different that television productions and posed a little differently.

Ms. Greer

Silver Spring, Md.

January 2 - One last STORY before the exam - PLUS - CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ TOMORROW

You need to do another news story before next Wednesday.

Today, you need to look at all current events. YOU HAVE A QUIZ TOMORROW. Check out the weather. Check out resolutions for this next year. Pippin. Any other mural plans with Mr. Kirk?

Do you have any sports stories? Will you cover a game?

Your paper. Your grade.

I hope you want to do a good job of it for its own sake.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.