After working on writing and developing good stories for the first couple days of MIPA camp, the Writing and Designing the Newspaper class is taking a new approach to journalism: designing. Most of the students in the class have little to no experience with the application and the class today will teach them how to create and layout a page of their own. They began with paper … [Read more...] about Writing and Designing the Newspaper students work with InDesign
Students work with angles in their feature stories
In Writing and Designing the Newspaper, students are experimenting with angles. Each student is required to take the information they gathered from the seminar offered last night and transform it into a feature story. “We are taking our news stories we wrote last night and turning them into feature stories, therefore it has more of a human element to it,” teacher Jody Mackey … [Read more...] about Students work with angles in their feature stories
Students find crash-course journalism in Writing & Designing the Newspaper
Students looking for an introduction into the world of journalism started day one of the class Writing & Designing the Newspaper, taught by Jody Mackey. Mackey, advisor for the yearbook and the video program at Traverse City East Middle School, hopes for the students to experience their initial “splash” into journalism, specifically learning the basics of interviewing, … [Read more...] about Students find crash-course journalism in Writing & Designing the Newspaper