Journalism 2

Daily Assignments and Activities

J2: Week of May 24-28

This week in J2

Today: Start writing your Hoofprint.net story and working on that whole thing.

Work on creating stuff for your project.

Tomorrow: (Sra. Fitzgerald)

Work on your project.

There is no blog this week.

What’s due?

1. Your outline. It’s done.

2. An note/list for the teacher. Order of events.

3. A folder with original copies of handouts, articles, and activities.

4. An explanation of activities with any materials needed. This should be in your folder.

When is it due?

A copy of everything is due on Friday.

You will conference with me about your plan and review all materials with classmates on Monday of next week.

Use your time well.

J2: Week of April 26-30

Articles and Examples

• Augsburg program where students don’t receive grades
• Teacher punished for praising top grades in class

Article/Photo Essay 2 -  What they saved from the fire (photo essay).

• Time – “What they Saved From a Fire” (article only)
• Time – “What they saved from the fire” (Article w/ Pictures)
• What they saved from the fire – PowerPoint of images

Article 3: Los Angeles Times – A deadly hush in Room 211 — then the killer returned

Week of April 19-23

Monday

We started the hour by talking about how to Engage Learners by designing interactions.

After that, we talked about when things would be due and how things would be graded.

Tuesday

While we shipped The Hoofprint, you had time to work and prep for your Final Project.

Wednesday

Today’s agenda:

1. The Wednesday group should publish today, and Francie too.

2. Your blog is due Sunday, so get to work finding a story. If you record the story and want help uploading it, I’ll be happy to help on Monday.

3. You need to start getting an outline of your final project. The document for doing this is online.

Make a copy of this document for each concept you signed up for.

Begin working on your concept sheet on Google Docs. The concept sheet should be done by Friday. You don’t have to have your things made by Friday, but the concept sheet should be done.

Thursday

I’m gone doing Technology today all day. Mrs. Tierney is your sub. She’ll help you design great stuff for J1.

Thursday group, Publish Today!

Don’t forget your blog!

Friday

Your concept outline Google Doc should be done by the end of the block. It will give you a clear outline of what you need to do next week. I’ll leave feedback over the weekend, so be sure it’s back in the J2 Folder in Google Docs.

Your Blog is due on Sunday.

J2: Week of April 12-16

Monday:

We’re back to our “normal” schedule. There’s a new blog on J2 Blogs that’s due this Sunday. You will be publishing in your new groups.

We started today by looking at some items in the news about the news. These things should help with your blogs for the week.

1. Google develops a formula that will decide what news you see
2. YouTube has officially broken the barrier of 24-hours of video being uploaded every minute.
3. The effect Citizen Journalism has and will have on our culture.

After looking at these three items, you had work time for two things:

1. Review the feedback that you received on your second draft of your story. Make changes and make a final draft by Wednesday at the end of the block. This is a major assignment.
2. Finish and polish your secondary coverage or quick read that goes with your Ideal School Story.

Tuesday

You had today to work toward finishing all your assignments for the week. Your layout and story are due by the end of class tomorrow.

Wednesday

Due by the end of the hour today:

• Your story should be FINAL. The editors are putting the paper together tonight, and your story should be 100% final and ready to go.
• You should make a blog post that includes your secondary coverage idea as a.jpg file and write a brief reflection on both your story and your layout. The reflection can be done from home, but your picture should be online and your story needs to be final. We will move on tomorrow.

If you’re done, take time to work on Hoofprint.net or your blog.

Thursday

Reminders:

We started the day talking about Blog ideas, and we watched a really interesting  Interview from the Colbert Report that illustrated the concept of the Wise Fool we blogged about perfectly and also showed the story behind the WikiLeaks story we looked at on Monday. It’s a fantastic Interview. Thanks, Alex, for mentioning it.

After that, we voted for what the final project of this class will be. After an original vote narrowing down six options to two, we had a final vote between re-imagining The Hoofprint as a magazine or making things for the Journalism 1 classes next year. The second option won.

Tomorrow, we’ll start planning out how this project will work, who will work on different aspects of it, when it will be due and how/when it will be graded. The goal is to have a complete outline of the project by Tuesday of next week.

After that, you had work time.

Friday

We started the block by brainstorming the concepts from Journalism 1 that you felt were most important. The screen is embedded below.

Here’s the screen!

You guys came up with an OUTSTANDING list of concepts.

In good instructional design, a teacher picks a concept that they want students to attain first and then designs activities and interactions that lead a student toward attaining that concept. We’ll look at this method more in the upcoming days.

The list that you came up with is on this Google Doc. Use the document to sign up for what you want to do. Put your name or the name of the people in your group under the concept(s) you want to tackle.

