Journalism/Yearbook Week 5

Monday Bell Ringer: Take five minutes to finish your theme pages from Friday. IF finished, sit quietly until ready.

Monday Agenda: Newspaper Work Day Go to students.weebly.com Log-in using the credentials I gave you. Take about 5- 10 minutes playing with the site. Create your first blog: what topic will you focus on for your newspaper? When you are finished, click on Publish! Then copy and paste the website address into an email and send it to Mrs. Webster!

Requirements: Today, you will work on whatever you need for your newspaper article. Remember: Due Sept 21st Needs to have a quote from a student & staff member Must have a quote release form signed! Minimum 350 words Answer the 5Ws and 1H Must include a picture or graphic (picture, chart, list, etc) Must upload to your blog site Must provide insightful comments to at least 2 other blogs.

Notes for tomorrow: Wear your DHS Yearbook shirt Be professional and considerate Bring a writing utensil and a notebook for any notes you want to take. I will have a log-in for the yearbook website! You will get it on the bus. DO NOT BE LATE tomorrow. We must leave at 8:15a!

Tuesday: Field Trip

Wednesday Bell Ringer: What was the most helpful part of the field trip yesterday? Any lingering questions?

Wednesday Agenda: Create your own spread. Get a yearbook from Mrs. Webster Log-in to walsworthyearbook.com Pick a page from the yearbook. Reproduce the page the best you can. When finished, please SAVE it and let me know!

Thursday Bell Ringer With the following scenarios, write whether it is allowed or not. A student forgot to take pictures at a soccer game, so she downloads pictures from her friend’s Facebook. A student dies in a car accident. A yearbook photographer goes to the crash scene, where students have put up a memorial with flowers, stuffed animals and school items. To get a better photo, the photographer rearranges the items. A student on your yearbook staff starts an official staff blog to increase your staff’s presence among the school community throughout the year. She routinely discusses some of the coverage for that year’s book as it comes together. In a post about the football team’s less- than-stellar season, she wrote, “If our school had a better coach, maybe we’d win some games. Of course, everyone knows the coach was only hired because he’s the superintendent’s brother.” This is illegal without the written permission of the person who took the picture. This is photo manipulation. You can do it ONLY if you label the image as an illustration, and not as a news photo that that depicts the scene as-is. If you manipulate photos, whether when taking the photo or using a photo-editing software such as Photoshop, you damage your credibility as a publication that delivers the news or event as it happened. This is libel. You cannot call out a person in a negative light without their prior written approval.

Agenda: Bell Ringer Ethics

Yearbooks, the Law and You Because of a miscommunication on your yearbook staff, no one took photos during the state soccer championship game. The photo editor decides to simply download photos from one team member’s personal Facebook page to use on the spread about the soccer team’s amazing season. Another staff member thinks it would be humorous to use a picture of the school gym teacher without her knowledge when creating an ad promoting the new local donut shop. When you produce a yearbook, legal conundrums have a way of finding you.

Today: You will go to the lab and research your study guide. Each group will be responsible for a certain amount of questions. Make sure you fully understand the question/answer. Control + F will help! On Friday, you will share your answers. Look through the PowerPoint on my website to help prepare you for the test. We will plan some activities next Monday and Tuesday. Your Ethics test will be Wednesday! Group 1: 1 – 12 Group 2: 13 – 25 Group 3: 26 – 30

Friday Agenda: You will go to the lab and research your study guide. Each group will be responsible for a certain amount of questions. Make sure you fully understand the question/answer. Control + F will help! On Friday, you will share your answers. Look through the PowerPoint on my website to help prepare you for the test. We will share out on Monday and have an activity Tuesday. Your Ethics test will be Wednesday! Group 1: 1 – 12 Group 2: 13 – 25 Group 3: 26 – 30