last day get together: ice cream and nails

June 2, 2010

Final exam Friday.

study suggestion: write in the countries that correspond to the map. It will be the same as the test.

Period 3 presentation order.

Monday: Claire's group; Amanda's group

Tuesday: Lyla's group; Noah's group

Wednesday: Joe's group; Denisha's group

Period 9
Monday- Harriet's group
Tuesday- Chandel's group; Amber's group
Wednesday- Josh

Monday May 24, 2010

Time is drawing nigh.

Please finish up your scripts today, getting them to your editor, who will hand in tomorrow one for your group. I'll return them to you on Wednesday for any needed additional work. (There will be).
Do not forget to include the following: setting (where is this taking place? how are you blocking? props?) , specific dialogue (and what images are coming up behind you), transition material (there is no dead time, interview questions and introduction, your editorial should be complete (do you want a background image? someone checked the grammar?); is there music; if so how and when ? a closing?

THE ABOVE IS DUE TUESDAY!

Again: presentations are on Monday June 7, Tuesday June 8, Wednesday June 9 and Thursday June 10. There will be assigned times. If a member of your group is absent, someone must be ready to step in, if it is a live performance. If this is all prerecorded, then this is obviously not necessary. However, all group members must be present for discussion on the day of their presentation. As well, at that time (beginning, not end), a completed script should be turned in.

Three grades: script (group) / performance (individual) / attendance (individuual)

YOUR FINAL: June 4
easy- as journalists, you are culturally aware people, and by extension know the world. Your final exam is a map of the world, upon which you will label the countries. The US State Department recognizes 194. They are listed below. Note simply the short form; the capital is not necessary.

