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"Summer hath all too short a lease." - Shakespeare
By: Mr.Mattson Date: August 13, 2012, 10:56 am
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Hello all,
I trust that everyone is enjoying his or her summer, and I
imagine that after several, consecutive school-less weeks, most
of you have been able to unwind and de-stress from the rigors of
the school year. Sadly, September looms, and though I do not
wish to deprive you of any of the free time that still remains,
it is imperative that we get to work on The Highlander.
I was able to meet with most of the executive staff in June, at
which time each of you was told that I would be contacting you
at some point in August to prepare an article(s) for the paper,
so that we might have something to show the remainder of the
staff at our first open meeting. That time is now.
So, for those editors and staff writers for news, opinions,
features, and sports and wellness, you need to begin work on an
article ( on any topic you care to write on) that needs to be
submitted to Ben and Sachit ( via the online thread, but if you
still have trouble navigating it, you can just email one or both
of them) by next Mon., August 20. While this may seem like short
notice, you did in fact have the entire summer to prepare, so
chop-chop.
As for the arts editors, I would like to have you submit either
a photo, a scanned image of a painting or drawing, or an article
focused in some capacity on the 'Arts'.
Photo editors, we really need some pics, but the problem is, of
course, there's nothing yet to take pictures of, so, I was
thinking that maybe you can do some scavenging on Facebook for
'summer pics' of Herricks students. Heck, they can be just pics
of you and your friends, but make sure that the people in the
photographs know that they will be appearing in the school
newspaper.
P.R., while you don't need to 'do' anything as of yet, you will
need to begin planning a marketing campaign to let everyone know
that the paper has gone online. I'm thinking at least one
commercial, but anything else you have in mind would be awesome.
Also, we're going to need some figure out some way to advertise
or first open meeting for prospective staffers.
As for the fun and games section, I would like an idea for an
online poll (the website has a section for this), as well as
three fun and games 'things', for example, a cartoon strip, a
sudoku, a crossword, a horoscope, etc.
So, after you complete the task you have been assigned, Ben,
Sachit, Brian and I will get to work preparing the website for
our first editors meeting on Wed. , Sept. 5. Our first open
meeting will be on the following Mon., the 10th
B-Chen and I have been using the leftover articles from the
unpublished June edition of the paper to help get ourselves
acquainted with the site, so many of the articles you will find
are quite dated, but they'll give you a good idea of how things
will look. Any ideas or suggestions on how we might improve the
layout of the site would be greatly appreciated. On that note,
if we want to have our school logo in the header, we're going to
need someone to create a sample header in photoshop, so, if you'
familiar with the software, that would be a great help.
If you'd like to check out the website, here's the URL:
HTML http://herrickshighlander.com/
A couple of formatting points that B-Chen suggested:
1. The articles should no longer be indented. Instead, they
should have a space between each paragraph.
2. Encourage writers to use links in their articles because we
can do that now.
3. Writers shouldn't add two spaces after every sentence; it
makes the formatting really weird.
If you need any help or encounter any problems, feel free to
post them to the thread or email me directly at
tmattson@herricks.org.
So, here we go...,
Mr. Mattson
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