Students' work was published in a magazine format.
Sample stories include:
Cheerleaders: Made to Fly, Jump, Kick, and Stunt
Is NASCAR a Sport?
600: Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame?
The Life of a Professional Football Player
Is Michael Jordan Really the Greatest Player to Ever Live?
Chris Broussard Speaks On Education
Strength, Flexibility, and Dedication = Great Gymnast
So You Think You Can Play Soccer?
Students also finished up their video projects. Some hosted their own shows about topics they like.
In this case, skateboarding.
Here specific moves are recreated with a mini-skateboard setup.
Students also co-hosted shows
played themselves
or asked staff (and other students) to play roles.
This kind of role-playing takes place because the students want to create videos that look as much as possible as what would be shown on television.
Some of the camera work was shaky, some of the editing was a bit rough, but students generally had a sense of how they wanted to shape their stories. They had introductions, multiple perspectives, and conclusions. You can tell that their sense of structure was ahead of their technical ability to pull it off, which is fine. The staff felt that with just a little more time the videos would have been stronger. This is something to keep in mind for next year. We packed a lot of work into two weeks - drafts of multiple spot stories, one final draft of a spot story, a feature story, and a video.
Time to catch our breath and reflect on the summer.
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