If your school is thinking updating its policies (whether you have a NEOLA policy or not), you might find this NEOLA link interesting. NEOLA has released a ton of policies over the last decade, and most having anything to do with student publications have been very restrictive. Now, finally, they offer some alternatives, including a [...]
For my 300-word feature story assignment last night, I interviewed my daughter–a tech-savvy kid who wants to go into journalism. I told her as part of the assignment I had to make two sidebars, and I was just going to do it on InDesign because it would be easier. She got excited (she says [...]
Not the best video skills, I’ll admit. But I was impressed by how easy it was to learn to edit video and create something I can use to show my students how to begin to create video stories.
I remember the stress of looking for my colleague Scot the evening he disappeared for a while. He left the school. Quite a while later his wife began calling others in the school who would likely have worked as late as Scot. The Middle School Music teacher and her husband began a search along his [...]
This was very difficult for me to edit to 300 words. I originally had it at 750 and to me it holds more weight at that length. This was originally a project for a writing course I took with Bobby Hawthorne. I have struggled with this for some time and it was time to be [...]
300 word story- alligator sanctuary
Judi Henckel’s 300 word story
I’ve driven past it a million times since it’s only a mile from my home. My journalism students have written stories about it at least three times in the past two years. I have seen pictures of the inside, the outside, and the occupants- both human and [...]
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