The rest of the day is for you to use for blogging or Hoofprint.net.

J2: Week of March 8-12

Monday

This is a day to tie up loose ends and get ahead.

1. Is your blog updated and does it have the Wordle?
   1. Don’t forget about your self-evaluation
   2. Is your 30-minute challenge on there with a reflection?
2. Did you publish last week
   1. If not, get a story online today.
3. Do you have an idea for your story this week and have you started reporting?

Tuesday

1. Check your grade on Portal for any missing assignments
2. Check j2blogs.com for the blog post this week.
3. An clip from This American Life
4. A math quiz
5. Work time
6. Homework or end of class: an article about survival – “What it takes to survive?”

J2: Week of March 1-5

Monday:

1. Publish your Google Doc presentation and embed it in your blog.

2. Write a reflection to go with it and publish it.

• Write about what you did, the things you learned along the way, what you think you did well, and what areas you still have for improvement.
• What would you do differently if you could do it again?
• How can it be applied to future projects.

3. Make a Wordle.net from your Blog, publish it, and include it in your blog. Save this post as a draft. You’ll use it later this week in your blog post.

4. Work with your partner on publishing and get stories started.

5. Self-evaluate your blog and then work on making up anything that’s missing.

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Tuesday

We began the block by looking at an article about America’s changing news consumption habits.

Next, we got an InDesign refresher. We’re going to have a design challenge on Friday, so pay attention today!

Finally, we watched one more episode of emThis American Life/em. We’ll pick which one we watch as a class today.

Wednesday

We went over dsome additional skills in InDesign at the start of the block.

1. Text wrap
2. Drop shadow and other effects
3. Corner options
4. Rule lines and color/width
5. The eyedropper color tool

Take time during class to practice these skills. You’ll be evaluated on these skills and more on Friday.

Next, we watched (either in whole or in part) an in-depth discussion on the rise of digital content distribution and the way it’s impacting traditional publishing. This directly relates to the blog question for the week.

Next, you had class time to find sources for your blog, work on your blogs, or publish on hoofprint.net

Thursday

We began the block watching the last 10 minutes of the video we started yesterday.

After that, we learned a couple more skills in InDesign in preparation for our Design Challenge on Friday.

1. Drop and Initial caps
2. Hyphenation
3. Working with fonts and characters
4. Columns
5. Exporting spreads as pictures

After that, you had time to work on publishing and blogging.

Friday

1. A headline (actual text)
2. A subhead (actual text, and a complementary font to the headline)
3. A story (approx. 300-350 words in placeholder text)
4. Drop caps or leading effects with the story.
5. At least three photos of varying shapes and sizes.
6. One color pulled from a picture and used somewhere on the spread (eyedropper tool).
7. Captions that go with each picture.
8. Use at least one rule line or colored box.
9. At least one “effect” added to a picture, rule line, box, or copy block.
10. Rounded corners, drop shadow, embossing, beveling, inner glow, gradient, etc.
11. Exported as a jpeg and put on your blog as a thumbnail.

Today, you had time to play with the program and follow the tutorials about InDesign in The Knowledge Base.

J2: Day 17

We looked a few examples of resources that can help you in your planning of your newspaper of the future project. These articles show the importance of Social Media in directing web traffic and reporting the news.

Facebook now directs more traffic online than Google

BBC urges journalists to embrace Social Media

Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Journalism

Next, we looked at The Future of Journalism and saw the conclusions drawn by the group about how good Journalism can survive the digital age.

After looking at and discussing these examples, we either watched a This American Life clip or had time to work in groups.

J2: Day 16

We watched and discussed this really, really fascinating video. Please evaluate your project based on this new information.

J2: Day 15

Here’s today’s agenda:

1. We looked at some fantastic examples of blogs. I left comments for everyone, graded blogs, and updated the grade book. Try to make your blogs look more like the examples we looked at today.

2. Publication Groups time. Next week is the last week we’ll publish in groups, so plan ahead and know what you’re doing.

3. We learned how to set up and share a presentation on Google Docs that you’ll use for your group Newspaper of the Future projects.

4. You had time to work in your project groups.

** Don’t forget to check your grade and check out the new blog post for the week.

Story ideas for you, if you’re stuck.

Hey people. Here are my ideas for stories – use them if you want.

1. The exchange student from Japan is presenting during AAA in Strassburg’s room. Go there, interview, and take a picture.

2. There’s a dance on Friday (2-12) for Snow Daze. It seems to be something that mostly underclassmen are attending – good thing to examine.

3.  The BHM staff showcase is next Friday (2-19). This is getting bigger each week.

4. Snow Daze activity results and reaction each day.

5. Sports scores and results.

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