KIDPROJ: Journalism Project

This activity ended in 1997. For information only.

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A Day in the Life of News
Wednesday, May 14th, 1997

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Brazilian Portugeuse Traslation

PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT: Journalism and the Media Mini-Project

Description: On Wednesday, May 14th, 1997, students from around the world will go through their local media - print, broadcast, etc.and decide what they think the 3 most important news items are for thatmdate. They then post the headlines and a brief summary of their three chosen news items to the KIDPROJ listserv.

KIDPROJ@listserv.nodak.edu

1. Registration: All interested teachers need to register with me at my personal email address (liora@mail.snunit.k12.il)

When you register, please send in the following information:

your name and email address
your school name
the city/state or country where you are located
the grades you plan to have participate

Please register as soon as possible and no later than May 13th. Even if you have participated previously, you need to register again.

2. Introductions: All participants should introduce themselves either as a class or a group. Introductions should include information on who the participants are, their interests, hobbies, etc. and something about their school, city or country.

3. Choosing the news items: Before the 14th, students should read, watch, or listen to their local media so that on the 14th they can easily decide what they think the top news stories are for that day. (Please use only local news services and not international ones.) They might look at what items get the most coverage, where the item appears in the newspaper or broadcast, etc.

4. Posting the information: Please try and post your information within the week following May 14th. Each class or group of students should post the headlines and a brief summary of what they think the top three news items are for Wednesday, May 14th.

5. Analyzing the data: All participants are encouraged to analyze the data and post their conclusions back to the project list. Some suggestions for analyzing the data:

What kind of news items were posted - international interest, local, etc.? What news was the same from place to place?
What were students expectations? Did they expect the top news items to be the same from place to place? Different?
What were the most common types of news stories? Least common? Most unusual? Most interesting?
Why do they think certain types of news appears in certain places? (role of geography, politics, natural environment, etc.)
How does the news from May 14th compare with the news from Jan. 7th?

Please post all requests to register and class introductions by May 13th, 1997. (Registrations should be sent to my personal mailbox which is listed above.) All other mail - introductions, news items, comments, conclusions, etc. should be sent to the KIDPROJ listserv with the subject line:

JOURNALISM:news from......(enter city and state or country)

For further information on this activity or follow-up activities, please email Liora Minkin at liora@mail.snunit.k12.il

[ Introductions ][ News Day-May 14 ][ Analyzing Data ]

[ News - January 7, 1997 ]

Information Contact: Patti Weeg, Title 1 Computer Teacher, Delmar El. School, Delmar, Maryland, USA. Home Page: http://www.intercom.net/local/weeg

KIDPROJ WWW Contact: Grant Dougall, Educational Consultant: Technologies, Saskatoon Board of Education, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA. Web Site: http://www.sbe.saskatoon.sk.ca/

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Created 5:15 PM 6/15/97. Coding done by Robyn Harrington.