`STATE

Short-form name Long-form name FIPS Code
(see note 2) Capital
Afghanistan *+ Islamic Republic of Afghanistan AF Kabul
Albania *+ Republic of Albania AL Tirana
Algeria *+ People's Democratic Republic of Algeria AG Algiers
Andorra *+ Principality of Andorra AN Andorra la Vella
Angola *+ Republic of Angola AO Luanda
Antigua and
Barbuda *+ (no long-form name) AC Saint John's
Argentina *+ Argentine Republic AR Buenos Aires
Armenia *+ Republic of Armenia AM Yerevan
Australia *+ Commonwealth of Australia AS Canberra
Austria *+ Republic of Austria AU Vienna
Azerbaijan *+ Republic of Azerbaijan AJ Baku
Bahamas, The *+ Commonwealth
of The Bahamas BF Nassau
Bahrain *+ Kingdom of Bahrain BA Manama
Bangladesh *+ People's Republic
of Bangladesh BG Dhaka
Barbados *+ (no long-form name) BB Bridgetown
Belarus *+ Republic of Belarus BO Minsk
Belgium *+ Kingdom of Belgium BE Brussels
Belize *+ (no long-form name) BH Belmopan
Benin *+ Republic of Benin BN Porto-Novo
Bhutan + Kingdom of Bhutan BT Thimphu
Bolivia *+ ! Plurinational State of Bolivia BL La Paz (administrative)
Sucre (legislative/judiciary)
Bosnia and
Herzegovina *+ (no long-form name) BK Sarajevo
Botswana *+ Republic of Botswana BC Gaborone
Brazil *+ Federative Republic of Brazil BR Brasília
Brunei *+ Brunei Darussalam BX Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria *+ Republic of Bulgaria BU Sofia
Burkina Faso *+ Burkina Faso UV Ouagadougou
Burma *+ Union of Burma BM Rangoon
Nay Pyi Taw (administrative)
Burundi *+ Republic of Burundi BY Bujumbura
Cambodia *+ Kingdom of Cambodia CB Phnom Penh
Cameroon *+ Republic of Cameroon CM Yaoundé
Canada *+ (no long-form name) CA Ottawa
Cape Verde *+ Republic of Cape Verde CV Praia
Central
African Republic *+ Central African Republic CT Bangui
Chad *+ Republic of Chad CD N'Djamena
Chile *+ Republic of Chile CI Santiago
China *+ (see note 3) People's Republic of China CH Beijing
Colombia *+ Republic of Colombia CO Bogotá
Comoros *+ Union of the Comoros CN Moroni
Congo (Brazzaville) *+
(see note 4) Republic of the Congo CF Brazzaville
Congo (Kinshasa) *+
(see note 4) Democratic Republic
of the Congo CG Kinshasa
Costa Rica *+ Republic of Costa Rica CS San José
Côte d'Ivoire *+ Republic of Côte d'Ivoire IV Yamoussoukro
Croatia *+ Republic of Croatia HR Zagreb
Cuba + Republic of Cuba CU Havana
Cyprus *+ Republic of Cyprus CY Nicosia
Czech Republic *+ Czech Republic EZ Prague
Denmark *+ Kingdom of Denmark DA Copenhagen
Djibouti *+ Republic of Djibouti DJ Djibouti
Dominica *+ Commonwealth of Dominica DO Roseau
Dominican Republic *+ Dominican Republic DR Santo Domingo
Ecuador *+ Republic of Ecuador EC Quito
Egypt *+ Arab Republic of Egypt EG Cairo
El Salvador *+ Republic of El Salvador ES San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea *+ Republic of Equatorial Guinea EK Malabo
Eritrea *+ State of Eritrea ER Asmara
Estonia *+ Republic of Estonia EN Tallinn
Ethiopia *+ Federal Democratic
Republic of Ethiopia ET Addis Ababa
Fiji *+ Republic of the
Fiji Islands FJ Suva
Finland *+ Republic of Finland FI Helsinki
France *+ French Republic FR Paris
Gabon *+ Gabonese Republic GB Libreville
Gambia, The *+ Republic of The Gambia GA Banjul
Georgia *+ Georgia GG Tbilisi
Germany *+ Federal Republic of Germany GM Berlin
Ghana *+ Republic of Ghana GH Accra
Greece *+ Hellenic Republic GR Athens
Grenada *+ (no long-form name) GJ Saint George's
Guatemala *+ Republic of Guatemala GT Guatemala
Guinea *+ Republic of Guinea GV Conakry
Guinea-Bissau *+ Republic of Guinea-Bissau PU Bissau
Guyana *+ Co-operative
Republic of Guyana GY Georgetown
Haiti *+ Republic of Haiti HA Port-au-Prince
Holy See * Holy See VT Vatican City
Honduras *+ Republic of Honduras HO Tegucigalpa
Hungary *+ Republic of Hungary HU Budapest
Iceland *+ Republic of Iceland IC Reykjavík
India *+ Republic of India IN New Delhi
Indonesia *+ Republic of Indonesia ID Jakarta
Iran + Islamic Republic of Iran IR Tehran
Iraq *+ Republic of Iraq IZ Baghdad
Ireland *+ (no long-form name) EI Dublin
Israel *+ State of Israel IS Jerusalem (see note 5)
Italy *+ Italian Republic IT Rome
Jamaica *+ (no long-form name) JM Kingston
Japan *+ (no long-form name) JA Tokyo
Jordan *+ Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan JO Amman
Kazakhstan *+ Republic of Kazakhstan KZ Astana
Kenya *+ Republic of Kenya KE Nairobi
Kiribati *+ Republic of Kiribati KR Tarawa
Korea, North + Democratic People's Republic of Korea KN Pyongyang
Korea, South *+ Republic of Korea KS Seoul
Kosovo * Republic of Kosovo KV Pristina
Kuwait *+ State of Kuwait KU Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan *+ Kyrgyz Republic KG Bishkek
Laos *+ Lao People's
Democratic Republic LA Vientiane
Latvia *+ Republic of Latvia LG Riga
Lebanon *+ Lebanese Republic LE Beirut
Lesotho *+ Kingdom of Lesotho LT Maseru
Liberia *+ Republic of Liberia LI Monrovia
Libya *+ Great Socialist People's
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya LY Tripoli
Liechtenstein *+ Principality of Liechtenstein LS Vaduz
Lithuania *+ Republic of Lithuania LH Vilnius
Luxembourg *+ Grand Duchy of Luxembourg LU Luxembourg
Macedonia *+ Republic of Macedonia MK Skopje
Madagascar *+ Republic of Madagascar MA Antananarivo
Malawi *+ Republic of Malawi MI Lilongwe
Malaysia *+ (no long-form name) MY Kuala Lumpur
Maldives *+ Republic of Maldives MV Male
Mali *+ Republic of Mali ML Bamako
Malta *+ Republic of Malta MT Valletta
Marshall Islands *+ Republic of the
Marshall Islands RM Majuro
Mauritania *+ Islamic Republic
of Mauritania MR Nouakchott
Mauritius *+ Republic of Mauritius MP Port Louis
Mexico *+ United Mexican States MX Mexico
Micronesia,
Federated States of *+ Federated States
of Micronesia FM Palikir
Moldova *+ Republic of Moldova MD Chisinau
Monaco *+ Principality of Monaco MN Monaco
Mongolia *+ (no long-form name) MG Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro *+
Montenegro
MJ
Podgorica

