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Use Track Changes
If you did not use track changes on your rewrites. If you didn’t, I can’t grade your piece. Thank.
EMB & JOU
From here on out, I will neither grade — nor inform you — if you send me your files saved in the incorrect format.
We have covered how you turn in files. It is on the site.
Consider yourself warned.
EMB 265: 5 & 6
Here are your assignments for Friday:
- Airport Taxis (5)
- Kickapoo Drought (6)
JOU: Saving Your Stories
Hey all:
Please save your first story in this format:
- lastname.bus/event/meeting.draft1
You will then get an edit from me which saved like this:
- lastname.biz.draft1.bk
You will then turn in a second draft that is saved like this:
- lastname.biz.draft2
You will then get an edit from me that is saved like this:
- lastname.biz.draft2.bk
Your final draft will be turned in AS A HARD COPY, FINAL DRAFT ON TOP (That’s the one I’m grading) with the edits below that, your original copy below that and your pitch on the bottom.
I grade the top copy — so if you mess it up, I’ll be grading an unfinished product and there is no changing your grade at that point. If you have questions, ask before you turn something in.
Why do I do that? Because if you’re a journalist and send an incomplete product on to the edit desk and something happens, you could end up publishing the wrong work. You need to be aware of what you are doing.
Always.
If you have questions, let me know.
Friday: The Verdict Is…
Everyone turned in their work. I thought the discussion was okay. So it’s a work day on Friday. You have all the assignments. They are due at the end of your class time. Not late. Save them correctly or you will receive no credit.
I’ll post the revised class schedule and readings later on today.
The Importance of Stories and Media
Please take a few moments and watch the video of a woman who paints the portraits of fallen soldiers — at no charge and for no reason — so the families may have something to remember their sons and daughters.
EMB 265/JOU 220 Assignments
Friday assignments:JOU 220:
- Pitch 2
EMB 265:
- DrugRV (26-32 seconds)
- Low Water Levels (26-32 seconds)
Side Note: Please make sure you do all the readings. We will have to conversation scenarios in the next class. I will start on one side of the room and move through the scenarios. I will expect responses that are — in some way — tied to the readings.
Readings for both JOU 220 and EMB 265:
- SPJ Code of Ethics
- Independent Investigation of Michelle Delio at Technology Review
- How the News Media Ought to Cover the Pre-Presidential Primary Campaign
- Confessions of an Alienated Journalist
- Decoding Moral Values
JOU 220: All Pitches Returned
If you don’t have it, let me know. Everything is sent back.
In-Class Readings for Wed, May 21
Hey all:
Here are your readings. Tips to think about when you’re reading. I want the discussion not to be a regurgitation of what you’ve read, but questions, thoughts, ideas you disagree with, concepts that don’t make sense and how you have applied what you’re reading (or might apply it).
Make notes. Jot down thoughts.
Critical thinking and mastery learning only take place when you grab the data and wrestle with it. Don’t afraid to be “wrong”. Be afraid of being passive.
EMB 265
- Interviewing
- Plagiarizing
- Broadcast News Writing
- In a Digital Age, Journalism Students Need Business (fyi, Paul Grabowicz is my mentor; I was in the class discussed in this article. You can still completely disagree with anything you read. Lord knows he and I fight all the time. You would be doing him a favor by giving me the grief I gave him.
JOU 220
- Interviewing
- Plagiarizing
- Online Journalism
- In a Digital Age, Journalism Students Need Business (fyi, Paul Grabowicz is my mentor; I was in the class discussed in this article. You can still completely disagree with anything you read. Lord knows he and I fight all the time. You would be doing him a favor by giving me the grief I gave him.
Friday, May 30
There was some confusion about class times, so I’ll address it here.
We will meet this Wednesday, May 21 and Friday, May 23 will be a work day with scheduled assignments due.
Monday, May 26 is a holiday. There is no class. We will meet Wednesday, May 28.
Friday, May 30 would normally be our out of class work day. Since we are off on Monday, that is not promised. The only way we will meet outside of class is if EVERYONE in both classes finish all of the assigned work, participate in discussions and turns in the proficiency exams turned in.
If one person in either class does not, we will hold class that day. This is a game called the Prisoner’s Dilemma. You are only responsible for yourself, but your actions will effect everyone else.
How will you respond?
If we have class, I will identify the people who failed to fulfill their end of the educational bargain. I encourage you to encourage each other.
Again:
- All homework must be turned in by Wednesday, May 28
- All proficiency exams must be turned in by Wednesday, May 28 (not passed, but turned in)
- All readings must be completed, which includes participating in class discussion
If someone skips class without notifying me, that will constitute a failed assignment/discussion — and we will have class.
Questions? If so, please leave a comment here. Otherwise, you have your marching orders. I will answer questions; however, I will not negotiate on these points.