Beautiful Findings

As I was working on my outline, I decided to go back and look over my notes from the PBMF Workshop and came across a page entitled, What Is News?
I don't know why it took me so long to look at my notes because there is a lot of good information in there. A good piece of info that I found is the definition of news, and what people consider news.

Now all I have to do is keep going through my notebook and see what else I can find.

Movin' Along

Over the weekend I had some trouble with my proposal, but I figured it out so now I should be able to finish...hopefully. Next is doing my outline, and then I can start my paper.

The library didn't get my books in yet, so now I have to wait another day or two to finish my research, and plus I'm having issues getting my interviews set up.

I'm not stressing too much about it because I already have my action plan done, so its just basically researching and writing for the next couple of weeks.

How fun...

Salvation at last!

First I would like to thank Mrs. Savido for helping me realize that I've already done my action plan. I am happy that I don't have to worry about it, but I must admit I was kind of excited about starting a teen online newspaper. I think I still might do it. I actually must thank Mr. Hamilton of helping me develop the idea of starting a online newspaper.

I guess I can't worry about that right now anyway since I still have a ton of work to do. I need to request books from the library, find more info online, and finish up my proposal and outline. Hopefully all this can be done by next Tuesday in the first half of class. I don't have time to keep playing catch up at this point.

Thank GOD!

I knew I needed something to get my brain juice flowing, because that I have an awesome action plan, I know a lot more about what I'm researching. All I need to do is get my thoughts together and I'll actually have an essential question. YAY ME!

Mercy Mercy Me

I NEED an essential question, because I am so lost as to what I have to research. Everything I type into the search box just returns articles written by teens, so I think my best source is going to be interviews with people. I have several different people that I could interview, but the problem is getting into contact with them, and them having the time. Mrs. Savido/Mr. Hamilton and I need to have a sit down really bad so I can get moving on this project or I'm worried that I'm just going to have to go back to my old one.

I know I can get it done, and get it done well, but I need a lot of help right now.

Restart!

I most certainly do not want to restart my whole project, but journalism is what I am really interested in and I think I'll do really well on this project...I just wish I would have thought of it ALOT earlier.

for now, these are my starting ideas that I need to narrow down so I can get moving...

Print

• local
• events
• fashion
• arts/entertainment
• special interest
• editorials/opinion
• national/international

Broadcast

• same as print
  
• breaking news
• tragedy
• gossip
  
• sensationalist

Web

• attention grabbing
• convenience
• video
• blogs
• gossip
  

Radio

• opinion
• on going reports
• music

HS newspapers

• HS events
• HS news

Current Events

• local
• national
• global
  

Did You Know....

Expanded studies have showed that there is a higher percentage of mental illness in blacks
http://www.consumerstar.org/pubs/AAMH.pdf

African Americans are more likely to use the emergency room for mental health issues
http://www.allaboutblackhealth.com/new_page_19.htm

Incidence Rate for Mental illness: approx 1 in 4 or 22.10% or 60.1 million people in USA
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/m/mental_illness/stats-country.htm

In addition, 4 of the 10 leading causes of disability in the U.S. and other developed countries are mental disorders-major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder
http://www.geocities.com/bipolargirl187/mental.html

Late-life depression affects about six million adults, but only 10 percent receive treatment

Depression will be the second greatest cause of premature death and disability worldwide by the year 2020
http://www.everypurpose.org/statistics/statistics.htm

Four of the 10 leading causes of disability—major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder—are mental illnesses
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih5/mental/guide/info-mental-a.htm

Mental illness usually develops during early adulthood (ages 18-24)

Treatment for patients with mental illness is 60-80% effective
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/BC0168_S9/Student%20Pages/statistics.html