Thursday, March 4, 2010

3-4-10 News Stories

You should have your interview answers posted to your blog.

You will write your story in class today. It is due by the beginning of the hour tomorrow. I recommend composing it in Word.

We will do peer edits in class tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

3-3-10 News Stories

Today you should be collecting data and conducting interviews.

Your assignment is to have all interviews completed and all of the interview answers posted to your blog before class begins tomorrow.

Tomorrow you will organize those interviews and write your story. Your story must be posted to the blog before class begins on Friday.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

3-2-10 News Stories

I am in the building teaching Photoshop to other teachers but won't be in class today. Mr. Breuer is covering this class.

For reading time today, read Pulitzer Prize winning articles from the Detroit Free Press:

http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2009-Local-Reporting-Group1

Your assignment today is to write your interview questions for each person on your blog by the end of the hour. You should interview 3 people and ask each at least 5 questions (at least 15 total questions).

Continue collecting data and conducting your interviews.

You will post all of your interview answers to your blog before you come to class on Thursday.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

2-25-10 Advertising

We will finish presenting our ads in class today.

We will wrap up this unit with an activity on magazine advertising.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

2-24-10 Presentations

Present your advertisements to the class.

1. Describe your ad
2. Describe your target audience
3. Describe the magazine where you would purchase advertising space.

We will wrap up this unit on Advertising today and move into writing stories.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

2-23-10 Advertising Work Day

Today is the last day to work on your advertisements in Photoshop. When you are finished, you will save it as a .jpg and post it on your blog.

File/Save As/.jpg choose medium (5) for quality

Create a new post and click the Add Image button.

For format, choose none and click on the Image size medium button.

Tomorrow you will present your ad to the rest of the class by doing the following:

1. Describe your ad and your product.
2. Tell us who your target market would be.
3. Tell us what magazine(s) you would use for your advertisement.

Monday, February 22, 2010

2-22-10 Advertisement Work Day

For reading time today, read www.nytimes.com

Today is a day to work on your advertisements in Photoshop.

Look over the previous day's postings to see the assignment and photoshop tutorials.