Wednesday 28 March Investigative reporting project

Investigative Reporting Project.
In groups of two or three (maximum), (you may also work independently...talk to me)your team will choose an investigative topic of national or local interest to report on. Each group member will equally contribute articles from a different angle or issue that is related to the overall topic.
Your group will then organize their articles into a minimum two / three page spread complete with headlines, photos, graphs, and statistics or information boxes. (The page number reflects the number of people in your group.) Lastly, the groups will complete a six to seven minute Prezi presentation that documents their findings and share it with the class. 
Summary / Checklist:
1.  Prezi Presentation: Only one prezi account is needed per group, although each person will work on the final product. This should consist of primarily images and selected, minimal words / quotes from your report. As in a good Power Point presentation, you are the speaker and the technology supports you. (Group Grade- if you are not available on the day of the presentation, but your contributed material is, you will recive a 70 for this part) These will take place the Wednesday after the break on April 18.

2. Printed Material: your group will hand in the your news that includes a minimum of one article for each member of the group,(make sure your name is identified after the article's headline)  an equal number of photos and one item from a statistical chart or graph. (group grade based upon effective use of publisher or comparable MAC program.) This will be collected at the beginning of class on Wednesday April 17.  NO LATE MATERIAL WILL BE ACCEPTED.

3. Printed Material: separately hand in your personal article that you contributed to the paper. (individual grade based upon grammar, punctuation, style and content) Due Tuesday April 3. If you have not sent it in, consider that you are now working independently. That means you are responsible for an individual prezi, and your partner (s) must adapt as well. Communicate with your partner(s). Length of each article: minimum 250 words. Make sure you acknowledge your sources and include quotes.

4.Grading each other: In order to promote work equitablity, each member of the group will grade the other (s). This will go in the 40% category. I will distribute the rubic.
FOR Wednesday: PLEASE POST YOUR GROUP AND TOPIC CHOICE (no duplicates within a class) Below are some ideas. Talk to me if you have something else in mind. Possible investigative reporting topics Surveillance issues: 1.airports, 2. traffic, 3. schools, 4. national borders, 5. satellite technology 6. Homeland Security 7. Head coverings for women 8. Interrogation techniques (www.us-government-torture.com) 9. Disaster Funds- think of natural disasters. 10. Bullying 11. Gang stalking /covert harassment 12. Space weapons ((microwave, electromagnetic, radio frequency, acoustic, infrasound, laser) 13. Condom distribution in schools 14. Experimentation on human subjects using various electronic devices and weaponry 15. feral animals in Monroe County 16. HIV and Monroe County 17. Hospital care – there are numerous angles here. 18. Poverty pimps: Nonprofit organizations seem happy and good from the outside, but from the inside, they can prove devious. 19. Jail occupancy 20. racial achievement gap 21. violent crime in Monroe County 22. Paying for an election 23. clinical drug trials 24. juvenile justice in Monroe County 24. local terrorism preparedness 25. prostitution in Monroe County 25. Food safety 26. Global Warming 27. College athletes and academics 28. nuclear energy 29. Fraking 30. coal as energy 31. alternative fuels 32. cost of flying 33. medical research 34. obesity 35 international sex trafficking 36 race and the media 37 charter schools 38. car safety


Thursday and Friday- March 29 and 30 and Monday and Tuesday April 16 and 17.  This is the time to do your individual research and take your notes, including source material and any quotes you may want to include. Plan so that you can send along your well-written article by Tuesday April 3. Remember that if it's not in, you are considered to be working independently and are responsible for an individual newsletter and prezi. 
 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday April 3, 4 and 5 Send along your work to a team member, who should put the newsletter together. Another member should start assembling the Prezi.
Monday and Tuesday April 16 and 17 ...last days to get everything together.
Wednesday April 18...every group or individual will turn in their completed newletters. Prezi's will begin.