Journalism+Spring+2014



Welcome to Journalism! Students in this class will create content for The Morgan PawPrint, Morgan's digital news source. Questions? Concerns? Contact Mrs. Chausse: lchausse@clintonpublic.net See me in room 43. I am usually in school by 7:00 am.

Use the links on this page to complete your blog entries on a news piece.
 * Sources of News

||  || Journalism Resources

||  Web 2.0 Tools ||  Resources
 * Alan November: Information Literacy

 Bunch Library: Information Literacy  CCSU: What is information literacy ||  || JOURNALISM CLASS BLOG

Journalism Camp || EMAIL THANK YOU NOTES TO staff@morganpawprint.com

Include a link to the article. || Every weekend read the PawPrint. Comment on at least one article.

= Final Exam- three sections =
 * 1) Evaluate your progress as journalist. Consider a specific post from the first quarter (January- March 2014) and contrast this with a specific post from the second quarter (April -June). Explain what the post is about, what you had to do to create the post. Compare the earlier post to the later post. Explain how you improved and advanced.
 * 2) Evaluate The Morgan PawPrint posts for semester 2 of 2014. Choose one post that was created by a classmate. Evaluate the post. Refer to specifics within the post to explain why you admire this post and how you would change or improve the post.
 * 3) Create one last piece for The Morgan PawPrint. Before the exam you must complete interviews, get a featured image and complete all research. During the exam, you will put the post together. Your final post should be ready with a featured image, tags, categories, image within the article, a minimum of three outside sources, hyperlinks, headline and byline. When you finish with this piece during the exam, save it as pending. I will publish the piece after the exam if the piece is in the correct format. [[file:Checklist for Article Drafts.docx]]

Due Thursday June 5 by the end of class-
 * 1) Complete the assignment on the Ethics in Journalism page.
 * 2) Create a log for this week. Share with me. Fill it in for today.
 * 3) Work on your current assignment for the PawPrint.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Friday May 23rd by the end of class <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">- Video news assignment- see <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">JOURNALISM CLASS BLOG for assignment details. Complete this assignment during class. Make certain your log is up to date. If you finish, work on current assignments.

Monday March 17: Presentation <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Journalism Camps: Week Long CT journalism camp <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">High School Investigative Journalism Workshop- Boston Univeristy

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What are You Working On?

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due every Monday <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">- comments on the articles produced this week

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday May 7- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Every student will select a different article written by Evan Lips, a reporter for the New Haven Register. When you choose your article, record your choice on this hat Google Doc table. He will visit on May 19th with our class. Read the article. Briefly summarize the content. Explain what interested you in the article, why it is newsworthy, wEvan had to do to produce the article. Include questions or comments that you have about the contents and the reporting. This blog entry will be shared with the class and will help prepare us for Mr Lips visit to our class on May 19th. Mr. Lips articles Post your blog entry on your edublog.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday April 2- Complete the current events blog entry on local news sources. For assignment details, view Journalism: The Morgan PawPrint blog.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Wednesday March 12- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Contribute to the document for Evan Doolittle's visit.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday March 5- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Complete the current events blog assignment explained on Journalism: The Morgan PawPrint blog. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Tuesday February 11 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> - Create your current events blog on edublogs.org. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Complete the current events blog assignment explained on Journalism: The Morgan PawPrint blog

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday February 3 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">- Comment on at least one of the new articles on the PawPrint.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday January 22- Journalism Opening Survey

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read The Morgan PawPrint! Comment on articles.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">WEEKLY LOG-Each week copy this log. Share it with me. Record your work for the week.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Daily Assignment Board-

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Current Events Assignments are due by the end of the day on the assigned due date-

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday February 11- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Choose an article from the New York Times- national or international news. Complete the Blog entry on your blog. Follow the directions on my blog.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">New York Times ReplicaEdition- Access the New York Times through this site-Username: 200332997 Password: 20033297

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday March 5- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Choose a news piece from a high school online newspaper. Complete the blog entry on your blog. Follow the directions on my blog.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Devil’s Advocate - Coginchaug Regional High School- Durham/Middlefield, CT

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Rambler- Old Saybrook High School- Old Saybrook, CT

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Buzz- Branford High School, Branford, CT

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Paly Voice- Palo Alto High School newspaper

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">FHCTODAY.COM The Central Focus - Francis Howell Central High School St. Charles, MO

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">thefeather.com The Feather -Fresno Christian High School Fresno, CA

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Foothill Dragon Press- Foothill Technology High School Ventura, CA

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Harbinger Online- Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, KA

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday April 2 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">-Choose a news piece from a state newspaper: The Day, The New Haven Register, The Hartford Courant, The Middletown Press. Complete the blog entry on your blog. Follow the directions on my blog. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">New Haven Register <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Middletown Press Clinton Patch Hartford Courant <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The New London Day Harbor News

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday May 7- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Every student will select a different article written by Evan Lips, a reporter for the New Haven Register. When you choose your article, record your choice on this hat <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.349998474121094px;">Google Doc table. He will visit on May 9th with our class. Read the article. Briefly summarize the content. Explain what interested you in the article, why it is newsworthy, w <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Evan had to do to produce the article. Include questions or comments that you have about the contents and the reporting. This blog entry will be shared with the class and will help prepare us for Mr Lips visit to our class on May 19th. Mr. Lips articles Post your blog entry on your edublog.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Choose a news video or audio from a news website: CBS News NBC News ABC News MSNBC CNN News Google News NPR. Follow the directions on my blog.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday May - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Choose a news piece from a news magazine: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">TimeHarper's MagazineThe New RepublicThe New YorkerUS News and World Report

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday May 28- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Choose a news piece from a any source that you have not already used in your news blogs.

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Daily Logs Each day you must fill in a daily log on Google Drive. Share this log with me at lchausse@clintonpublic.net. At the end of each week, you will earn from 0-25 points on your weekly contributions to the PawPrint.

Every weekend- due Monday Read the PawPrint. Leave a minimum of one insightful comment on a recent post created by your classmate.

Blog Entries on News Piece Analysis-
 * Complete 6 blog entries on current events during the semester.
 * Each entry must analyze a different piece from a different news source.
 * One must be a school newspaper from a different school.
 * One must be from a nontraditional news source.
 * The news piece you select to analyze must be dated within three days of your blog entry.
 * Include a link to the news piece in your blog entry.
 * Briefly summarize the contents. Explain why you chose this piece. Analyze the piece for content and journalistic principles.
 * Email me lchausse@clintonpublic.net when you complete your blog entry.

Final Due Date for each blog entry:

New York Times- Page 1 article: