This is a cool site with resources for desktop publishing, web design and photography – it is called Before & After magazine. There are three free downloads on their front page including a really cool one about colors. I also like the way they distribute their magazine in both print and PDF formats. [...]
As I previously mentioned, I was a Boy Scout, so I always believe in preparation. Delivery day is no different. Check, check and double check – then give out the books and have a good time.
1. Look over the book before you give it out. Look at every page when the [...]
On any really important assignment – Be Prepared. Today, our school conducted a car crash reenactment called Shattered Dreams. This event took about six weeks to plan and we not only were responsible for capturing images and video for our TV show, magazine and web site – but also for the second day of the [...]
Every summer I take my yearbook staff and my photographers to a summer workshop. We usually call it summer camp. For most of those years we have gone to one hosted by our yearbook company at Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Tx. This year it was moved to Texas A&M. Needless to say it should [...]
The Poynter Institute http://poynter.org/
ASNE’s High School Page http://www.highschooljournalism.org/
RTND’s High School Page http://www.hsbj.org/
Journalism Educators Assoc. http://www.jea.org/
National Scholastic Press Assoc. http://www.studentpress.org/nspa/index.html
Columbia Scholastic Press Assoc. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/
Quill & Scroll Honor Society http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Equill-sc/
Student Press Law Center http://www.splc.org/
Newseum Interactive Museum of News http://www.newseum.org/
NewsU Online News University http://www.newsu.org/
CNN Education Page http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/
In honor of Earth Day, here are some tips on things we have done to make our newsroom / classroom / lab more eco-friendly.
1. Recycle your toner. Our school has a central toner recycling secretary. We just have to drop them off when they are empty. Save your original boxes too. [...]
Here in Houston a nearby high school recently had its own mini news story. A student was killed and two others injured when a 20-year-old drunk driver hit the SUV they were in, killing the 18-year-old student.
Like VT, the media covered the event as a news story, but they also covered the aftermath too. [...]
I couldn’t find anything on the internet about the Golden Mean – actually, I couldn’t find a good power point or video – so I made my own. It is not really even a lesson, but a short mini lesson for photographers or video journalists.
Mr. C
http://teachj.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/the-golden-mean.ppt
It is odd that I now have another newspaper to laminate to add to my horrific collection at school. It includes the Challenger disaster, the first Gulf War declared, Princess Diana’s funeral, OJ Simpson declared not guilty, 9/11, Columbine, and now Virginia Tech. But the real reason for this post is that my [...]
This year, we moved our school news newspaper from a printed tabloid to an all-online magazine. And it wasn’t that hard.
OK, first some background. The school has never had a strong newspaper. The paper has changed it’s masthead more than most people change clothes in a week. Advertiser support was almost [...]
