Goal for staff: Make each day your masterpiece. You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be.

Goal for editors & advisor: Define success for those under your leadership as total commitment and effort to the team's welfare. Then show it yourself with your own effort and performance. Most of those you lead will do the same. Those who don't should be encouraged to look for a new team. — John Wooden

Monday, October 8, 2012

Day 14: Check-ins, COD, and more

A Team: check-in about article
B Team: check-in about article
C Team: final draft due!

 Class time
1. COD schedule: The Voice needs three people at every session. Each session will be videoed, and a short brief will be written. The brief must contain a minimum of four sources. We need to divide up coverage and write a letter to teachers about missing classes.

 Thu
D: Holland & Abbie
E: Jordan & Philip (photo)
F: & Lena (Jenny)
G: Abbie

 Fri
A: class is attending
C: Sara & Claire (Bob) & Sam & Abbie (Nancy) & Eliza
B: Bryn (Chris), Andrew

 2. The logistics of voter registration and election day: We are going to register voters the week of 10/29 - 11/2 for the MA Presidential election . This will require staffing a table in the café during lunch. We will need three people at each lunch working the voter registration table:

 Mon 10/29: Lena & Claire & Alberto
Tue 10/30: Sara & Philip & Dan & Bryn
Thu 11/1: Abbie & Eliza & Sam
Fri 11/2: Jordan & Holland & Andrew

 3. On election day (Tuesday November 6) we will have the polls open from 7:45AM - 3PM. All adults and students who registered are eligible to vote. We just need to create a schedule for keeping the polls open.

 D: Bryn
G: Abbie & Dan
Break: Holland & Sam & Claire
E: Andrew & Lena & Jordan
Lunch: Sara & Abbie & Philip
F: Alberto

 For both registration and election day, we will need to create google forms. The forms will ensue anonymous voting and quick and easy results. For registration, the form needs to be as similar to the real voter registration document as possible. For election day, we want the form to look like the real ballot and include

 4. Working on our session:

  • Decoding the Spin:  Looking for Truth in Election Coverage: Mary’s Journalism students will join Eugene Kiely, Deputy Director of Factcheck.org, SF Chronicle political blogger Joe Garofoli, Bay Area News Group political writer Josh Richman, and former journalism professor and current UC-Berkeley Librarian Tom Leonard for a conversation about how to find the truth amidst the avalanche of contradictory claims in the coverage of American elections.

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