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Lesson 1

Netiquette in the Real World and Beyond

Description: This series of expeditions is designed to teach you the values of good Netiquette. Designed as a WebQuest, this lesson makes use of online conferencing between fellow students to aid in the development of proper e-mail, discussion board and chat manners while online.

Description: This series of expeditions is designed to help you see the value of good Netiquette. This lesson is a webquest.

Lesson 3

Why Can't I Say That? Ed. 573

Description: This series of expeditions is designed to help you begin to value yourr First Amendment rights and appreciate the responsibilities of a journalist. These case studies take you through the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, using three landmark cases involving freedom of expression and student journalists.

Description: This series of expeditions is designed introduce you to the ethical standards of professional journalists.Four case studies present you as journalists with tough ethical situations that pit professional interests against ethical standards. You will analyze the situations and determine what ethical choice the journalist should have made.

Description: This set of two expeditions is designed to encourage you to analyze the effects that the Internet has had on the field of journalism.

In the first expedition, the you will explore traditional news sources online: MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, The New York Times and The Weekly Standard. Students are asked to compare and contrast content, writing style and slant among the various news sources.

In the second expedition you will begin to explore the new medium of blogging. You will identify the characteristics of a blogger, and to begin to question just who may be classified as a journalist in today's world.

Some of the most important decisions made on a newspaper are deciding what stories are worth covering. In this lesson you will explores different processes that will help you use your time reporting the stories that make a differnence.

This lesson is designed to guide you through the orginization of variety of styles of news writing. Your lessons begin with the AP or summary lead, then help you explore the inverted pyramid style, and finally guide you through the chronological and essay style of news writing as well as introduce you to other styles of organization.

This lesson is designed to take you through the interviewing process from the background research, to creating the interview questions, to arranging the interview, to structuring the interview, and finally to writing the article upon which the interview was based.

This lesson is designed to enable you to write stories that usually take up too much space for us to publish. The lesson will take you through what trends or subjects make worthy in-depth stories, and how to write the in-depth story. It also guides you through how to make room for the story.