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WEEK 4

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Hello everyone. As you are all aware, we returned from the New York College Media Association early due to the coronavirus and the city of NY shutting down. Students returned early and I arrived to a notification that our courses would be going online and that classes were cancelled on Wednesday and Thursday of that week. My intent was to have us online by Monday, March 23, and then a new notification alerted us that classes would be cancelled until March 30. With that said, we will begin our online classes on March 30. We are not allowed to assign any work until that time. Please make sure you are on Slack and that you are keeping up with notifications. We will be a couple of weeks behind, but I promise to make this transition as simple as possible. Be sure that you are also on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram so that we have all lines of communication open. I am available by text, email, and Slack. You will receive instructions to how this course will work by next week. Pl
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WEEK 3

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HEY EVERYONE:  AS YOU KNOW, THE EDITORS AND I RETURNED TO NYC AFTER A COMPLETE SHUTDOWN IN THE CITY. I HAVE CROSSED OUT EVERYTHING THAT DID NOT HAPPEN, AND CHANGES TO OUR SCHEDULE. Last week we discussed the idea of printing a 16-page magazine and ideas were pitched. You all set up Medium accounts and should have also have set up your social media accounts (Twitter, IG, Facebook) and followed all the student media as outlined on your syllabus. You also should have downloaded Slack, Check Slack daily! Your in-class writing assignment was to start blog entry using the title: Today Here are the instructions for your blog entry that is due on Wednesday, March 18 at the beginning of class. (It will be saved in your Medium account and I will have you submit it to me. Instructions will be provided in class) BLOG POST HEADLINE:  Today WRITE: Narrate your feelings on any day you choose. What happened to you today that made you feel this way? Was it a good day? A bad day? Did y
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WEEK 2

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Last week we had introductions and we discussed the look of our magazine and logo, and publishing on Medium.  You were given a history of our award-winning magazine, Substance. You were introduced to Lux Montes, the Editor in Chief of Substance. You also pitched story ideas. This week will consist of organization and the planning of the digital magazine and the sections we will have for this semester. This week we will begin by setting all of you up on the social media platforms, Medium, and getting your photos taken for press passes. We will always have a workshop at the beginning of each class so please be sure to be on time! This week we will talk about the benefits of blogging/journaling, and you will create an unfiltered blog post. IMPORTANT:  Remember that I, along with the students staff and editors, will be in NYC attending the CMA conference next week so the newsroom will be closed on Wednesday, March 11. NO CLASSES THAT DAY See you on Wednesday!
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WEEK 1

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Welcome to the JOUR 103 magazine writing and production class!! You will be the core group of students working on our award winning magazine, Substance. You will need to have a Twitter, Instagram and Medium account. You will also need to download the free Slack app as we will use it to communicate. Here is the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18sSPOdE8pSNWGs1jm7_JLuOJZSa3mt1mKaSJc0ycB5E/edit?usp=sharing See you on Wednesday!
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