When grading photo assignments, just like anything else, I often find it a difficult task. Having a rubric can be a big help. I focused my rubric on those things that I really want the photographer to do: take the pictures, write captions, save the files and create a contact sheet.
Feel free to adjust this [...]
I hate grading. It is the bane of nearly every teacher. Many years ago a student showed me the need to have a rubric when grading written assignments, yearbook layouts or even photographs. Today I’m posting my yearbook layout rubric. This rubric focuses on what I feel is important. Following design rules, spelling, grammar, timeliness [...]
I don’t think this poor girl was really prepared for this interview. I also don’t think they really practiced how to read or understand the on camera director’s signals.
Mr. C
This week I took seven of my students to a yearbook camp at Texas A&M University in College Station. It was a great experience in spite of the fact that A&M does not offer a journalism or communications major.
But the real attraction of camp is the final day. All the hard work for four days [...]
Today we head off to yearbook camp. Composing the yearbook ladder is always one of those fun tasks that must be done. Here’s a template file to make that go easier.
Yearbook Ladder (Excel File)
Mr. C
What should a student VJ pack for their every day use? I’m going on the theory that your school is like mine, and you don’t have all the money in the world to spend. Here is what I consider the minimum to shoot good video.
-Canon ZR800 Mini DV Camcorder: For under [...]
My apologies to Robert Fulghum, who wrote the most excellent book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten from which this post is based. It didn’t make my book list the other day, but should have.
Yearbook publishing can be complicated stuff, but much of what makes a good staff member isn’t [...]
This is a companion piece to yesterday’s post about keeping your room clean and germ reduced. Students (and you) will get ill and have accidents. It is a fact of life. Most of these accidents are of the very minor kind. Since journalists work with paper and sometimes scissors, this usually [...]
As a media/journalism teacher, you will be with your kids more hours a day than nearly anyone else will. I routinely get to school at 6:30 am and leave around 4:30 pm. During most of that time there are students there, and where there are students – there is mess. What is [...]
This is a blog for journalism teachers. Today I will stress the TEACHER part. If you are still new to teaching (five years or less of experience), then these books are for you.
The First Days of School: By Harry Wong. This is a book that every first year teacher should read [...]
