Journalism 101

Most mornings during your two-week stay at BAMMA, you will attend a Journalism 101 course taught by our lead instructor, Mary Ann Hogan. Here are a few highlights from the course syllabus:

Welcome, Class of 2009!

Here is a list of supplies you will need for our two weeks together of learning about news and journalism:

• Notebooks and pencils.
• Access during all writing time to a dictionary (pocket or full size version is fine.)
• A www.NewsU.org sign on and password (You should have already created an account when you completed the homework assignments.)
• Your instructions were to go through two of the classes on NewsU with your sign-in, which is first initial of your first name alongside your last name -- "mhogan" for Mary Ann Hogan and "BAMMA" will be your password.
• You should have have completed the following online courses before BAMMA: News Sense, The Be a Reporter Game and Language of the Image.
• Basic understanding of how to type accurately and quickly on a computer, and of how the Internet works. (If you do NOT possess those skills, please let us know immediately so we can get you up to speed!)
• Curiosity and a desire to learn.

You'll want to commit this to memory:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

---First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America