tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131085203019119222024-03-07T21:51:48.220-06:00That Pioneer SpiritReflections on the creation, the writing of The Spirit of the Pioneer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-78912852555875192622009-10-19T09:51:00.003-05:002009-10-19T10:02:50.433-05:00Deadline Day!Please complete your pages today and leave me a note below on your progress before the bell today.<br /><br />PICTURES: You may place photos by clicking <strong>File: Place....find where you photo is...click</strong>. You do <strong>not</strong> have to use <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ImagePlacer</span>!<br /><br />I need grades for you! You need grades for you! Do you have final copy of these assignments in the correct folder? They go on last nine week's grade!<br /><ol><li>All your assigned stories (feature, clubs, sports, editorial, and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">entertainment</span> page) in the correct folder in the October Newspaper File.</li><li>Completed page</li><li>Famous Historical Journalist Presentation: this should be in your reporter folder on the N: Drive. Please plan to present on Friday!</li></ol><p>REMINDER: Leave a comment below about today's progress!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-68216629461163551652009-10-05T13:42:00.000-05:002009-10-05T13:43:12.054-05:00Opinions, please!<a href="http://mrsginfo.pbworks.com/Editorials">Please go here </a>to learn about editorial writing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-57423377344241252072009-09-18T20:56:00.002-05:002009-09-18T20:59:40.173-05:00Just Got to Say...<a href="http://www.gradinggirl.com/archives/2082">Click here </a>to see how many ways one can say...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-65024045575159000642009-09-17T00:23:00.002-05:002009-09-17T00:28:06.239-05:00Gillmore Cafe Choices!Please take some time today to research your historical journalist. Remember to save the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">URL's</span> to your sources!<br /><br />Remember your goal is to create a PowerPoint presentation to aide in your presentation. Please limit the number of words on a slide...few to none! Use pictures, phrases, charts, graphs. This is not something your viewers are to sit and read; it's purpose is to simply aide in our understanding of your journalist.<br /><br />Please check with your "people" to see if they have completed your interview questions. Goal: to create a hard-copy newspaper next week! <br /><br />Ready to be published authors?<br /><br />Please leave me a comment with any questions or concerns.<br /><br />You are great! Thanks!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-73110783171144620712009-09-15T12:50:00.002-05:002009-09-15T12:53:39.866-05:00Sept. 15: Questions! Questions! Questions!Today....let's first work on interview questions on our new club and sports stories.<br /><ol><li>Write questions for several people for each story.</li><li>Print and disperse (either via email or by hand-delivering.</li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-41640745975574211822009-09-02T11:54:00.006-05:002009-09-02T12:07:16.387-05:00September 3: A Historical PerspectiveToday, we need to spend some time<br /><ol><li>completing feature stories. Type! Type! Type!<br /></li><li>creating masthead...be creative! I have placed some links to a few <a href="http://mrsginfo.pbworks.com/Pioneer-Mascots">Pioneer mascots here</a>.<br /></li><li>reading PowerPoints (<a href="http://mrsginfo.pbworks.com/Spirit-of-the-Pioneer">click here to access them</a>) about the history of journalism. Click on the first three links. Read! Read! Read! We will discuss these on Friday. Be ready!<br /></li><li><a href="http://cafenewspaper.wikispaces.com/Features">embedding your leads here</a>. Thanks, Chelsea and Destiny, for linking your leads!</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-89552493281911488032009-08-31T12:53:00.002-05:002009-08-31T13:03:45.021-05:00August 31: Work DayToday, I have to leave a little early...about 2:00. My daughter Holly is sick, and I need to take her to the doctor.<br /><br />Hopefully, your interview questions are returning! Yes? No? Please let me know if I need to email anyone and "gently" remind them the importance of their returning the questions.<br /><br />As you begin composing your leads, are there others you should interview? If so, prepare those questions and plan to deliver them today. On <a href="http://cafenewspaper.wikispaces.com/Features">Cafe Newspaper</a>, two reporters linked their links from Thursday's class. If you are not quite finished, you may use some of today's time working on those.<br /><br />Please plan to also include plenty of quotes throughout your feature. For a review of quotation marks, <a href="http://mrsginfo.pbworks.com/Feature-Stories">please click here</a> and work through the last three links.<br /><br />Now, think about which question you want to ask your featured person...going "LIVE!" Today, you may spend some time "playing" with a flip video camera. <br /><ul><li>When is your interview scheduled? You may leave me a comment below when you have a date and time. Thanks!