Process - Webquest

Team Roles

Let's start! Form teams of 3 people and think of a name for your News Program.

Do activities 1 and 2 as a team.

1. A Journalistic Team: West Acton High School in London

What is an Editorial Team?

Watch this video (edited from Teacher's TV) and see how students in West Acton High School in West London form their own journalistic teams and distribute their roles.

Answer the questions:

1. How many people are there in the journalistic team?
2. Mention the 7 roles the students will perform.
3. Where will the students post their work?

2. Your roles

Each of you will concentrate on different news.

Now you have to choose your role.

Have a look at the three possible roles and discuss it with your team mates. Write the roles and the names in a sheet of paper and give it to me.

                        Editor/Presenter

You are the coordinator and spokesperson of your team. You have to make sure that everybody is doing their job and check it from time to time. These are your central tasks:

a) Coordinate your team's work

As the team coordinator, you should know what your mates are doing and try to anticipate possible problems you may have as a team. Editorial meetings will help you structure your ideas and think of your work. Remember that your project is cooperative so you should all work tight to get a good final product.

Have a minimum of 5 Editorial meetings:

• Editorial meeting 1 in Step 1: introductory activities. Team organization.
• Editorial meeting 2 in Step 2: from a report to a script.
• Editorial meeting 3 in each role of Step 3: which is your story?
• Editorial meeting 4 in Step 4: bulletin creation.
• Editorial meeting 5 in the evaluation section: team assessment.

When you finish your Editorial meetings, review everything the team said, discuss it with your teacher to upload the video.
Let's start!

When your team mates have chosen the stories for their report, complete Editorial Meeting 3.

b) Present and structure the News Broadcast bulletin

Each member of the team will record his/her piece of news. You have to record your introduction and how you will introduce each of the journalists. You can have a look at this model.

Remember to save it. Then, you can put your 3 team files together and edit them with Audacity.

c) Check technology

Make sure you know how to use our working tools.

d) Pre-select jingles and sound effects

Background effects. Browse through the webs and find any jingles and sound effects you may need for the News Broadcast bulletin. 

e) Help and advise your team mates

Help your team mates record and edit the script. 

                                     Local news-World news

You are in charge of the Local News and World news desk. This can include any story related to your town/city and a foreign country.

Now that you know how to write a script, let's start. Go back to the Treasure Hunt if you have any doubts on how to write it.

a) Choose your story

It's your job to choose a good story. Finding the best story is not an easy task. Here there are some points you can consider:

• Type of audience/listeners (age, interests, level of English,...)
• Your level of English.
• Your interests and knowledge.
• Length of your piece.
• The time you have to do your part of the task.
• Your team's previous decisions (if any).

 When you know your story, tell the editor in your team and have Editorial Meeting 3 to discuss about your topics.

b) Analyse your story and plan your script.

c) Create your own script for the story. A journalist normally reads 3 words to a second. Your script should be about 30 seconds so calculate the number of words you need. The script template will help you. When you finish, create your script.

d) Talk to the editor of your team.

e) Add background effects. Talk to the editor. He'll help you with that.

f) Record and edit the script.

g) Create your final version and save it. Save it in the team's folder. Tell the editor in your team when you've saved it.

                                         Entertainment

You are in charge of the entertainment desk. This can include any story related to films, books, extra activities in your school, sport, etc.

Now that you know how to write a script, let's start. Go back to the Treasure Hunt if you have any doubts on how to write it.

a) Choose your story

It's your job to choose a good story. Finding the best story is not an easy task. Here there are some points you can consider:

• Type of audience/listeners (age, interests, level of English,...)
• Your level of English.
• Your interests and knowledge.
• Length of your piece.
• The time you have to do your part of the task.
• Your team's previous decisions (if any).

 When you know your story, tell the editor in your team and have Editorial Meeting 3 to discuss about your topics.

b) Analyse your story and plan your script.

c) Create your own script for the story. A journalist normally reads 3 words to a second. Your script should be about 30 seconds so calculate the number of words you need. The script template will help you. When you finish, create your script.

d) Talk to the editor of your team.

e) Add background effects. Talk to the editor. He'll help you with that.

f) Record and edit the script.

g) Create your final version and save it. Save it in the team's folder. Tell the editor in your team when you've saved it.

Tip:

                              Individual Process Diary

The Individual Process Diary is a personal diary about the activities you do.
It will help you think about what you are doing and see how you can improve things.
You have to complete it individually every day when you finish the session.

Complete activities 1 and 2. When you finish, move on to the steps.

There are 4 different steps to complete the task. In Step 1 you'll learn some interesting things.
In Step 2 you'll learn how to write and broadcast your script.
In Step 3 you'll work individually and prepare your own piece of news.
Finally in Step 4, you'll join your team to prepare and edit the final bulletin.
Go through them in the order they are presented.
Follow the instructions and don't start an activity if you haven't finished the previous one.

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