Here it is man...Article #1...News...
Bringing Spring News
With the arrival of the spring semester, many Jamaica High School students will remember the tedious hours they will once again have to devote to the numerous, rigorous classes they have staring back at them on their paper program cards.
"I'm not ready for a whole 'nother semester," said super junior Ralph Blunder. "I feel like Regents week just ended, man. Where's the break?!"
Although many students echo the sentiments of one Ralph Blunder, other students have a much more optimistic outlook on the coming of a new semester.
"I'm excited about new classes! This means new subjects and new concepts to learn about with new teachers!" exclaimed freshman Ralphina Blunder. "There's something nice about new!"
Unfortunately, not all students will be experiencing the same refreshing elation Ralphina felt. Certain students that enroll in year-long electives such as journalism will be stuck with the same instructor, Mr. Cohen.
Despite being the same person he was in 2007, Mr. Cohen did admit to The Hilltopper that he plans on evolving the course for the spring semester.
"Now that the class has a journalism foundation, it's time to up the stakes, up the ante," said Mr. Cohen. "There will be more deadlines, definitely more deadlines--even weekly!"
With that, he also noted that the journalism classroom has been updated with actual working printers and Pentium 4 computers. Due to the new addition, he also has high hopes of incorporating technology into the course by, for the first time ever, requiring electronic portfolios instead of the standard hard-copy versions.
He recommended that students pick up a flash drive from their local office supply store, and that they all sign up for their own blogs at http://www.blogger.com/. In addition, he also noted students should make use of a handy steno pad like the real journalists do.
"This is the 21st century!" he shouted, getting all worked up in a frenzy. "We need to be technologically literate and actually be journalists online and in print."
And print is what they will do, unless of course they just post online, once they cope with those daunting program cards and start delivering the spring news.
11 comments:
regents week was short, but new to journalism, seems interesting.
i like how journalism is being revamped to incorporate electronics.
It's great how there is a lot of "new" stuff. I'm a new to Journalism as well and it seems great!
Nice article. Hopefully these new adjustments will work out for the class.
Now I can type my articles at home and not in class. Great idea Mr. C.
And by the way...we ARE real journalists
The spring semester is too complicated to follow. The schedule should be the way it did in the fall semester.
I'm gettig the hang of it and so far i like it.New things with old things really great.
Great article. It was very organized and consisted of elevated vocabulary. Also, very detailed quotations. This will be fun. The new portfolio and everything will be awesome!!!!
The idea of moving journalism to 4th pd. was just preposterous! My program card was changed and journalism was taken out! It was replaced by a class that I must take so I could graduate! Anyway, to all new & old members goodluck and have a fun semester! I ,might take this class next term! I'll def. miss writing articles! Finally, I think that the new idea using computers is totally awesome!! if im needed just leave me a message! =]
omg(oh my God) mr.cohen i absolutely hate this thing. it published the old unfinished article as opposed to the edited one. smh(shaking my head) so now im gonna cry at 3:42 in the morning as I try to remember what i wrote
so now im finished at 4:10. please rake the time to view the changes. :'(
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