Articles for the paper

If I asked you for an electronic copy of your article from your newspaper project, please make sure to email it to me soon.

Thanks,
Ms. Sackstein

preferably in google.docs or as a word doc.

Keep sending work

Only a few of you have taken the opportunity to show me what they have been working on. Don't hesitate to ask me to look at your work and give you feedback.

I have a student model if you are having difficulty. Just email me and let me know you need one.

more work for the week

Those of you with Macs at home I encourage you to play around with GarageBand and iMovie during this week. You may even be able to finish your podcast at home this week.

Those of you without Macs, please take a look at some video tutorials so that you are familiar with the software when we get back to school. There are lots of videos all around the web that you can easily find using a search engine, here are some from apple.com:

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#garageband

Work for the week

Since we won't have classes this week, I encourage all of you to rewrite your pieces for the podcasts and for the broadcasts so when we return you can record and beging filming.

Also, you can go on newsu.org and practice some of your writing skills.

You should also listen to some of npr.org's podcasts and do some research of your own.

Feel free to email me and/or post to blog about work that needs to be done. More news to follow.

School Closed Week of May 18th

School will be closed for the week of May 18th.

School will reopen on Tuesday, May 26th.

News story group broadcast

In your groups, select one of the news stories written in the newspaper.

• Make sure your story topic is interesting, timely and fully thought out
• You will need to rewrite your story into a script
• You will shoot footage of your story with a lead in to the story you present
• You will shoot interviews, background, and provide possible music
• You will edit the footage so that there is a cohesive story at least 2 minutes but no longer than 4.

Standards that are used... will be forwarded soon.

Podcast assignment

Select one story from your group newspaper that you wrote.

Rewrite the story to make it ready for radio. Save a copy of the original and the new rewritten one to turn in with the original. The new script should be on top when you turn it in.

You will create a 2-5 minute podcast. (no less than 2 minutes, no more than 5 minutes)

You should consider getting interviews with other people.

Standards addressed will be provided shortly.