General Information
Meeting ID: 952 1786 9233
Password: 2023CDE
Press Conference Materials
Practicums
Web Practicum
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Web Designer
Task: Develop a WordPress site. Time: 90 minutes to complete the practicum. Item to turn in: When completed, please submit the URL of your WordPress site. Instructions: Use the press packet and information that was gathered in the press conference to develop a WordPress site. The objective is to communicate the press conference speaker’s organization through appropriate design, navigation and use of provided photos and graphics. The designer may use the provided WordPress templates or customize the template. If you haven’t created a WordPress account, click on this link to access Wordpress. |
Video Practicum
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Video Producer
Task: Create a 60-90 second video. Time: 90 minutes to complete the practicum. Item to turn in: When completed, you have two options to turn in the video: 1. Directly upload your video file 2. If you posted the video on YouTube, submit the YouTube video URL Instructions: Use the selection of video clips, photos, and music and will create a 60-90 second video that promotes the client’s product or service. Students will not be recording a voice track. We recommend using Adobe Premiere Pro to create the video, but other software is allowed. If you haven’t created a free YouTube video, click on this click to access YouTube. |
Journalistic Practicum
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Journalistic Writer
Task: Write a news story (350 - 500 words) Time: 90 minutes to complete the practicum. Item to turn in: When completed, please upload a Word document of the news story. Instructions: Writers will write a 350-500 word journalistic piece based on the press packet and information that was gathered in the press conference. It should be written for an appropriate audience, have a strong focus and lead (opening paragraph) and include a headline. Notes: A news story discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers) or of a specific topic (i.e. political or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or technology news websites). A news story can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus the reader's attention on a particular (or main) part of the article. The writer should also give facts and detailed information following answers to general questions like who, what, when, where, why and how. |
Opinion Practicum
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Opinion Writer
Task: Write a Op-Ed (250 - 300 words) Time: 90 minutes to complete the practicum. Item to turn in: When completed, please upload a Word Document of the blog post. Instructions: Writers are to write a 250 - 300 word piece that takes a position and supports it with evidence based on the press packet and information that was gathered in the press conference. It should be written for an appropriate audience, have a strong focus and lead (opening paragraph) and include a headline. Notes: An op-ed, short for "opposite the editorial page", is a written prose piece, typically published by a North-American newspaper or magazine, which expresses the opinion of an author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board. Op-eds are different from both editorials (opinion pieces submitted by editorial board members) and letters to the editor (opinion pieces submitted by readers). |