</li></ul>Remember, we have two-ongoing assignments:<br /><ol><li>New Masthead Competition! <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Deadline</strong></span> this Friday, Sept. 4!</li><li>Research your famous historical journalist.</li></ol><p>Plenty to do! Busy! Busy! Busy! ~~ Type! Type! Type!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-28869310320916424932009-08-27T09:43:00.003-05:002009-08-27T14:06:51.566-05:00Are the Results In?Great job on interview questions...I have already received one sent back in my mailbox...hoping you have heard from yours in your email...?<br /><br />Your <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">assignment</span> now:<br /><ol><li>Read your interview questions. Decide your angle. Develop your lead.</li><li>Set up your "live" interview! Practice with the flip video cameras.</li></ol><p>Other t0-do jobs:</p><ol><li>Research your historical journalist.</li><li>Create a masthead for the competition.</li></ol><p>Busy! Busy! Now...go type! Type! Type!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-24854039239913478702009-08-25T10:34:00.004-05:002009-08-25T12:39:36.738-05:00Let's Get Started!Thanks for joining the newspaper class!<br /><br />So far, <strong>your assignments are</strong>...<br /><ol><li><a href="http://cafenewspaper.wikispaces.com/Famous+Historical+Journalists">Famous historical journalist</a>.</li><li><a href="http://cafenewspaper.wikispaces.com/BHS+Spirit+of+the+Pioneer+Masthead">Masthead contest</a>.</li><li><a href="http://mrsginfo.pbworks.com/Feature-Stories">Feature story</a>.</li><li>Read the information about the <a href="http://mrsginfo.pbworks.com/Spirit-of-the-Pioneer">history of journalism and the 1st Amendment</a>.</li></ol><p>Today, we need to discuss the <a href="http://mrsginfo.pbworks.com/Inverted-Pyramid">inverted pyramid </a>and create and distribute your interview questions.</p><p><strong>Upcoming Deadlines:</strong></p><ul><li>Masthead: September 3</li><li>Feature Story: September 3</li><li>Famous Historical Journalist: 2nd Nine Weeks</li></ul><p>Let's go to work!<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-25657846334773550192009-05-25T21:50:00.002-05:002009-05-25T21:56:57.464-05:00The DelimmaPlagued by unprinted papers...if nothing else, that was a pretty good use of alliteration!<br /><br />Update your pages with what you can...we will work on this on Wednesday afternoon.<br /><br />When finished, yes, study for those tests you have tomorrow!<br /><br />Good luck!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-10973349693216940152009-04-22T22:50:00.002-05:002009-04-22T22:56:00.871-05:00Thoughts on Freedom?Please work on this assignment during class on Friday, April 24:<br /><ol><li><a href="http://mrsginfo.pbwiki.com/Spirit+of+the+Pioneer">Click here to go to class wiki (Mrs. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Gillmore's</span> Info)</a> and preview the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">PowerPoints</span> concerning the 1st Amendment.</li><li>Now draft an editorial in Word stating your views of this amendment within our schools.</li><li>Finally, <a href="http://justthink.pbwiki.com/Editorials">click here to go to the Think Tank </a>and upload your editorial.</li></ol><p>For those attending Prom tonight...enjoy...and be safe!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-29406567741105156952009-04-16T11:22:00.004-05:002009-04-16T13:01:20.149-05:00The Latest in Gillmore-Land!I am out again today...thanks, I can hear those disappointed moans and groans all the way from here!<br /><br />My stepson broke his ankle (very bad break) Tuesday evening and will have his surgery tomorrow at Arkansas Children's Hospital.<br /><br />What might we work on today?<br /><ul><li><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">PowerPoints</span>: I heard from Mr. Clint. Sadly, he thinks your files are permanently gone. I am sorry! I truly know the feeling on a greatly magnified level...remember when I lost everything on my external <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">hard drive</span>...and had no backups? Total boo hoo!</li><li>Today, if finished with your <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">PowerPoints</span>, view the other reporters <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">PowerPoints</span>. Then click on that reporter's name and leave unique comments or ask questions to stimulate some dialogue concerning this journalist on that reporter's page. First type your name; then the comment. Don't you just love technology?</li><li>Reporters, please check comments...and respond!</li><li>Stories? PLEASE email the stories going in this paper and save your "new" stories for the next paper. I did not get the next paper's pages put in a file...sorry! (Those family emergencies!)</li><li>Questions? Please leave me a comment or send me an email. I will read them and respond.</li></ul><p>As always, you are awesome, and I appreciate you!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-80984012688653444652009-04-08T10:04:00.003-05:002009-04-08T10:18:14.384-05:00Write, Write...and Write Some More!Good afternoon, Ladies and Gent!<br /><br />Once again I am away from the classroom. Today's hat that I have on is entitle "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Praxis</span> III Assessor," which simply means that I am assessing a new teacher so that she might obtain her "real" teacher's license.