Morocco *+ Kingdom of Morocco MO Rabat
Mozambique *+ Republic of Mozambique MZ Maputo
Namibia *+ Republic of Namibia WA Windhoek
Nauru *+ Republic of Nauru NR Yaren District
(no capital city)
Nepal *+ Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal NP Kathmandu
Netherlands *+ Kingdom of the Netherlands NL Amsterdam
The Hague (seat of gov't)
New Zealand *+ (no long-form name) NZ Wellington
Nicaragua *+ Republic of Nicaragua NU Managua
Niger *+ Republic of Niger NG Niamey
Nigeria *+ Federal Republic of Nigeria NI Abuja
Norway *+ Kingdom of Norway NO Oslo
Oman *+ Sultanate of Oman MU Muscat
Pakistan *+ Islamic Republic of Pakistan PK Islamabad
Palau *+ Republic of Palau PS Melekeok
Panama *+ Republic of Panama PM Panama
Papua New Guinea *+ Independent State
of Papua New Guinea PP Port Moresby
Paraguay *+ Republic of Paraguay PA Asunción
Peru *+ Republic of Peru PE Lima
Philippines *+ Republic of the Philippines RP Manila
Poland *+ Republic of Poland PL Warsaw
Portugal *+ Portuguese Republic PO Lisbon
Qatar *+ State of Qatar QA Doha
Romania *+ (no long-form name) RO Bucharest
Russia *+ Russian Federation RS Moscow
Rwanda *+ Republic of Rwanda RW Kigali
Saint Kitts and Nevis *+ Federation of Saint
Kitts and Nevis SC Basseterre
Saint Lucia *+ (no long-form name) ST Castries
Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines *+ (no long-form name) VC Kingstown
Samoa *+ Independent State of Samoa WS Apia
San Marino *+ Republic of San Marino SM San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe *+ Democratic Republic of
Sao Tome and Principe TP São Tomé
Saudi Arabia *+ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia SA Riyadh
Senegal *+ Republic of Senegal SG Dakar
Serbia *+
Republic of Serbia
RI
Belgrade
Seychelles *+ Republic of Seychelles SE Victoria
Sierra Leone *+ Republic of Sierra Leone SL Freetown
Singapore *+ Republic of Singapore SN Singapore
Slovakia *+ Slovak Republic LO Bratislava
Slovenia *+ Republic of Slovenia SI Ljubljana
Solomon Islands *+ (no long-form name) BP Honiara
Somalia *+ (no long-form name) SO Mogadishu
South Africa *+ Republic of South Africa SF Pretoria (administrative)
Cape Town (legislative)
Bloemfontein (judiciary)
Spain *+ Kingdom of Spain SP Madrid
Sri Lanka *+ Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka CE Colombo
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)
Sudan *+ Republic of the Sudan SU Khartoum
Suriname *+ Republic of Suriname NS Paramaribo
Swaziland *+ Kingdom of Swaziland WZ Mbabane (administrative)
Lobamba (legislative)
Sweden *+ Kingdom of Sweden SW Stockholm
Switzerland *+ Swiss Confederation SZ Bern
Syria *+ Syrian Arab Republic SY Damascus
Tajikistan *+ Republic of Tajikistan TI Dushanbe
Tanzania *+ United Republic of Tanzania TZ Dar es Salaam
Dodoma (legislative)
Thailand *+ Kingdom of Thailand TH Bangkok
Timor-Leste *+ Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste TT Dili
Togo *+ Togolese Republic TO Lomé
Tonga *+ Kingdom of Tonga TN Nuku'alofa
Trinidad and Tobago *+ Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago TD Port-of-Spain
Tunisia *+ Tunisian Republic TS Tunis
Turkey *+ Republic of Turkey TU Ankara
Turkmenistan *+ (no long-form name) TX Ashgabat
Tuvalu *+ (no long-form name) TV Funafuti
Uganda *+ Republic of Uganda UG Kampala
Ukraine *+ (no long-form name) UP Kyiv
United Arab Emirates *+ United Arab Emirates AE Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom *+ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland UK London
United States + United States of America US Washington, DC
Uruguay *+ Oriental Republic of Uruguay UY Montevideo
Uzbekistan *+ Republic of Uzbekistan UZ Tashkent
Vanuatu *+ Republic of Vanuatu NH Port-Vila
Venezuela *+ Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela VE Caracas
Vietnam *+ Socialist Republic of Vietnam VM Hanoi
Yemen *+ Republic of Yemen YM Sanaa
Zambia *+ Republic of Zambia ZA Lusaka
Zimbabwe *+ Republic of Zimbabwe ZI Harare

