Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by tmchale
This article talks about a girl who sent nude photos to her boyfriend through her camera phone. After the couple broke up, her boyfriend sent these photos around the school, mortifying the girl. As a result, the girl ended up committing suicide, unable to cope with the taunting.
Sending photos of this nature has been deemed with the term ‘sexting.’ This issue could easily be replicated at Hunterdon Central if people aren’t careful.
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by tmchale
I am writing a profile story about a student at Central who was born with a heart condition. Her condition makes it difficult to get around the school to her classes and she regularly has to visit the school nurse. I’m not sure which angle to use with my story though. I could solely focus on the hardships she has to go through every day just to make it through school or I could focus on how she doesn’t let her condition get in her way of doing the things she loves. Or I could use both, focus on the hardships but give examples of how she overcomes them to do other activities. Which angle would be the most appealing to the reader?
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by tmchale
Aaron and Hilary Anderson, a couple from Colorado, recently used a special procedure to examine the genes of their child Ava Anderson, who is only 13 months old. Using the procedure, the parents were able to look at the future athletic potential of Ava, and discovered that she is built to become a “power athlete with the steady engine of a marathoner.” Many coaches, therapists, and genetic experts are worried that parents might misuse this data and that the procedure will only add even more pressure and politics into childhood sports.
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by tmchale
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html
I found this site useful because it can give you and gave me good cold hard facts. The site has alot of interesting facts about the american people, population, huosing, business, governement, and maps. This is a trusted site because it is put out by the governemen and is updated often. The United States Census Bureau, who put out this site takes censusus often, and would be a good place to find if you want facts about the united states and its people and given information.
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by tmchale
http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Students/Students.cfm?id=17
I found this web site extremey useful. For kids who are condisering studying journalism more than just what they’re doing in high school, it gives you a list of colleges that offer communications (journalism) programs and tells you whether its an accredited program. For those who aren’t quite sure what that is, it tells you exactly what makes a communications program accredited, and gives you the pros and cons of an accredited program vs. a non-accredited program.
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by tmchale
Q. I know that your story should have an angle. But my question is: Can your story start with one angle and then transition to another angle that is similar to the one that you started out with?
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by tmchale
This was very interesting to me. Photojournalism is a form of journalism shown through pictures in order to create a story. It is very interesting and if you like photography you would be very well interested in this. For a resource website and list of schools that offer Photojournalism programs you can click here to be taken to the NPPA (National Press Photographers Association) website. Another interesting part of the site would be the public discussion boards. These are very helpful to any students interested in photojournalism looking for others who are interested or for feedback on their own work. The discussion board is located here. It also has local workshops where students could go to learn more about photojournalism or meet others who like the same thing.
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Posted on March 20th, 2009 by tmchale
Yesterday, Valerie Streit from CNN wrote a story about how the recession is squeezing recycling programs. In Atlanta, Georgia people are putting out their recycling to be picked up and it is not getting picked up.
Citizens are being forced to house their recycling in their garages and/or driving it themselves to the recycling drop off center. The price of recyclable material is nationally decreasing.
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Posted on March 19th, 2009 by tmchale
CNN reported on the tragic incident with Natasha Richardson. She fell and hit her head on a beginner’s slop. No one thought it was serious, but when Richardson returned to her room, she was complaining about head pain and was rushed to a hospital. She eventually died from the injury.
This will probably raise some concerns at high schools, especially for sports.
- Will there be more concern about a student getting even just the slightest bump on the head during school?
- What will be done with helmets for contact sports?
- Will more protective head gear be provided?
- How can one know if a minor head injury will turn fatal?
Graffagnino, director of Duke University mentioned “A patient can appear so deceivingly normal at first.”
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Posted on March 15th, 2009 by tmchale
This time of year, it can sometimes seem like all of the good story ideas have already been used. At least that’s the refrain I often hear from my students.
I tell them that good reporters are also consumers of news, but they read with an eye for potential story ideas. This where RSS feeds can be useful. Almost all online newspapers (and an increasing number of student newspapers) produce a feed which can be subscribed to through a news aggregator, My Yahoo or
iGoogle.
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