<br /><br />While I am away...please work on the following:<br /><ol><li>Starting Friday, three of you will present per day your assigned journalist. Please respond in the comment section below and let me know which three will be presenting on Friday...thanks!</li><li>Let's get back in vocab mode...list three for Friday. Okay?</li><li>Write those stories! Need Quiz Bowl today! Please email me that story! Just received a photo of them competing this past weekend.</li><li>Swim story needed! Have photos we can use</li><li>Who's writing the track story? Anyone? Have photos...need story about recent meets and trophies they have received.</li><li>Other stories needed! Still have some space in this paper...hope to print on Friday afternoon!</li><li>So, yes! Write, write...and then write some more! Will have next paper's pages ready for you to begin placing to on Friday.</li></ol><p>Hope everyone is having a grand day! Enjoy! Please leave me a comment below so I'll know that you read this blog post!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-62478473716726822552009-03-30T23:35:00.003-05:002009-03-30T23:46:02.199-05:00While the Teacher Is Away...No, you may not play! Sorry, we must make more progress!<br /><br />Paper will go to print on Friday. We will bind on Monday and then distribute. Okay?<br /><br />Please do not make any changes to the newspaper pages as I have the final layouts with me. Need to make a change? Please email me the information or leave me a comment here.<br /><br />In the meantime...<br /><ol><li>Work on your stories. Be a pest...bug your interviewees!</li><li>Finalize both of your journalist presentations. You will present both of them next week in the order of age, with the oldest <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">journalist</span> being presented first.</li><li>Let's create a printable Public Service Announcement/advertisement (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">PSA</span>). Each of you should choose a different topic. <a href="http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=15">Check here for a list of topics</a>. Might peruse the <em>Batesville Guard</em> or other newspaper for such advertisements for layout and content suggestions.</li></ol><p>Thanks for all you do!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-43554385704510833102009-01-18T20:50:00.002-06:002009-01-18T20:57:35.854-06:00Challenge after Challenge!Despite the server being down and little computer access the past two weeks, we will publish!<br /><br />To-Do List:<br /><ol><li>Continue interviewing.</li><li>Begin writing the stories.</li><li>Plan your layouts.</li><li>Print and pubish.</li><li>Celebrate!</li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-23895855471343115612008-11-20T14:51:00.001-06:002008-11-20T14:53:26.121-06:00Thankful for Deadlines?One more class and then Thanksgiving Break!<br /><br />May we complete this newspaper and send to print while we take a break and enjoy turkey?<br /><br />Remember to print your page today!<br /><br />Please <a href="http://treasures.edublogs.org/2008/11/15/to-capitalize-or-not/">read here </a>where I blogged about you!<br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-65474708353507467692008-11-09T20:57:00.004-06:002008-11-09T21:05:21.864-06:00Layout TipsOur goal this week is to layout our first newspaper. Good news! We have more stories than we need in some areas!<br /><br />Reminder: Write those sports stories!<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;">Tips to Consider:</span></strong><br /><ul><li>Make sure your headline has a strong, active verb.</li><li>Byline is the first line of each story.</li><li>Remember to justify your stories.</li><li>Proof!</li><li>Proof one more time!</li></ul><p><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Photo Questions:</strong></span></p><ul><li>Which story will have the dominant photo?</li><li>Has the picture been taken?</li><li>No? Let's make plans!</li></ul><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"><strong>Advertisements:</strong></span></p><ul><li>Study ad layouts in other newspapers.</li><li>Create your assigned advertisements.</li><li>Check the contracts to ensure you include all that was requested.</li></ul><p><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">New stories?</span></strong></p><ul><li>Yes, it is time to begin work on the next batch of stories!</li><li>I will make assignments on Monday.</li></ul><p>I hope you have a grand week!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-82763866909701216552008-10-09T22:32:00.003-05:002008-10-09T22:38:49.665-05:00National Newspaper WeekUh, oh! We have almost missed this week-long event! That's right...this week is National Newspaper Week (October 5-11).<br /><br />So, who's to say we can't celebrate <span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>National Newspaper Week</strong></span> next week? Talk amongst yourselves and develop a plan to promote <em>The Spirit of the Pioneer</em>. A poster? A banner? An announcement? A jingle? A dance of eight (yes, that's how many reporters we have!) in the Commons?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.kypress.com/nnwkit/">Click here </a>to access some resources. Then leave me a comment here as to what you decide.