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Things I Have Learned

Patricia Gathright Saint Mary’s Hall San Antonio, Texas

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Make PDFs of pages to use in presentations. When you export, check the box for making spreads.

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Use a digital camera to take pictures of presentations. Try to position photographer so pictures are centered in frame.

Make sure you turn off the fmash so you will not be annoying! Use a tripod for the desktop.

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Find things you like and adapt them to your publications.

Connally High School Newspaper

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Adapt newspaper spreads for yearbook spreads.

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Create a brochure to explain

the kinds of pictures your need
the specifjcs for those pictures
how to get the pictures to you
deadlines for pictures
show some examples of good

and not good

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LIFE formula for visual variety in the photo story

Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach

OVERALL – wide shot to establish the scene MEDIUM – focuses on one activity or group CLOSE-UP or DETAIL – one element, like a person’s hands or intricate part of a building PORTRAIT – a person in his/her environmental setting, or a dramatic tight head shot INTERACTION – people in action or conversing SIGNATURE or THE DECISIVE MOMENT – contains all the key story- telling elements CLINCHER – a closer that summarizes or ends the story

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OVERALL – wide shot to establish the scene Chalk it up

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MEDIUM – focuses on one activity or group Chalk drawing - individual

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CLOSE-UP or DETAIL – one element, like a person’s hands or intricate part of a building Chalk it Up

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PORTRAIT – a person in his/her environmental setting, or a dramatic tight head shot

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INTERACTION – people in action or conversing

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SIGNATURE or THE DECISIVE MOMENT – contains all the key story-telling elements

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CLINCHER – a closer that summarizes or ends the story

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Let’s look at teaching writing

oking at a picture

without a caption is like watching television with the sound turned off .

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success/successful

Many several a lot Some

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Cross Country

fjrst sport girls and boys n e w st art fjrst workout summer schedule midnight

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Graphic Organizer helps get thoughts

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...but then what?

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Writer Rick Bragg says

Fill the boxes with bulleted

lists of information, quotes, statistics and you have an instant

utline.The fjve boxes approach

is the easiest method for quick

rganization of material. Using

the boxes you can select and arrange information, settle on the beginning and ending of the story and decide what the story is about. Armed with this rudimentary

utline, you can fmesh out your
story. It breaks the story into

components that can be devel-

ped and refjned.

The lead contains the image or detail that draws people in the story. New image or detail that resembles a lead precedes the bulk of the narrative Information rounds out the story Leaves the reader with a strong emotion

“Even if you just completely scramble it later on, at least it got you rolling,” Bragg said.

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GROWING Strong

Team grows in both numbers and strength

Bong. Bong. Bong. The

bell in the tower rang 12 times, but the runners on the track heard only the first chime, the signal that they could start their race. It was midnight on August 15, and the cross-country season had

fficially begun.

It was going to be a long

season. Looking ahead to

SPC and evaluating the potential of the team as a whole, Coach Kevin Waters made the decision to design a workout plan for the three months of summer before the season started. Calling all his runners to a meet- ing at the end of school, Coach Waters stressed the importance of being active everyday of the summer. Warning the team that the first workouts of the season would build on an expected level of fitness, Waters handed out the workout schedule with a smile. Three months later, the midnight time trial simul- taneously ended the first weeks of the preseason while beginning the compe- tition season. What really inspired the runners, how- ever, was “the camaraderie, the excitement, the pitch black track and the suspense

f the run” said Annie Hel-

bling (11). After grueling workouts designed to force the runners back into shape, the midnight time trial allowed the team to loosen up and compete for the first varsity spots of the season. Arriving closer to eleven

’clock to allow for warm-up

and pre-meet stretching, the team worked together to pre- pare for the first race of the

season. Supportive parents

milled about the stands, discussing the work their kids had done while keeping a watchful eyes on threaten- ing skies. As the hour ap- proached, the runners toed the line, hoping the chime

f the clock would precede

any claps of thunder. Bong, bong, bong…

Don’t write

a report

Tell them a story

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http://homepage.mac.com/lao4/Education1.html Go to download area for a variety of handouts and power points to use in the classroom. My favorite is the one on revision.

Lori Oglesbee, McKinney High School Mark Murray, Arlington ISD

http://www.aisd.net/murray/ Handouts on PhotoShop and general darkroom procedures.

Texas Association of Journalism Educators

http://www.taje.org

Bradley Wilson, North Carolina State University

http://ncsu.edu/sma/ On the right side of Pages Go to Instructional Materials Handouts

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Revision

Step 1

In a word processing

program, run a word count.

Write that number in the top

right corner of the fjrst page. Step 2

Read it aloud. Mark any

place where you stumble, pause in confusion or have to reread.

Rewrite those sentences.

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Revision

Step 3

Look for summarized or implied dialog.
Rewrite using the actual exchanges said

during the scene. (go to taje.org and click on PowerPoint Library. Scroll down and watch Using Quotations by Deanne Smith)

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Step 4

Circle all the -ly adverbs.
Select a better verb if the adverb enhances.

Keep the adverb if it contradicts the meaning. Step 5

Underline all the verb phrases.
On a separate sheet of paper, list the verbs

straight down the page.

Look for weak verbs and rewrite those sen-
tences. (ing verbs, verbs with lots of helpers, be

verbs)

Revision

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Step 6

Spell check and grammar check with Word.
Check “readability statistics” (Alt F> Word

Options > proofjng > check box for Show Read- ability Statistics). This will tell you what percent- age of your sentences are in passive voice. Aim for less than fjve percent passive voice.

Revision

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Revision

Step 7

Leave the story alone for at least 24 hours.
Read it aloud.
Make any needed changes.

Final Draft

At this point, an edit from another writer is

crucial.

Make those noted corrections.

