Saturday, September 13, 2008

Gearing Up

So far, my students have been learning some of the fundamentals of journalsim without using any computers. Pens and paper; that's all they've used. That's because we've been working on developing a news sense--an awareness of what news is, what types of events are newsworthy, both in school and in the world around us, and how we can "compartmentalize" that news into topic areas or reporters' beats.

Next week, all of that will change.

On Monday, my students will walk into a class room equipped with high-performance PCs, fully loaded for modern-day journalism. These desktop computers have two different types of audio and video editing software: both the Adobe Creative Suite, which gives them a full range of programs (from Audition, to Premiere Pro, to Photoshop)--and the professional-grade AVID program.

Now, all we have to do is develop the best stories, the best photos, the best radio reports and the best video reports that we can.

Look out, world! Here we come.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

And awaaaaaaaay we go!!!

I'm now a fulltime teacher at McKinley Tech High School! Mass Media is where it's at and I'm excited to be working with two great colleagues. We've got a lot of great plans in the works, so stay tuned. . .