Term 6 / Final Project: News Show

This assignment allows you to demonstrate your acquired knowledge of journalism. You will close with a 15 minute news broadcast. With a production team of no more than five students, you will divide yourselves into reporters, anchor person(s), weather forcaster, editorial director and editor. Folks may obviously take on more than one roll. Performances / projects will be performed on Monday June 7, Tuesday June 8 and Wednesday June 9. You will get the specific time for your group next week. (Incidently, the final exam for this class is Thursday June 10. This will also be the last day we meet, as I am gone that Friday.

For each of the following segments of your news show, you must write out a detailed script that includes dialogue (some of which you will read), any blocking, props and choreography (where individuals are placed within the news set or out in the field, items they need to interact with and how they physically move).
Here is the suggested order. (You may vary from this).

1. opening
2. news
3. interview
4. commercial
5.news
6. weather
7. sports
8.commercial
9. editorial / feature
10. closing

All scripts are due to me on Wednesday June 2. This should be presented as a group, not individual. Make sure you get your material to the editor to check for grammar / spelling, etc.

Details:
You may present a live show or film your segments.
You may use the smart board as needed.
News: prepare each story to be as visible as possible. Do-on-location filming and inerviews to give the idea of what was happening. This involves determing all of he stories that will fill the broadcast.
Interview: Prepare questions and set-up times to interviw valuable parites for information. Mske sure the setting is appropriate for the interview- especially audio for taping. Watch out for noisy backgrounds.
Weather: The person in charge must prepare a forecast that includes today's weather, as well as the next five days. Include graphics!
Sports: Include more than one and get footage / images of teams.
Editorial / Short Feature: The editorial can be the view of the station's management on an issue pertinent to the school or a more human-interest story. (you might try a point / counterpoint).

Director / editor: This individual should produce a floor plan of the entire broadcast to be handed in with the scripts on June 2.

