Monday, January 12, 2009

Pearl Reporters is here

Your usernames are your first and last names, with a space in between and all in lower case.

Your passwords are their first names.

For instance -
username: bart simpson
password: bart


http://www.pearl.iearn.org/course/login/index.php

Please read modules 1 and 2 tonight - Overview and Journalism: Power with Responsibility
Post comments about your thoughts on the reading here.

This is due tomorrow - Tuesday, 1/13

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that the PEARL reporters is going to help me write better news. I feel that the information I just read was good, because it gave me the information we covered in class and it is a good place for me to look back to when I need help. Having all the information we covered in class in one place is helpful incase I forget something or do not understand something. So over all the PEARL reporters website is going to help me.

-Anastasia Ioannou

Janet said...

I believe that Pearl Reporters will help me to write better news stories. The information I read in 'Journalism: Power with Responsibility' was things we had learned in class. For example, news is based on facts and is objective. This website has really good information and it will help me a lot.

- Janet.

Rosemarie W said...

I think it was kinda boring because we already learned all the stuff about libel that i read on the website. But the stuff about how people from Columbia University are gonna read my work and help me with it, was pretty cool.

Rosemarie w.

Raisa B. said...
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Raisa B. said...

I think that the Pearl reporters website has a lot of helpful information that I can always refer to in case I ever forget anything.

robin o. said...

i think that the PEARL reporters will help me write a better article, and it's a great source to refer back to in the future. I also think that if we are going to use this website that we should be learning new things on here, not just reviewing.

maggie todaro said...

PEARL reporters shows you that there's a type of news for everyone. I believe that this is going to help me write more efficient articles that will be better written. The website also informs you about telling the truth, and how all news must be truthful. PEARL also taught me so far that you really have to pick topics that are interesting to the public and that will appeal to people.

donna said...

i think this pearl reporters program will help me with my understanding in journalism and better my skills. it also will help me write other types of articles, that will appeal to various types of audiences. this is also helful for reference incase i ever need to look back.

Josephine C. said...

I think the Pearl reporters is going to give me a better overview on how news is written and I think it can help me a lot because they have really great examples to refer to on this website. The information I read was okay. Even though we went over it already, it was a good review. But overall, the program is cool.

xbabii1girlx said...

i think pearl reporters shows the principles of cunducting a well written article. news is how the world keeps connected and learn about other cultures and what going on around the world. if the people recieve false news it can heavily impact the dicisions of the public. the job of a journalist is to report the truth and most important facts. this website will greatly help and guide me to write more succesful articles -nadine

Mike D. said...

I believe that pearl reporters will help us in our own news briefs and articles. The site has information on it that will help us better understand not only what it means to be a journalist, but how to become a successful journalist. Having this information will greatly improve our writing abilities.

Mary Bella Torosyan said...

I believe that Pearl Reporters will help me to write better news stories and to improve on what i write about and that it will be more engaging. What I read in Journalism: Power with Responsibility was mostly all the things that you and Mr. Lai have been teaching us in class. Like, news is based on facts and is objective, and that it cannot be biast and that you should state both sides in your article. This website has really good information and it definatly make me a better news writer.

- Mary Torosyan

Avi Solkoff said...

I think that PEARL will better my news carrer and will be a great asset for all in life. Even though we have already done most of the writing and notes in class it is a great evalutaion and re-assessment to what we already know. These skills along with the others that Ms. Sackstein and Mr. Lai have taught me will be great for my Journalistic career.

-Avi Solkoff