Here it is in writing: Take one of the observations or potential story ideas that you or one of your classmates posted to their blog, and speculate about how you would go about writing a story on it. What angle would you take? Who would you talk to? What would you ask them? Read the part about interviews in Don Murray's chapter on "Reporting for Surprise." Toward the end, he interviews a reporter on how to do interviews. How, specifically, could you use that reporter's tips in conducting your interviews? What problems might you anticipate in interviewing somebody on your subject? What would you do to prepare for the interviews? Post a paragraph or two in answer to these questions to your blog before class Wednesday.
Here's a link to our directory of class blogs. It has links to most of them.
By the way, I'm glad to see more people posting to the blogs today. I'd been getting a little worried about several of you. There's still plenty of time for everybody to get caught up, even though some of you have quite a bit of catching up to do. But we've been in school almost a month now, and the semester isn't going to last forever. If you're not one of the three or four people who have been keeping up with assignments, it's time to start getting caught up!
TEACHING B/LOG started out as a classroom teacher's journal/log with notes and comment on the politics of higher ed and learning outcomes assessment at a small liberal arts college. After several years on hiatus, it was revived in 2014 as a portal to updates and commentary on corporate school "reform," politics and the creation of a hereditary aristocracy in 21st-century America
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