NOTE THAT THIS IS A TIMED SEGMENT: PRACTICE ...REHEARSE...PRACTICE

Monday May 10

Public relations project presentations today.
Make sure you fill out the grading rubric for each member of your group.

Thursday May 6, 2010

Your public relations projects will be presented on Monday. What that means is that is that the project will go into the last / next marking period.

A grade equivilant to the whole project will be given by the group to each member. This is for participation and fullfillment of their aspect of the project.

All parts of the project are due on Monday. Make sure everyone in your group is on task.

The public service announcement is 90 seconds. Check your timing on this.

Monday May 3, 2010

Remember your projects are due for presentation this Friday, which, incidently, is the last day of the marking period.

Here are the pictures from the water camera. Some of them are misty; but then again, so was the day.

Thursday April 29, 2010

You should have your groups and your organization chosen. You will need all the class time; so be productive. Your projects are due a week Friday; that is May 7. Divide up the work. A supplemenatal grade will be given by each of you to each member of your group that will assess cooperation and work ethic, esentially, did the person do the necessary work to make it a success project. Please read the following.

What is Public Relations?
It seems difficult to believe at the dawn of the 21st Century, that there exists a major discipline with so many diverse, partial, incomplete and limited interpretations of its mission. Here, just a sampling of professional opinion on what public relations is all about:

talking to the media on behalf of a client.
selling a product, service or idea.
reputation management.
engineering of perception
attracting credit to an organization for doing good.
limiting the downside when it does bad.

By definition, public relations is the art and science of establishing relationships between an organization and its key audiences. Public relations plays a key role in helping business industries create strong relationships with customers.


There are different types of public relations, some companies call it investor relations and yet others will call it financial public relations, but what companies do not realize is the fact that public relations is an extremely essential and integral marketing tool.

Basically, the general idea of public relations is advertising, branding and marketing. Anything that involves the media is the responsibility of the public relations officer. He encourages magazines, newspapers, radio and TV to print or air good things about the services and the products. This promotion will reach their targeted customers therefore generating an increase on sales and patronage.

People act on their perception of the facts; those perceptions lead to certain behaviors; and something can be done about those perceptions and behaviors that leads to achieving an organization’s objectives.

That leads us directly to the core strength of public relations.

When public relations creates, changes or reinforces the general opinion by reaching, persuading and moving-to-desired-action those people whose behaviors affect the organization, the public relations mission is accomplished.


Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising ?
You will often find that many people confuse public relations with marketing and/or advertising or vice versa. The most apparent reason for this is that the clear-cut distinctions are disappearing as each strategy’s different awareness building efforts become more and more integrated. While all those components are important they are very different.

Please take a look at the image at the top to note the differences.

Wednesday April 28, 2010

Journalism
Public Relations Project

In groups of 3 or 4, you will work together to produce a Public Relations package for a non-profit organization of local or national importance (ex. SADD). Your group is responsible for the following:

1. A 1:30 Public Service Announcement (PSA).
2. A press release publicizing a related event
3. Two of the following: posters, brochures, t-shirt or print ads
4. An event budget, including advertising fees
5. List of contacts for the events

Wednesday: I need the names of the people in your group and the organization for which you are putting together your project.

Please familiarize yourself with the content overview, key concepts and key terms.
Note the examples of a new or press release and the sample public relations campaign.

Period 3 groups and organization

United Way Katy, Joe, Melissa and Rasheed
? Jonathan, Zthori, Owen, Noah
Autism Speaks Amanda, Amy, Stephanie
Women's Sex Abuse (is this the name of the organization?) Michelle, Denisha,
Nastalsia and Jala
Planned Parenthood Lyla, Felisa, Caroline, Tyler
Childhood of America Candice, Chynna

Tuesday April 27, 2010

Here the digital pictures from yesterday; I'll have the river pictures up in the next couple of days. You were an outstanding bunch to spend the day with. And what great sports. Thank you.
Assignment: those who were not along,please finish and post yesterday's assignment. And anyone on the trip, write a reflective piece on the blog.