<br /><br />Now read the next post to see what else I left for you to do!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-11976572046607183762008-10-09T12:41:00.010-05:002008-10-09T22:43:51.104-05:00Just Your Opinion Please!Okay, I want your opinion...based on the facts, of course!<br /><br />As you know, I am not here today (Friday, Oct. 10)....I am at a meeting in Little Rock.<br /><br />Please accomplish this today:<br /><ol><li>Write an editorial (yes, give me your opinion!) on the candidate of your choice for President of the United States using facts, statistics, and research to back your opinion. If you research the candidate, plan to hyperlink to your source(s) or directly refer to the source within your editorial.</li><li>Complete the corrections on your "main news" and "sports" stories. Place those final stories within your "Final Stories" file.</li><li>Sports story drafts are due today.</li><li>When all this is completed, you may "play" with your Indesign hard-copy newspaper page.</li><li>Lilly, your story is to interview all the senior Homecoming maids and write a feature on them. Please read the next blog entry on writing interview questions. When you have your interview questions ready, ask one of the other reporters to go with you to Mrs. Diane's office to find out where these girls are and deliver your questions.</li></ol><p>Please view the <a href="http://bhspioneerspirit.wordpress.com/">online newspaper</a>. Halli is now a published author!</p><p>Keep up the good work! We will publish the rest of you next week!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-56269241270068184492008-08-23T10:39:00.006-05:002008-08-26T14:01:51.165-05:00Asking the Right QuestionsThe BHS reporters have their first assigned story: a feature story.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Note to a non-class reader of this blog</span></strong>: Have a suggestion for a feature? Please hit the comment button so that we might discuss your recommendation or stop by room 16.<br /><br />I decided to start with this type of story for two reasons:<br /><br /><ol><li>Increases comfort levels in this class to be able to talk with someone you know. Just a good place to start the journalistic learning process.</li><li>Having a database of features makes good filler also! Sorry...just a touch of realilty there for those of us who understand the dreaded "d" word...yes, that's it...DEADLINE! (That will definitely be another blog topic later on!)</li></ol><p>Now to the interviews...<strong>please remember these tips</strong>:</p><ol><li>Ask open-ended questions. "Yes" or "no" answers do not make for a very long story!</li><li>Should you ask a "yes" or "no" question, tag on a "Why? or "Why not?"</li><li>Compose six-to-eight questions. Do not ask so many questions that the interviewee has to spend a grand amount of time on this but enough, of course, that you have adequate information for your story to have some depth.</li><li>Leave ample space for answering these questions. (Due to time-constraints, many of our "interviews" are conducted by leaving questions in teachers' mailboxes or by asking the student to return the interviews within a day or two).</li><li><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Note to teachers</strong></span>: Please return interviews as quickly as possible...remember these reporters' grades depend on the information they receive!</li><li>Complete the list of questions by giving the interviewee a chance to add any other comments or thoughts.</li></ol><p>Again...thanks for your energy and your sincere dedication that I can already see shining brightly within this class! You are all definite keepers!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-66678516151555047342008-08-20T21:38:00.003-05:002008-08-20T21:44:58.239-05:00The New Additions Have ArrivedSince our last class meeting, our numbers have grown by two! I am very excited about the dynamics of this class! <br /><br />Today, we debated, discussed, and then selected our first round of honored BHS persons to be featured in at least one of our three upcoming publications. The assignment was to then to take their assigned person(s) and develop a slant (or two or three) for us to deliberate on when we next meet on Friday.<br /><br />Only two days of class...and, oh, the progress, we have made. Just ask them!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213108520301911922.post-56326031128171332462008-08-18T23:29:00.000-05:002008-08-18T23:35:47.898-05:00The EnergyThanks to the six young ladies enrolled in the newspaper class...I have very high hopes of obtaining our goals to publish, publish, publish!<br /><br />The <em>Spirit of the Pioneer</em>, Batesville High School's newspaper, will be published in three formats this year...wow!<br /><ol><li>Online at <a href="http://bhspioneerspirit.wordpress.com/">bhspioneerspirit.wordpress.com</a>: to be updated as stories are completed</li><li>E-newsletter...hopefully bi-weekly</li><li>In the "old-fashion" format...hard-copy (too many skills skipped if this method is not also utilized)</li></ol><p>Here's to the six who will make this all happen! Thanks for being a part of this staff!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0