2/28/11

For reading time today, you have 5 minutes to research the Jonesboro shootings. What happened? Who did it? Why? What type of angle would you do for the story?
Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden. Killed 5 kids, injured 9 kids and 1 teacher. The shooters were very young. Golden pulled the fire alarm so the children would be outside, leading to an ambush. The shooters were planning to run away after this, but were caught.

We will continue taking notes on Writing a Story.

You should be thinking about a topic and an angle for your story. You will post it to your blog. You will also begin collecting data.

You should be able to summarize your story in three words: children gun crying

2/23/11

For today's reading you will be assigned one of the following articles to read and SHARE with your group.

2. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/12/us-student-inte/

Answer the following questions:

Which court standard did someone follow or break in your article? The Tinker Standard
Do you agree with the decisions in your article? I think they shouldn't have suspended the girl. There werent any threats
What do you feel should have been done in this instance? They should have just asked her to delete the group
What do you feel will be the future of rights in today's digital age? The rights will stay the same. not be limited
What rights do you have inside of school? limited speech
What rights do you have outside of school? freedom of speech

2/22/11

For Reading today: New York Times


We will take notes on Broadcast Journalism Law/Ethics

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?
religion, speech, press, assembly, petition

2. What is the Tinker Standard?
Student speech cannot be censored as long as it does not materially disrupt class work or involve substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
can censor vulgar or indecent speech

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
censorship of student expression is permissable if it interferes with a legitimate teaching concern

5. What is the Frederick Standard?


6. What is the definition of libel?

2/18/11

My score was 12 out of 30. I was surprised at getting a lower score. I think I'll retake it. The law is so complicated, so some answers seemed correct. It wasn't just a concern of common sense, but making difficult decisions.

2/17/11

16 to 20: Well the good news is that you don't need to pass a test or obtain a license to use the First Amendment. Still, we hope you'll spend a bit more time looking into the First Amendment's essential freedoms and how they apply. C'mon -- it's only 45 words!

I got 20 out of 30. Some of the questions were tough, but most were a no brainer. The difficult questions had to do with school policy. I was surprised to find out that schools can not limit speech. This includes harassing someone for their gender/ethnicity/beliefs, etc...

'Bieber Fever' Is a Symptom of What Ails the Music Industry

I think it's just so annoying when teenage girls send death threats to artists just because they beat Justin Beiber. The girls have to understand that sometimes the person that they think will win something, will not. But that stuff just happens. And girls who are sending death threats to celebrities that they think are in a romantic relationship with Beiber? Grow up. You aren't ever going to go out with Justin Beiber, so don't take offense. The reason he didn't get a grammy was because he is NOT a good artist.

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