Friday, May 15, 2015

Outline

Working Title: Aftermath

Events:
  • High School
  • After School
  • Jobs
  • Responsibilities
  • Struggles
  • Balance

Transitions: The Questions

The Questions:

  1. How would you describe your high school life?
  2. What were you involved in?
  3. What did you like about high school?
  4. What did you hate about high school?
  5. What was your favorite year of high school?
  6. What responsibilities did you have in high school?
  7. In high school, what did you expect of your life after graduation?
  8. What changed?
  9. What do you think you underestimated about life after high school?
  10. What are some (other) struggles you endured?
  11. How did you balance everything out then?
  12. How do you balance everything out now?
  13. If you could would you change your past high school courses, what would you have taken?
  14. What courses weren’t provided during your high school years that you think could have helped for after high school?
  15. After high school did you pursue college?
  16. What are your views on college?
  17. Did you have any jobs during/ after high school?
  18. Did the academia in high school reflect in an actual workplace?
  19. Did you have to calculate the volume of anything?
  20. Did you have to identify stoma at any point of your life?
  21. Do you think today’s students are provided with the information that they will need for the “real world”?
  22. How do you feel about your life after high school so far?
  23. What is your job currently?
  24. Are you in school now?
  25. What do you think is going to happen next in your life?
  26. Do you have any regrets from high school?
  27. What message do you have to high schoolers?
  28. What do you think is most important in life?

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Multimedia Decision

1. What format will your project take? (Audio Story, Video Story, Timeline, Podcast, Infographic)
Video Story

2. What will the story focus on?
The struggles a person I know has gone through ...

3. Post a link to an example of what you want your story to be like.
http://apps.npr.org/teenage-diaries/#amanda

Newspaper Layout




Thursday, April 23, 2015

Front Pages of the World

The Daily Progress
  1. Charlottesville, Virginia
  2. "IRS cuts leave 8M callers hanging"
  3. 5
  4. They all have a header and they all have pictures
  5. They have the articles spread out instead of cluttered.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Newspaper Layout Notes

Broadsheet- rectangular, 2' X 1'
Tabloid- square, 1' X 1'

Parts of a Front Page:

  1. Photos
  2. Headlines
  3. Captions
  4. Stories
  5. Teasers
  6. Screen
  7. Shapes
  8. Flag (name of newspaper)

Folio- bar with info, ex. school, slogan, city, state, volume, date
Byline- Name and Title
Infograpic- picture that gives information
Kicker- says what the article is