Now you should have a great story.

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Revision

A Few More Hints

Space once after periods.
Use a style sheet. (see Bradley’s web site)
Take the reader into the moment. No broad,

general statements about teens, life, society or the world.

No question leads. Instead answer the ques-

tion.

Keep verbs in simple present, past or future.

If your main verb has an –ing ending, you’re in the wrong tense.

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Revision

Avoid “there” to begin a sentence.
No indefjnite pronouns: some, many, most.
Never use a lot, working hard, hard work,

several, success.

Don’t use due to. Babies are due, you mean

because.

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Run the Index after each deadline

and before proofs come.

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triding across the amphitheater towards the stage, seniors Isaac Perales and Deveno Hairston slow down to high-fjve eager Montessori

students. After an adrenaline-fjlled morning of blue

decorations and balloon tossing, the seniors hurried to make themselves presentable for the formal Blue Tie

ceremony. Dripping wet with evidences of blue paint

and silly string visible, the seniors walked on stage, ready for the start of the senior year, as everything else began to run together.

Under File Menu > Type > Show Hidden Characters Allows you to see indexed tagged type. If you change the spelling

f a name, you must re-tag the name.

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taje.org

Fall Fiesta 2011 Journalism TEKS, Curriculum Guides Video Library PowerPoint Library Teaching Materials Library Podcasts Journalism-Related RSS Feeds Convergent Media Share and Collaborate Student Advisory Committee Student Advisory Committee Wikispace Journalism Update Journalism Standards Membership Information and Materials Preparation Manual for JournalismTExES Candidates TAJE Awards Contact Us Journalism Education Association Association of Texas Photography Instructors ILPC TAJE Calendar Archives Clip Contests JEA Bookstore Other Journalism Resources Photoshop and InDesign Tutorials

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Favorite books

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Remember, these are tools, not

rules.

Do not try to use them all at once.
You will become handy with these

tools over time.

You already use many of these tools

without knowing it.

How to use this book

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From Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools

#14

Get the name

f the dog

Pay attention to your surroundings. Take everything in and take notes about what you see, hear, smell, feel. Dig for the concrete details that appeal to the senses.

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From Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools

#25

Learn the difference between reports and stories

Use one to render information, the

ther to render experience

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After the sky fell

By BRADY DENNIS Published January 28, 2005 Times photo: Chris Zuppa

The few drivers on this dark, lonely stretch of the Suncoast Parkway in Pasco County pull up to the toll booth, hand their dollars to Lloyd Blair and then speed away. None of them knows why the old man sits here, night after night, working the graveyard shift. Well, here's why: Because years ago, on a freezing winter night at a party in Queens, N.Y., he met a woman named Millie. Because he fell in love with her brown hair and wide eyes and 100-watt smile. Because they got married, moved to Staten Island, had a son and worked for decades in Manhattan; she as an accountant, he as a banker. Because it had been their dream to retire to Florida, and so they saved all their lives to make it possible. Because, just as they began to talk of leaving New York and heading south, she was diagnosed with breast cancer , and they spent their time and money traveling to New Jersey, San Diego and Mexico in search of a cure. Because, in the end, they came to Florida anyway. Because they finally bought a house in Spring Hill, although she was too weak that day to get out of the car. Because she died nine days later on Jan. 5, 2002, a day "the whole sky fell," he says. Because, after she was gone, he found himself alone and $100,000 in debt. And so he took a job collecting tolls. The drivers who pass by see a smiling 71-year-old man with blue eyes and a gray mustache who tells each of them, "Have a great night!" They don't know the rest of Lloyd Blair's story, or that he keeps Millie's picture in his shirt pocket, just under his name tag, just over his heart. Editor's note: 300 Words presents glimpses of everyday life that often go unnoticed.

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From Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools

#26

Use dialogue as a form of action

Dialogue advances narrative; quotes delay it.

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He calls it his empire. At angled mess of cables and cords twisted and turned on the floor of his bedroom. The cords lead to three systems that seemingly dominate the room. Together, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 form the trefecta that makes the current generation of consoles, and senior Craig Kidd owns them all. “I had to work in the blazing sun for 10 hours a day for two months straight building homes in the middle of God know where,” Kidd said. “But in the end, after saving up, trading in iPods, old games and systems, I finally stashed up enough money to slowly but surely buy each system.” Kidd’s collection amounts to just over $3,000. More time than money spent on games, sophomore Patrick Fabela racks up more than 30 hours a week blasting hunters with his sniper rifle in Halo 2. “I play about two and a half hours a day,” Fabela said, “but when I am not playing physically, I can visualize playing the games moving my fingers in the air as if I were holding the controller in my hands. With the 40-plus games I own, it’s easy to lose myself in halo 2 and God of War.” From a burning desire to play to an obsession with topnotch games, junior Isaac Diaz searches for that certain game that will give him everything he is looking for.

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“I could care less how much my systems are worth or how many games I own,” Diaz said. “When it comes to purchasing games and systems, I buy ones that I know will be amazing. Gorgeous graphics, tight gameplay and a story storyline is what attracts me. When I buy games, I always try to remember that price is just a number and for a short while, I leave reality behind.” Kyle Alvarado Burges High School Tops in Texas 2009 Student Life story

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Roy Peter Clark says

Own these writing tools. They now belong to you. Keep them sharp. Share them with others. Add your own. Take pride in your craft. Join a nation of writers. And never forget to get the name of the dog.

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Keep Learning

Never let a day go by that you don’t learn something new.

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Things to Share

Pat Gathright

Saint Mary’s Hall pgathright@smhall.org pgathright@yahoo.com

Dates to Remember October 22-24, 2011

TAJE Fall Convention November 15-18, 2012 JEA/NSPA Convention San Antonio

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