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Portfolio Projects - Quarter III
As always, these projects may be completed in any order you wish. DO NOT PROCRASTINATE! Each involves at least a week of work and advance planning.

Section editors are only responsible for Project II. Layout editors are only responsible for Project I. These projects must be handed in by the 2nd deadline.

Deadlines:
I: Friday, February 15th II: Thursday, March 20th

Project I
Read the guidelines for interviewing provided by Ms. Brown. Choose a subject in the school - teacher, students, custodian, whomever - and write ten //great// interview questions. Borrow an ipod and conduct your interview. Be sure you have your subject's permission to record and broadcast their words. Upload your interview to GarageBand and edit it. Post it to Bradford Bloggers and write a 300 word profile, based on the interview. Post the profile you write to your blog along with the recorded interview.

This will also count as your blog post for this week.

Note: For help with GarageBand, ask any student who took Beginning Journalism last year.

Important Information for Recording interviews and importing them into GarageBand:
The new iPods have two settings for recording. In order to play the recordings in GarageBand you have to choose high quality in the Voice Memo settings. To do this 1. Plug in the microphone 2. Choose Voice Memo from the Menu 3. Choose Quality 4. Choose high.

To convert a recording that has already been recorded at low quality - 1. Go to iTunes, 2. Select the recording 3. Go to the Advanced Menu, 4. choose Convert Selection to Mp3. 5. You will then see two copies of the recording in your itunes playlist. 6. To figure out which one is the Mp3, select the recording, go to the file menu and choose get info (or use the apple i shortcut). The Mp3 file is called Mpeg-2, Layer 3. 7. You can rename the file under the info tab, so you know which one is an Mp3.

Good luck!

Project II
Choose a daily newspaper that you enjoy reading. Choose one section of that newspaper to follow for a full week (sports, opinions, arts, news, features (health, entertainment, education...etc.)

Keep a story idea journal on your wikipage, based on this reading. Your journal must meet the following guidelines:

For each day - Monday - Friday, list the stories covered in the section you are reading. Next, choose at least two stories EACH DAY, read them in their entirety, and discuss how we might cover them in //The Bradford.//

Note: Even if we don't meet on a particular day, you are still checking your section and writing a journal entry.