2010Draft

Stop the Presses: An Introduction
PowerPoint presentation [|StopPresses09.ppt]

Online collaboration: Our Course Wiki

 * Please edit your teacher page to practice using Wikis!

Check Your Facts: Evaluating Information

 * Continue on to the Endangered Species Challenge Activity!

Social Media: Voicethread

 * Connect to our [|Voicethread]

Research Activity: Life of a Reporter
===Video Conferencing / Video Interview with Drew Levinson ===

Revisiting Reading and Responding through Blogs
[|Stop the Presses blog]

===Audio Journalism: Telling stories through audio files === Project: Create a mock live news report (appx :30-:60 long)

===Here in Scarsdale, about two dozen spectators are gazing upwards with delight at a rare sight. Hugging a branch high in this large elm is a rare creature -- the northwest spotted tree octopus. This endangered animal is far from its native western home. And how it got here is anyone's guess.===

===SOT -- I thought these things pretty much stayed in Oregon. I guess he wanted to see the rest of the country.===

SOT -- I've never seen one up close before. It's beautiful. Just beautiful.
===The Bronx Zoo is sending handlers to take this northwest spotted tree octopus into protective custody. On the corner of Post and Ferncliff... this is Paul Tomizawa.===

Be Mindful of the following: Where is this event? What is happening? Whose voice can add insight to this story? What's next?

Write for the ear 1. Be brief (toss out extraneous words & ideas) 2. Promote imagery 3. Simple ideas, Simple language 4. Breathe: easy to read script, relaxed pace

We will be ordering in from Katzenberg Deli if you are interested. Click the link below to open the menu! Type your order onto your wikispace with the following info: Your Name & Your order [|ScarsdaleMenu.pdf]

=Wednesday, July 22=

 Newswriting 101
Writing Tips [|Writing Tips.ppt]

__Rewriting a Script from NY Local television news__ On Tuesday night two Jersey City officers were injured during an altercation that ended with a woman who allegedly attacked them with a knife being gunned down. //(This report ran during the 11pm news on a Tuesday. The purpose of the "Tuesday night" reference// // is probably so that the same story can run during the Wednesday morning newscast. But most important, this first sentence is awkward since it was probably not the "knife being gunned down" as suggested.) //

It's the same department that just lost another officer in a shootout. // ("It's" is vague. Unclear to what "It's" is referring) //

Neighbors said inside the second floor apartment the television had been blaring all day but some sort of fight // (it was either a fight or not a fight, not "some sort of fight") // started Tuesday night. A heavy set //("heavy set" is subjective and not relevant)// woman who lives in apartment 2C allegedly came to the door with a knife when police arrived around 9:15 p.m. Police said she lunged and stabbed one of the officers.

A neighbor described to * (news team name) what the incident sounded like.

"I heard screaming … boom, boom, boom," Bella Cortland said.

The woman and both officers were taken away by ambulance and Jersey City residents //(all of them?)// stood and watched, beginning to worry about what seems to be a deepening spiral of violence // (a "deepening spiral of violence" is subjective and apparently based on the opinion of one resident, not to mention sensational) .//

"I have kids. I've been here 20 years and this is the worst year yet," resident Grisselle Negron said.

Please stay with* and *.com for more on this developing story.

 Final Project Work
===Blog Response - respond to the Bruce Hall letter on media bias ===

[|Stop the presses blog]