about this website One of the goals of the courses offered in the TV studio at Middletown High School is to help students learn to read and write with new electronic media. The point of our web log is to inspire students to pay more attention to news and current events, and to be mindful of where they seek out news and information. more. |
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Electronic Communication at Middletown High School
Both our classroom and this web site are learning spaces - one real, one virtual. Any changes you would like to see? Post a comment on our discussion board. |
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What you need to know about the US Freedom of Information Act What you need to know about the New York State Freedom of Information Law "The people's right to know the process of governmental decision-making and to review the documents and statistics leading to determinations is basic to our society. Access to such information should not be thwarted by shrouding it with the cloak of secrecy or confidentiality. The legislature therefore declares that government is the public's business and that the public, individually and collectively and represented by a free press, should have access to the records of government in accordance with the provisions of this article." From the New York State Freedom of Information Law |
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Assignments for spring semester 2008 1. Register as a user in the electronicenglish discussion board. Read the news. Read your classmates' comments. Post your own. 2. Create your own blog using blogger.com. Post entries on topics that interest you. Post comments on your classmates' blogs. 3. Use iMovie to make a song length slide show. Tell us about your world through a careful arrangement of images and sound. 4. Watch a documentary then give us your opinion. 5. Use Flash to create an interactive window, or magazine, CD, or DVD cover with clickable links to websites 6. Vox pop. Ask six people the same good question. Shoot and edit the responses along with your intro and outro. 7. Practice journalism with one of these follow up assignments - Create an interactive news magazine cover. - Use iMovie and the mic on a camcorder to make a vox pop podcast. - Create a slideshow with captions using a Flash template. - Add b-roll to your video interviews. 8. Create a list of web links using del.icio.us, do research, and network with the class. 9. Create a Google map complete with photos and text to tell a story. 10. Contribute to the class wiki. 11. Final research project. |
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Who is your New York State Senator? Who is your New York State Assemblywoman? Who is your US Congressman? |
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Heritage Trail soon to connect with Middletown
View Proposed route through Middletown in a larger map
June 13-17, 2011
Feedback loop
Libya; election fraud; coming home; senior prank; Middie Pride; future plans; what will you miss?
Imprisonment
Ratko Mladic; California prisons; Public schools charge for basics; Decline in crime.
created by Jose Canario
Peace in the Middle East; fighting for the right to tell lies; Panera bread; promise of Arab uprisings
Energy
Oil; nuclear; coal; garbage; Egypt; Libya; layoffs; evolution; immigration; muppets
Osama Bin Laden 1957-2011
Bin Laden news roundup; 10 billion people; the face of war; African middle class; Bloomberg lays off thousands
Poor people or rich farmland?
School board; deportations; birthers; father and son cellmates; citizen journalism; lessons in bridge
War photography
Journalists die so we can see; Kiryas Joel; girls and pink; Pulitizer prizes; gender stereotypes
Net neutrality
Schools off the cliff; government shutdown; loosies; offshore drilling; online learning; 50 books for children
Shrinking packages
NY Times blames the victim; teaching climate change; Libya; food inflation; going nuclear; Koran burning
The end of the phone call?
More budget news; respect for Wikipedia; tween idols; the invention of teenagers; obituaries
Libya, Morocco, Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt
How we relate to other animals; Middletown budget; more pain in Japan; The New York Time$; bus crash insights
It's not over in Wisconsin
Tsunami in Japan; revolt in Libya; Islamophobia; blame your teachers; America is not broke
Shrinking school budgets
Budget cuts: the big picture, closer to home; basketball no shows; First Amendment upheld
Walk like an Egyptian
Mini research papers: Mid West; Mid East; schools; Triangle Shirtwaist fire
The Hive Mind
Collective consciousness; post your own story; Middletown relay team; high school as social media
Where will you get your news?
Egypt and Facebook; remembering Reagan; census results; artificial intelligence
Protests in the Middle East
Egyptian protests; Behaving like children; Disney princesses; College stress
Do not reduce Dr. King's message to another Hallmark card day
Martin Luther King and war, social injustice, charter schools; extreme parenting; no country for young people
A turning point in our history?
Assassination attempt; Obama and the rich; long distance romance; mass animal deaths
Looking back and looking forward
End of year lists; predictions; project censored; 150 friends
Happy Holidays
Best of 2010; Best ideas of the year; ready for a gay president; world gone wild?
Republican Obama?
Tax breaks for the rich; hackers for wikileaks; execution for wikileaks; the Dream Act
Diplomacy
The Wikileaks storm; states in debt; Big Bang; digital bullies; bear knives; Derek Jeter; zombies
Values
War machines; Black Friday; American Transcendentalism; Death penalties.
Growing up digital; Google fashion; Class size; Haitian cholera; The shadow scholar; Radio Raheem.
Graffiti as art and protest
Veterans; air strikes; cigarettes; nazis; and cellphones.
Fear
The history of fear: present fear; sky fear; conspiracy fear; past fear; and more.
WikiLeaks and toxic leaks
The bell is back, War in Iraq, Lead in Wallkill, Republicans look to take control.
Say it with cookies
Obama, trains, Oreos, elementary school memories, and graphic organizers.
The First Amendment
Free Speech and teachers, hate, obscenity, students, and Middletown.
Pictures worth 1000 words
Strong feelings
At Ground Zero - mosques and 9/11 theories; news with a slant - taking sides on the death penalty.
The new journalism
Where do you get your news; newspaper death watch; politics right and left; learning about links.
Welcome to a new semester!
Plotting a course: figuring out the software; taking the polls; reading the rules; considering the possibilities.