Special Report Teams

Teams are assigned as follows:

Relief Road:  Janesa, Winter and Jorge Ramirez
New School: Eduardo, Jorge Cisneros, Natalie, Carlos
PARCC: Nydia, Eric, Ivan & Killian

Meet in teams to elect a Producer who will determine schedule, lead the group in activities, coordinate with Ms. Thomas and assign jobs.

Determine your 1st 3 activities to begin your report.  Make a calendar, add in these activities, and report to Ms. Thomas 5 minutes before the end of class.

Friday, January 16th

Topic Research: Special Report

Today you'll complete, print and submit the Word file you started yesterday by doing the following:

• Review the previous post on the blog about the 3 Special Reports.  We are covering PARCC Testing, The New K-8 School next door, & The Traffic Relief Road for AHAHS.
• Everyone will work on a Special Report under the leads for those stories.  Choose the topic that you are most interested in out of the 3.
• After you've chosen your topic, begin online research to answer the following questions about your topic.  Write your answers on your Word file under the title of your Topic.  I expect to see about 2 paragraphs (10 sentences minimum) of content in your responses.

  COPY AND PASTE the URL (web address) of every resource that you decide to use into your Word file!!! A good journalist ALWAYS cites their sources.

• Who are the people most important to this story (the key players and decision makers)?  Think local first, but don't forget about city, state and legislative personnel who may be involved.  Who is affected (either in a positive or negative way) by this issue?
• What is the Big Question or Issue around this topic that's important to your Audience?
• When did this topic become a news item, is there something significant happening in the near future (FIND SPECIFIC DATES in news articles online!), or a year from now?
• Where is this issue having the most impact? 
• Why is this an issue for your audience and/or our local community?  Are there multiple reasons? 

Here are some resources to get you started, but don't rely only on these. Find your own too!:

• Traffic Trouble at Atrisco 
• Changes to traffic at AHAHS 
• New Pre-K through 8th School on Southwest Mesa
• New K-8 school breaks ground 
• Official PARCC Site
• PARCC Pro's and Con's

Assignments for Spring 2015

Thanks for your ideas and input about how to make our show better than ever this semester!  A special thanks to those of you who followed through and actually emailed a Job Request to me.  Those who did not....well, I went ahead and assigned you a job.  'Cause that's what happens in the real world.  HERE WE GO!:

• Interactive Ent./News/Social Media: Janesa Tena
• Interview/Spec. Guest Coordinator: Eduardo Puentes
• Special Reports Team Leads: Natalie Ortiz, Jorge Cisneros, Carlos Caraveo
• Commercials: Eric Sanchez
• Silly Segment: Winter Cleland
• Jag Gallery: Killian Hoose
• Volunteers/Assistants/Editors: Jorge Ramirez, Ivan Nunez, Nydia Gutierrez

NOW comes the tough part:  Creating a Job Description that outlines your Responsibilities and Tasks, including how you think you should be graded.  You'll type this in Word and submit it to me by Thursday.