This writing project has been a wonderful learning experience for me. From the initial assignment of story ideas (of which I included my students' concerns) we sent to Steve weeks before we arrived to the drafts and two mentor meetings to today's final version deadline, it has been a wild ride of edits and interviews and down drafts and up drafts (quoting Anne Lamotte), and I know each one of us has come through knowing someone is beside us or behind us all the way. Woofta.
Thanks, Jill for the connections and recordings and searches, and Kathryn for your constant support and Mike for your mighty direction as our leader. I was placed on a wonderful team.
To speak for all of us...our mentor, Dawn Gilbertson, consumer travel reporter for Arizona Republic and http://azcentral.com was professional, to-the-point and helpful supporting our topic choices and giving us direction as to story angles and a focus to move forward with our first draft.
Our second meeting was productive. She met with us at lunch and critiqued our work after we did our team edits. She gave us her individual assessment of where we went wrong and how to get back on track. Even though she had read and marked her comments on our papers, she went through each comment with us individually so we understood clearly what she meant...something I think all of us should practice so there is never any misunderstanding in our dialog with our students.
The headlines are always a challenge for me -- I feel I do well with caption lead-ins and theme carry-through ideas for yearbook sidebars, but headlines stump me. Anyone with any ideas out there to share?
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| Kathryn Burkholder, Pinckney High School yearbook adviser and English and Communication teacher, works with Dawn Gilmore from the Arizona Republic on her final online project for the 2013 Reynolds High School Journalism Institute. |
Maureen Barton
Sedona Red Rock High School
Sedona, Ariz.
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