2008-09 Projects
This page holds links to the final projects done by students in JOUR 1905; by students working on radio production at Gordon Parks High School; and students at Ubah Medical Academy working on the school newspaper.
The Ubah Medical Academy Student Newspaper
... is housed at My High School Journalism, a website provided by the American Society of Newspaper Editors
http://my.highschooljournalism.org/mn/hopkins/uma/
The Gordon Parks students' work is in progress. One student, Stephanie Signone, finished an interview project on the military and the Iraq War. Here is a link to the page where the project is posted, wrightswords.com. Will Wright was the research assistant for this project over the summer and fall of 2008.
http://wrightswords.com/stephanie_GPHS/soundslider.swf
The students in JOUR 1905, Civil Rights and Journalism, have created some wonderful projects for younger students. Here are a few links and descriptions of a few of the multimedia pieces.
Yasmin Odowa created a slide show about the Great Black Migration and the role of the Black press:
http://gooner.webng.com/slideshow/
Jennifer Bissell and Caitlin Mitchell created this slideshow about the importance of social protest, and the legacy of Ida B. Wells.