This year I’ve been working hard on a bold experiment – put the kids in charge. And the results have been great. The fruits just keep on coming.
My yearbook staff is hitting their first deadline. We were set back a little by Hurricane Ike, but we’re working hard to make a comeback. Today several of [...]
This site rocks! It may be only about a month old, but Stuff Journalists Like is fun! It is so true and a great way for embattled and embittered journalists to laugh at themselves. Yes, we like Press Passes, Free Swag and Coffee – it is part of what we do and why it is [...]
I recently recieved a comment that said I should check out a indy documentary called “Chalk.” This movie is not what I would call inspiring. It is a great “what not to do” movie.
Nothing that happens in the classrooms of the school in the movie seems unreal or out of the question. Many of the [...]
Thanks to the THSPA for linking to my site on their THSPA Tips. It is a great resource. Just in the first couple of posts I have already found several great resources that I didn’t know about. THSPA really volunteers a lot of information. (Sorry I had to go there with a pun on your [...]
The guys over at TNTJ have a blog post idea – and a good one it is too; tell us your dream job in journalism.
Sometimes I think I already have my dream job, except for being able to do journalism myself. I am a high school journalism teacher, as you may already know if you [...]
To start off my cool link bonanza, I’m going to recommend watching this short video about what an RSS Reader is and how to use one. Like a lot of people, it took me a while to “get” RSS and then use it. Then I had to learn again how to use it right. Short [...]
As an alumnus of Angelo State, just a little more than an hour to the south of Abilene Christian University, I find it very hard to say nice things about our rivals to the north. But today, I have no choice. ACU’s Student Media News Lab looks like they are well under way to being [...]
Now most photographers would not consider this beautiful, but this photographer took apart his broken 85mm lens. Very cool inside.
The title may be a little bit flippant, but the photos definately have historical value. This is one of the six reasons that we take photos in my photojournalism class. We take photos for historical value.
The pictures were taken by an editor at Science Services (magazine?) during the famous “Scopes Monkey Trial.” The photos are [...]
After an extended, unintentional vacation (aka Ike) – we are back into prodcution on the yearbook, newspaper and broadcast show. And the kids are taking initiative themselves. My main goal this year has been to enable the kids to become their own boss. They run the show.
And after some initial skepitism on both of our [...]
