For any Writer's Craft teachers out there who like to do some journalism units, here's something you might want to check out. I've drawn up some lesson plans for a one-week online module on how writing online hard news stories differs from writing print hard news stories.
The unit assumes that the students have already written pyramid-style hard news stories, and that they have already done some serious work on sentence structure and style and tone for journalism.
By the end of the unit, the students have learned about lateral reporting, headlines, summaries, photos and captions, all from an online perspective.
There's no doubt that our future journalists will need to be online-saavy. I think that this unit will work well as a bridge from the print world into the online world.
Here's a text copy of just the student directions so that you can customize them to your heart's content for whatever platform you might want to run the module on. Enjoy!
The unit assumes that the students have already written pyramid-style hard news stories, and that they have already done some serious work on sentence structure and style and tone for journalism.
By the end of the unit, the students have learned about lateral reporting, headlines, summaries, photos and captions, all from an online perspective.
There's no doubt that our future journalists will need to be online-saavy. I think that this unit will work well as a bridge from the print world into the online world.
Here's a text copy of just the student directions so that you can customize them to your heart's content for whatever platform you might want to run the module on. Enjoy!
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