Advice for the Advisers

Teaching Journalism & Yearbook Joyce.feuerborn@sausd.us

https://goo.gl/OvOb48 Slideshare.net: joycefeuerbornJournalism Adviser @ Godinez FHS

Agenda:

● Overview of your class○ Brand your class○ Plan your class○ Materials & support

● Last 15 minutes (1:25?) brainstorm/network in groups

Branding

● Everything starts with the newspaper or “The Book”● Use the name of your paper or

yearbook over multiple platforms○ Grizzly Gazette newspaper ○ Grizzly_Gazette Instagram○ Grizzly Media

Branding cont.

● Grizzly Podcast on YouTube

Branding cont.

● Choose your editors the first week of school but also hold elections in class/club for pres., VP, secretary and treasurer

● Making your class a “club” allows fundraising so equipment and supplies can be purchased

● It also helps the class “bond”

Branding cont.● Our treasurers are so good at fundraising that we buy a

new camera and other equipment including t-shirts for the whole class from funds raisedevery year

Plan: Interviewing

● Week One-Newspaper Basics & Interviewing● Every journalist needs to know three things

to write a good article:○ How to write a good lead○ How to write a good nut graf○ How to interview well-What’s the real story?

Everybody has a story, your job as a reporter is to FIND it.

Plan: Interviewing

● Week One-Newspaper Basics & Interviewing● Here are some activities to learn the basics:

○ Newspaper Scavenger Hunts (In packet)○ Interview and newspaper basics powerpoints (There

are a bunch of great journalism powerpoints on slideshare.net)

○ Here’s one: Journalism Interviewing Skills from Cubreporters.org

Plan: Photography

● Week Two-Photography● Photography is everything in journalism● Every article should have a

photo and/or infographic

Plan: Photography

● Here’s my favorite powerpoint for photography: Photojournalism from Dave Calvert AP

● Here is the assignment powerpoint: 100 Photos, Choose top 3

● Have each student present their top three choices explaining techniques they used

Plan: AP Style

● Week Three-AP Style○ Give them the AP Style cheat sheet (see packet).

Make sure they use this EVERY TIME they write a new article.

○ Scout for a few good copy editors for the year.● Here’s the powerpoint to review and test

their knowledge, use whiteboards and dry erase markers for this one: AP Style Powerpoint

Plan: Broadcasting

● Week Four-Broadcasting 101● I bow down to the expert here which is Don

Goble. He’s on slideshare.net with multiple powerpoints.

● The assignment: Groups of three to four, make a video with a theme. Video checklist worksheet included in your packet.

Plan: Broadcasting

● Here’s an example with the theme of Grizzly Pride using close, medium and wide shots:

Materials & Support

● Week 5 and beyond- formatting and publishing

● Additional activities provided in your packet to keep students focused and on task between newspaper and yearbook assignments.

Materials

● Los Angeles Times in Education delivers 15 newspapers every Thursday to your classroom

● New York Times in Education gives you online subscriptions for the year and emails you the daily paper

● OC Register is also online subscriptions only

Support??

● Feel like you’re the only one at your school?

Support??

● You are not alone. You have multiple organizations and training opportunities to help you:

Support

● JEA fall and spring conferences:○ Nov. 12-15 Orlando○ April 14-17 L.A.!

● CUE in Palm Springs○ March 17-19

● JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas Baby!!!○ Dates not set yet but should be the 2nd week of July

Questions???

● Anyone? Anyone?● Now let’s break out

into yearbook and journalism groups and share out.