Interactive Journalism Final Report

Today is your last day of Interactive Journalism. You will be writing a report based on your experience:

Picture yourself as a journalist and write a report about what you have learned in this class since September.
Here are some questions to prompt you:
What new skills have you learned?
What does Interactive Journalism mean to you now?
How can you apply some of these skills to the rest of your life?

Please make sure grammar and punctuation make sense and are correct. This report will be part of your final grade for the class.

Final Projects

Schedule: 1/22/09 Editing Scripts, Send to MSVENTURAWHS@GMAIL.COM
FINAL: 1/23/09 Presentation of Scripts/gathering photos
Last Class: 1/28/09: Watertown Tab, Class Interview about topic
Feb 5th: Autobiographies & Palestine Documentary at Watertown Public Library

It has been a pleasure teaching you.
This semester I have seen tremendous growth in all of you. Continue to work hard and don't forget to visit.

More Multi Media Resources for Israeli/Palestinian Conflict-

Both sides fight Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Internet
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Slide Presentations
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Palestinian Media Watch
Videos about israel-palestine-gaza-occupation
Hamas Charter and Info
Hizbullah's Resistance
In Israel, Gaza War Is Seen as Just
Anger Rises in the West Bank
Reporter's Notebook: The Tunnels of Gaza
Israel Strikes Gaza Strip Interactive
Two Peoples Divided Interactive

Interactive Journalism Project II & Assignment for Friday

Interactive Journalism Project II

Dear Students,

Now that you have completed your autobiography projects you will now start your new project.
You will now make your own news report. This will be your final project for the class.

Before you make your own news report, you will first make a news report with a partner in order to learn more about the process of producing your own interactive journalism piece.
Journalist report on current events local, state, and world. For this project you will cover a world event (and then later a local event).
The topic of the news report will be the current situation in Gaza.

Here are the partners:

Dina & Anthony S.
Dan & Nicole
Camila & Keith
Harrison & Nathan

Anthony A. will be working alone and eventually helping the groups with Final Cut Questions

Here are the first steps to making the news report with your partner (to be done today in library)
1) Gather information about the current situation and write a summary. Here are links to sites to gather more research:
CNN World News and Video
NY Times Interactive Media: Israel, the Gaza Strip, and Hamas
Israeli Shells Kill 40 at Gaza U.N. School
Gaza crisis: key maps and timeline
Who are Hamas?
Palestinian rivals: Fatah & Hamas

You can focus on several different aspects. For example:
Why is Israeli attacking Gaza in the first place?
Discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
What are the similarities/differences between Hamas and Fatah?

Please start the first draft of your research/script in your blog. This is part of your grade for this next assignment. Please look over grammar and DO NOT PLAGIARISE. If you plagiarise you will get an F. Write the script in your own words and site where you got the information. Ask Ms.Westgate if you need help along the way.

Each partner should gather research/scripting to be posted your blogs. I will be checking your blogs to make sure you did the first part of the assignment.
Due on Monday.

I look forward to seeing your work! Have great weekend! Ms. V