Congratulations! It's time for your class to make the news this month. Use the following links, pdfs, and resources to have a successful production. There are a few items that are mandatory and you must include for a grade. Use past examples of WSTEM news pieces as inspiration and guidance. You may also want to look on YouTube and see what others schools have been doing. |
Forms and Resources
Daily Newscast Feedback PDF All individuals will be responsible for filling this out the week their class is responsible for creating the news. It will be due on Friday at the end of the class. On Friday you may transfer your answers to the Digital Feedback FORM and submit them online for a grade. |
The format:
Be sure to include an intro, the pledge, moment of silence, lunch menus, announcements (if any needed by faculty or students) and special interest pieces. You can add any other elements you want to make the news interesting. Consider creating PSAs, a student showcase section, interviews, poetry readings, book/movie reviews, joke of the day, weather, etc. The possibilities are as vast as your imagination and skill set! The news should never be longer than 5 minutes! Each class will have multiple turns to work on the news. When your class is not working on a daily news segment, you will be working on creative film festival pieces and documentaries to broaden your knowledge of different genre's and audiences. |
Instructions for each week:
1. Groups: Break up into 5 groups for the News--One for each day. You will be responsible for the news on the day that your group signs up for from intro to end. Your class will produce daily news pieces that will span from Tuesday to Monday. Each group will need to have their day finished by the end of class the day before their news piece airs, at a minimum. Ideally, I would like for you to have it done two days ahead of time to make any final changes and account for delays that may occur during production.
2. Delegations and Deadlines: Decide who is going to be responsible for each segment of the news. Make sure everyone has a role. You will need anchors, writers, cameramen, editors, etc to coordinate the execution. This is a big job, and you only have a week to coordinate interviews, editing times, and pull all parts together, so delegating and setting a job sheet with deadlines is very important. You will need to do this before you begin working on any parts so expectations of each member are clear. Remember, its easier to erase a blueprint, than take a pickaxe to a foundation (Wright).
3. Execution and Production: Once you have decided who is doing what, you should begin executing and producing your individual pieces. Whether you working on the intro, doing lunch menus, interviews, etc, it will take all of you collaborating and communicating to effectively create a worthy daily piece. You will have a dedicated classroom work station that you will use to import footage and edit your news. You should stick to this work station, and use google drive to share any pieces in progress with group members. This helps keep everyone aware of content and progress, and anyone falling behind, can have others help with writer's block, or make suggestions to help you manage your segment.
4. Finalizing and Publication: Once you have finished your daily piece, everyone in the group will need to review it and watch it back. This prevents you from publishing errors and having multiple eyes on it will catch any audio or video glitches, and you can add any final edits and touches to your video. The video should never be longer than 5 minutes. Once everyone has agreed that the piece is ready for publishing, you will have Mrs. Fox do a final viewing before exporting it and publishing it to YouTube.
5. Feedback and Self-Assessment: You are responsible for providing feedback on the news. You will write two complete sentences providing one praise, and one polish for each segment of WSTEM News created during your news month. You may keep these in a notebook during the week, and you should use the Daily News Feedback Form PDF to find the format for your answers. On Friday you will be responsible for submitting your answers digitally using the digital feedback form. You will also be responsible for submitting a self-assessment on your part of the news detailing your contribution, what you learned, and what you felt you did well, in addition to what you think you could do better next time.
2. Delegations and Deadlines: Decide who is going to be responsible for each segment of the news. Make sure everyone has a role. You will need anchors, writers, cameramen, editors, etc to coordinate the execution. This is a big job, and you only have a week to coordinate interviews, editing times, and pull all parts together, so delegating and setting a job sheet with deadlines is very important. You will need to do this before you begin working on any parts so expectations of each member are clear. Remember, its easier to erase a blueprint, than take a pickaxe to a foundation (Wright).
3. Execution and Production: Once you have decided who is doing what, you should begin executing and producing your individual pieces. Whether you working on the intro, doing lunch menus, interviews, etc, it will take all of you collaborating and communicating to effectively create a worthy daily piece. You will have a dedicated classroom work station that you will use to import footage and edit your news. You should stick to this work station, and use google drive to share any pieces in progress with group members. This helps keep everyone aware of content and progress, and anyone falling behind, can have others help with writer's block, or make suggestions to help you manage your segment.
4. Finalizing and Publication: Once you have finished your daily piece, everyone in the group will need to review it and watch it back. This prevents you from publishing errors and having multiple eyes on it will catch any audio or video glitches, and you can add any final edits and touches to your video. The video should never be longer than 5 minutes. Once everyone has agreed that the piece is ready for publishing, you will have Mrs. Fox do a final viewing before exporting it and publishing it to YouTube.
5. Feedback and Self-Assessment: You are responsible for providing feedback on the news. You will write two complete sentences providing one praise, and one polish for each segment of WSTEM News created during your news month. You may keep these in a notebook during the week, and you should use the Daily News Feedback Form PDF to find the format for your answers. On Friday you will be responsible for submitting your answers digitally using the digital feedback form. You will also be responsible for submitting a self-assessment on your part of the news detailing your contribution, what you learned, and what you felt you did well, in addition to what you think you could do better next time.