Tuesday+July+17

====**Morning Exercise:** Prepare to share your photojournalism stories. Post a new discussion on your Wikispace page asking readers to comment on your the technical, artistic, and/or editorial elements of your story.====

**__Activity__:** Interview a Colleague to Find the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

 * ====Download the Notebook file below to randomly select your interview topic====

**__Activity__:** Writing to a Soundbite

 * ====A key building block of any news story is the excerpt from an interview in which the person who experienced the newsworthy event tells the story. This excerpt is call a sound bite.====
 * ===Sample story===

**__Activity__**: Audio Production, Start to Finish

 * ====Produce an original audio news story. Choose a sound bite from the interview with a colleague, write a script, record narration, and edit all sound in Garageband.====

**__Activity__**: Media Bias
@http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/5069 @http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/dogs_life/index.asp?article=for_dogs An example of Checking for Bias @http://www.laflemm.com/RfT/Practice/RfTPracticeBias3.html
 * Articles on the Iditarod**

**__Activity__**: In Plain English... Breakdown of the Main Points of Controversial Issues are Explained (...in plain English)
In Plain English: @http://www.commoncraft.com/video/electing-us-president

The Flipped Classroom Explained

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