Things I Have

LearnedPatricia GathrightSaint Mary’s Hall

San Antonio, Texas

Make a PDF of an InDesign document instead of a Power Point.

Just Write

Yearbook copy is an

important element in page design.

If you show a presentation on a computer which does not have the some fonts as your presentation, you get slides that are unreadable and ugly. You can also show your presentation on any computer-- Mac or PC.

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

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 flash so you will not be annoying!

Use a tripod for the desktop.

Find things you like and adapt them to your publications.

Connally High School Newspaper

Adapt newspaper spreads for yearbook spreads.

Create a brochure to explain

• the kinds of pictures your need • the specifics for those pictures • how to get the pictures to you • deadlines for pictures • show some examples of good and not good

LIFE formula for visual variety in the photo storyPhotojournalism: 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

OVERALL – wide shot to establish the scene

Chalk it up

MEDIUM – focuses on one activity or group

Chalk drawing - individual

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

Chalk it Up

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

Let’s look at teaching writing

ooking at a picture

without a caption is like

watching television with

the sound turned off .

L NEVERUse these words

hard workor worked

success/successful Many

severala lot

Some

Cross Country

first sport

girls and boysnew start

first workout

summer schedule

midnight

out of town

nine meets

Graphic Organizer helps get thoughts on paper ...but then what?

PracticeSummer

Coach WatersTower sound

weeklyrecord

worksout

hot weather

Writer Rick Bragg says Fill the boxes with bulleted lists of information, quotes, sta-tistics and you have an instant outline.The five boxes approach is the easiest method for quick organization 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 outline, you can flesh out your story. It breaks the story into components that can be devel-oped and refined.

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.

GROWING StrongTeam 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 officially 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 of the run” said Annie Hel-bling (11). After grueling workouts designed to force the run-ners 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 o’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 of the clock would precede any claps of thunder. Bong, bong, bong…

Don’t write a reportTell them a story

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 fa-vorite is the one on revision.

Lori Oglesbee, McKinney High School

Mark Murray, Arlington ISDhttp://www.aisd.net/murray/ Handouts on PhotoShop and general darkroom procedures.

Texas Association of Journalism Educatorshttp://www.taje.org

Bradley Wilson, North Carolina State Universityhttp://ncsu.edu/sma/ On the right side of PagesGo to Instructional MaterialsHandouts

Revision Step 1 •Inawordprocessingprogram,runawordcount. •Writethatnumberinthetoprightcornerofthefirstpage. Step 2 •Readitaloud.Markanyplacewhereyoustumble,pauseinconfusionorhavetoreread. •Rewritethosesentences.

RevisionStep 3 •Lookforsummarizedorimplieddialog. •Rewriteusingtheactualexchangessaidduringthescene.(go to taje.org and click on PowerPoint Library. Scroll down and watch Using Quotations by Deanne Smith)

Step 4 •Circleallthe-lyadverbs. •Selectabetterverbiftheadverbenhances.Keep the adverb if it contradicts the meaning. Step 5 •Underlinealltheverbphrases. •Onaseparatesheetofpaper,listtheverbsstraightdownthepage. •Lookforweakverbsandrewritethosesen-tences.(ingverbs,verbswithlotsofhelpers,beverbs)

Revision

Step 6 •SpellcheckandgrammarcheckwithWord. •Check“readabilitystatistics”(AltF>WordOptions>proofing>checkboxforShowRead-abilityStatistics).Thiswilltellyouwhatpercent-ageofyoursentencesareinpassivevoice.Aimforlessthanfivepercentpassivevoice.

Revision

Revision Step 7 •Leavethestoryaloneforatleast24hours. •Readitaloud. •Makeanyneededchanges. Final Draft •Atthispoint,aneditfromanotherwriteriscrucial. •Makethosenotedcorrections.

Now you should have a great story.

Revision A Few More Hints •Spaceonceafterperiods. •Useastylesheet.(see Bradley’s web site) •Takethereaderintothemoment.Nobroad,generalstatementsaboutteens,life,societyortheworld. •Noquestionleads.Insteadanswertheques-tion. •Keepverbsinsimplepresent,pastorfuture.Ifyourmainverbhasan–ingending,you’reinthewrongtense.

Revision •Avoid“there”tobeginasentence. •Noindefinitepronouns:some,many,most. •Neverusea lot, working hard, hard work, several, success. •Don’tusedueto.Babiesaredue,youmeanbecause.

Run the Index after each deadline

and before proofs come.

Stridingacrosstheamphitheatertowardsthestage,seniorsIsaacPeralesandDevenoHairstonslowdowntohigh-fiveeagerMontessori

students.Afteranadrenaline-filledmorningofbluedecorationsandballoontossing,theseniorshurriedtomakethemselvespresentablefortheformalBlueTieceremony.Drippingwetwithevidencesofbluepaintandsillystringvisible,theseniorswalkedonstage,readyforthestartofthesenioryear,aseverythingelsebegantoruntogether.

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How to use this book

From Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools

#14

Get the name of 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.

From Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools

#25

Learn the difference between

reports and storiesUse one to render information, the

other to render experience

After the sky fellBy BRADY DENNISPublished January 28, 2005Times 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.

From Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools

#26

Use dialogue as a form of action

Dialogue advances narrative; quotes delay it.

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.

“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 AlvaradoBurges High SchoolTops in Texas 2009 Student Life story

Roy Peter Clark saysOwn 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.

Keep LearningNever let a day go by that you don’t learn

something new.

Lori Oglesbee, McKinney High School

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.

Mark Murray, Arlington ISD

http://www.aisd.net/murray/

Handouts on PhotoShop and general darkroom proce-

dures.

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

Books to have

Style Guide

NCS

Writing Tools

Roy Peter Clark

The Little Book of Layouts

David E. Carter

http://www.taje.org

North Carolina State University

Writing Tools

Roy Peter Clark

The Little Book of Layouts

David E. Carter

LIFE formula for visual variety in the photo storyPhotojournalism:

The Professionals’ ApproachOVERALL – wide shot to establish the sceneMEDIUM – focuses on one activity or group

CLOSE-UP or DETAIL – one element, like a

person’s hands or intricate part of a buildingPORTRAIT – a person in his/her environmental

setting, or a dramatic tight head shotINTERACTION – people in action or conversing

SIGNATURE or THE DECISIVE MOMENT –

contains all the key story-telling elementsCLINCHER – a closer that summarizes or ends

the story

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