FTHS Journalism Network

A network for journalism students at Foothill Technology High School

Reimagining journalism at a small public high school.

Online courses

You need to complete each of these courses by the end of 2nd Quarter. Each course will take 1-2 hours (you can save and quit then go back later). You only need to register with News University for the first one. You may take the courses in any order. At the end of each course you must submit a report to my email to get credit.

1. Clean Your Copy

2. The Interview

3. The Lead Lab

4. Be a Reporter

5. Language of the Image

6. Beat Basics

Members

Links

*The Foothill Dragon Press
*Article in Ventura County Star
*Journalism Class Wiki
*Staff emails
*Parent Letter
*List of H.S. Online News Sites
*Find public domain images here
*Mrs. Wantz's Website
*FTHS School Website
*Free quality photos
*FHNtoday.com (Judged Best of Show at JEA conference)
*Mrs. Wantz's email: melissa.wantz at venturausd.org

Latest Activity

Caitlin Trude and Gemma Stoll are now friends
Aug 24, 2010
Melissa Wantz posted a discussion

Photo Workshop Powerpoint

Attached is the Powerpoint created by Sharon and Alison for the summer workshop.See More
Aug 24, 2010
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Chris W is now a member of FTHS Journalism Network
Aug 23, 2010
Welcome Them!
Gemma Stoll and Katie Elvin are now friends
Aug 16, 2010
Katie Elvin updated their profile
Aug 15, 2010
Katie Elvin updated their profile photo
Aug 15, 2010
Gemma Stoll is now a member of FTHS Journalism Network
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Caitlin Trude updated their profile photo
Jul 18, 2010
Caitlin Trude is now a member of FTHS Journalism Network
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Jun 30, 2010
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The Foothill Dragon Press Staff 2009-2010

Forum

A Great News Package (Feature Story)

Please take time to check out this feature story, slide show and video from The Ventura County Star.…Continue

Tags: excellent, work, Star, County, Ventura

Started by Melissa Wantz Apr 12, 2010.

Editing Stories: A PowerPoint Presentation

If you're on the Dragon Press staff and have been assigned to editing, here is a simple PowerPoint that explains how to use the administrative back-end of the site to edit stories. I hope you find it…Continue

Started by Geneva Feb 25, 2010.

Updating Twitter - A PowerPoint Presentation

If you're assigned to marketing at any point, and you're not sure how to update the Dragon Press Twitter account, this presentation should explain everything with images and simple directions. I hope…Continue

Started by Geneva Feb 23, 2010.

Writing for the Web

Guidelines for writing for the web:1. Keep it tight. Use short, tight paragraphs with one idea per paragraph.2. Write clearly. Eliminate unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. Let strong VERBS tell the…Continue

Started by Melissa Wantz Jan 10, 2010.

Creating your video projects

Guidelines for videos (from the NSPA Multimedia Guidebook):1. Keep videos short. Make them one to two minutes. People don't have patience to watch longer videos on the web.2. Work to get high-quality…Continue

Started by Melissa Wantz Jan 9, 2010.

Creating your soundslide projects

Guidelines for soundslide shows:1. Take a lot of photos.2. Get great audio of the subject and of ambient (ordinary environmental) sounds.3. Put the photos in a story-telling sequence that is visually…Continue

Started by Melissa Wantz Jan 9, 2010.

Assignment: Review the L.A. Times by Tuesday at 3 p.m. 25 Replies

Please open the LA Times website and poke around it for about 5-10 minutes. Then write down your impressions.1. Besides our own, how often do you…Continue

Tags: Poynter, critique, homework, Times, LA

Started by Melissa Wantz. Last reply by Bill Grundler Oct 22, 2009.

Assignment for Tuesday, October 6 26 Replies

Read this news story from Tennessee.…Continue

Tags: features, news

Started by Melissa Wantz. Last reply by Bill Grundler Oct 22, 2009.

Our launch is 10 days away, what are you doing to get our site ready? 1 Reply

Are you finishing your stories, videos, photos? Are you telling your friends to friend our Facebook page? Are you wearing your shirt?If so, good job!Continue

Tags: launch

Started by Melissa Wantz. Last reply by Brittany Ocker Oct 17, 2009.

Vote on Journalism slogan for class t-shirt 1 Reply

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENITFNHWThlcnBfTTdCajZmZXVMelE6MA..

Tags: class, journalism, slogan, vote

Started by Melissa Wantz. Last reply by Brittany Ocker Oct 17, 2009.

Photos

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Welcome to the Ning

What is a Ning? Specifically, what is this Ning? A Ning is an online social network tool similar to Facebook and MySpace, where members can communicate, collaborate and share ideas.

FTHSJournalism.ning.com will be the hub of communication for next year's journalism class at Foothill. This is not the news site (we will create that site later on a different platform). We will use this Ning to start discussing the news site.

This is the place for your ideas, brainstorms and creativity. It's also the place to share, share, share anything and everything that you learn about today's media world. This is the spot to post a link to the news story you just read, the website you just found, the cool widget or tool you discovered. This is the place for ideas on what our news site should do and look like next year.

What can you add? Anything. Photos, videos, ideas, questions, discussions, calendar events, etc... You are the content creators of this site. It is yours! I'm just getting it started.

Invite anyone currently in Journalism Club or planning to take Journalism Class next year to join. We are going to have an amazing year. Let's get it started right now.

Videos

Blog Posts

Summer is Flying By

It's already August, and my mind has definitely turned toward the new school year. If yours has not, feel free to stop reading! Go back to sleep, go to the beach, pop that DVD back in the player. Enjoy your vacation. We have a lot of fun and work ahead, so it will help if you are rested and rearing to create some great journalism when you do come back to school.

My trip to the University School of Journalism in July was fantastic. I spent 12 days… Continue

Posted by Melissa Wantz on August 4, 2009 at 10:00pm

Summer- tumi jeno dumurer phool hoe gele.

Tempature rises and flowers bloom. New bathing suits are thrown on in haste as white skin jumps out to say to the sun "I'm ready for my tan!" Summer is here. Science interactive notebooks are burned and thrown away. Agendas are forgotten and papers abandoned. The beach calls! The friends call! Summer is finally here.



And yet...



Ah, yes, those terrible words "and yet." And yet I am still busy. Stress has not been dissolved. Summer reading holds a heavy weight in the… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Roemisch on June 25, 2009 at 3:27pm — 1 Comment

Note for the Future: reCaptcha

http://recaptcha.net/index.html



"reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science about it (or read more below).



A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs… Continue

Posted by Trevor Adams on April 5, 2009 at 8:52pm — 1 Comment

What a way to spend a Sunday!

Today I lounged around all day reading blogs from journalism teachers around the country. It was fascinating and incredibly informative. I'm excited about next year's class and the news site that we will develop. It's going to be a lot of hard work getting it up and running, but it will be exciting to see the results. I can't wait to meet the students who have signed up (aside from the ones I know from Journalism Club already -- who are amazing!). Mr. Bova said that 31 people have signed up so… Continue

Posted by Melissa Wantz on March 29, 2009 at 4:54pm

 
 
 

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