The document outlines a student journalism program at Hopkinton High School that aims to revive and recreate the high school journalism program through a blended/hybrid class format. The program challenges students to create and manage publishable content about the high school and community in digital formats. It uses a project-based learning approach where students work collaboratively in editorial staff and reporter roles to manage story projects. The goals of the program are to empower students with digital literacies and the critical thinking skills of consuming, understanding, and producing journalism through various tools and formats like text, images, audio, and video.

1. Building a Student
Journalism Program:
Empowering Project-Based Learning
& Digital Literacies

2. Hopkinton High School
Fred
Haas
Sterling
Worrell
English teacher
fhaas at hopkinton.k12.ma.us
Photography teacher
sworrell at hopkinton.k12.ma.us
HHSPress.org

3. Our Challenge
Create a blended/hybrid class to revive and
recreate the high school journalism program

4. Hybrid Format
Rotating schedule of five meetings in seven days
Three face-to-face classes | Two online classes

5. Student Challenge
Create and manage publishable content about
the high school and community in digital format

6. Project Based Learning | Workshop
Create and manage publishable content about
the high school and community in digital format

7. Collaboration
Editorial Staff - Copy and Multimedia
Reporters - Departments and Self-Selection

8. Student Leadership
Editorial staff leads and manages the operation
reporting assignments, workflow, and publishing

9. Project Management
Student Reporters manage each story project
Editorial Staff manages reporters & story projects

10. Critical Thinking
Begin with consumption; how to read journalism
NewsU: Understanding Basics of Journalism

11. More Critical Thinking
Transition to production; how to create journalism
NewsU: Basic Reporting, Writing, & Photography

12. Self-Direction | Self-Selection
Reporters work both within departments of choice
Free to work outside of department with approval

13. Localizing
Regional, National, Global issues in local context

14. Quality Standards
All models from professional & college media
Continually improving over the time of program

15. Journalism Ethics
Code of ethical responsibility for journalists
Students make ethical decisions about stories

16. Communication
Goal: All work produced is with intent to publish
Form: Text, Image, Audio, & Video to suit content

17. More Communication
Producing content for real purposes & audiences
Articles are regularly republished with local news

18. Text and Image
Continue to develop a variety of story forms
All news stories include one or more images

19. Video
Transferring inverted pyramid style to video format
Documentary technique & Five-Shot Sequences

20. Digital Literacies
Contexts: Personal/Social, Learning/Workplace,
Media/Technology, Community

21. Tools of the Trade
Devices: iPad and iMacs, still & video cameras
Software: MOODLE, Wordpress, Flickr,Vimeo

22. Hopkinton High School
Fred
Haas
Sterling
Worrell
English teacher
fhaas at hopkinton.k12.ma.us
Photography teacher
sworrell at hopkinton.k12.ma.us
HHSPress.org