Schedule for profiles and Q&A’s

Here is the lineup for profiles and Q&A’s. Today and tomorrow please fill out a Gargoyle story planner. When you do so, please include your preferred format (profile or Q&A). Give the completed planner to your editor. Meet with your editor by Wednesday of this week. After your conference, please give me your planner so I can take a look at it as well. 

There is no maximum length for your article. Minimum length is 500 words. Please consult past senior profiles and Q&A’s to get an idea of what’s expected.

Good luck!

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• Tue April 20: Anna (Langston) / editor: Hadley
• Wed, April 21: Elizabeth (Ben Suslick) / editor: Danny
• Thu, April 22: Eric (Tej) / editor: Katherine

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• Mon, April 26: Eleni (Sindha) / editor: Sindha
• Tue, April 27: Sindha (Gabe Smith) / editor: Eleni
• Wed, April 28: Nikita (Dan Lilly) / editor: Will
• Thu, April 29: Will (Miles Bribriesco) / editor: Sindha
• Fri, April 30: Kahlilah (Zack Goldberg) / editor: Nancy

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• Mon, May 3: Mohammad (Nathan Smith) / editor: Eunjung
• Tue, May 4: Jenny (Linda Ly) / editor: Kahlilah
• Wed, May 5: Nancy (Nile Hamer) / editor: Will
• Thu May 6: Eunjung (Tuli Bera) / editor: Mohammad
• Fri: May 7: Maritza (Ethan) / editor: Laura 

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• Mon, May 10: Katherine (Katie Buzard) / editor: Maritza 
• Tue, May 11: Revathi (Grace Man) / editor: Luke  
• Wed, May 12: Katy (Vivian Robison) / editor: Eric 
• Thu, May 13: Stephanie (Daniel Wilson) / editor: Elizabeth
• Fri, May 14: Laura (Alexx Engles) / editor: Anna

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• Mon, May 17: Danny (Diana Liu) / editor: Diana
• Tue, May 18: Hadley (Andrew Weatherhead) / editor: Katy
• Wed, May 19: Luke (Andrew LaPointe) / editor: Stephanie
• Thu, May 20: Elizabeth (Elizabeth Russell) / editor: Hadley  
• Fri, May 21: Anna & Sindha (Isaure & Loic) / editor: Revathi

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• Mon, May 24: Laura, Revathi, Eunjung, Laura (Rotary etc. — Tianna, Maria Gao, Hadley, Chris Yoder et al.) / editor: Chris & Danny
• Tue, May 25: Nancy (Claire B) / editor: Eleni
• Wed, May 26: Mohammad (Francois) / editor: Sindha

Schedule for senior columns

Note 1: Senior columns are not mandatory, but if you are a senior and don’t want to write a column reflecting on your Uni experience, you will have to write a final blog entry that meets my specifications in order to receive a grade for both the quarter and the semester.

Note 2: The schedule below is a publication schedule — i.e., these are the dates on which each column will be published. Please finish your column at least one day before your scheduled publication date. Also, please use one horizontal visual element with your column.

• Mon, May 17: Elizabeth, Stephanie
• Tue, May 18: Anna
• Wed, May 19: Katherine
• Thu, May 20: Diana
• Fri, May 21: Chris

• Mon, May 24: Maritza
• Tue, May 25: Hadley
• Wed, May 26: Sindha
• Thu, May 27: Danny
• Fri, May 28: Laura

Good luck, seniors!

Blog schedule for remainder of the year

Fewer than eight full weeks of class to go! Here’s our staff blog schedule for the rest of the year:

• Wed, March 31: Sindha
• Thu, April 1: Eleni
• Fri, April 2: No school

• Mon, April 5: Will
• Tue, April 6: Nikita
• Wed, April 7: Jenny
• Thu, April 8: Nancy
• Fri, April 9: Eunjung

• Mon, April 12: Mohammad
• Tue, April 13: Kahlilah
• Wed, April 14: Adam
• Thu, April 15: Diana
• Fri, April 16: Hadley

• Mon, April 19: Laura
• Tue, April 20: Maritza
• Wed, April 21: Katherine
• Thu, April 22: Danny
• Fri, April 23: No school

• Mon, April 26: Revathi
• Tue, April 27: Katy
• Wed, April 28: Elizabeth
• Thu, April 29: Anna
• Fri, April 30: Eric

• Mon, May 3: Luke
• Tue, May 4: Stephanie
• Wed, May 5: Eleni
• Thu, May 6: Will
• Fri, May 7: Jenny

• Mon, May 10: Nikita
• Tue, May 11: Nancy
• Wed, May 12: Eunjung
• Thu, May 13: Mohammad
• Fri, May 14: Kahlilah

• Mon, May 17: Adam
• Tue, May 18: Katy
• Wed, May 19: Revathi
• Thu, May 20: Eric
• Fri, May 21: Luke (final required blog entry of the year)

Monday, May 24, is the last day of classes; voluntary blog entries will be welcome as always.

Staff blog entry directions, again

Evidently some people have forgotten the procedure to follow when a blog entry is completed. Here it is, again:

1. You finish your entry on the scheduled day
2. You e-mail both Laura and Maritza and tell them you’re finished.
3. One of them will read your entry. If it’s good, they will publish it right away. If it needs to be revised, they will contact you with instructions.
4. If revision is needed, you will revise the entry and then let your editor (Laura or Maritza) know that you are finished.
5. Again, if the revision is satisfactory, your entry will be published. If not, more revision will be requested. Etc.

If you decide that your entry is big enough to become a column, let Maritza and Laura know as soon as you’ve come to that conclusion.

Directions for Agora team leaders

Team Leaders:

1. When you and your team members have finished your first drafts, create a single OG entry for all of your team stories.

2. Copy and paste each of the stories into the single entry.

3. Identify your entry by writing a main headline like this:

Agora Days ’10: Danny’s Team (or Chris’ Team, Will’s Team, etc.)

4. Each story within your entry will have a headline in bold (<b></b>) of its own. For the time being, write something basic for each.

5. Write a short intro in italics (<i></i>) at the top of your entry. The intro simply tells the reader what’s going on. See the intros to our various play diaries for examples.

6. Save your single entry, then delete the individual entries — but don’t delete until you are sure that your single entry has been successfully saved.

7. Pick out the photos to use with your team’s stories. I’ll help you put the photos into the entry, if necessary.

8. We’re going to start publishing the stories on Wednesday (Feb. 24). Here is the schedule:

• Wednesday, Feb. 24: Will’s team
• Thursday, Feb. 25: Danny’s team
• Friday, Feb. 26: Chris’ team
• Saturday, Feb. 27: Katy and Revathi’s team
• Sunday, Feb. 28: Hadley and Sindha’s team

If you are a senior team leader and will be on the class trip this weekend, make sure your entry is completed before you leave. Please stay in touch with me so I will know your progress.

Thanks, and good luck. 

Staff blog schedule until spring break

Yes, believe it or not, spring break is within sight — only four more weeks. Here is the staff blog schedule that we’ll follow until we get there:

Feb. 22-26

• Monday, Feb. 22: Nikita (this will be the entry that Nikita wrote before Agora Days but wasn’t published until now)
• Tuesday, Feb. 23: Sindha
• Wednesday, Feb. 24: Eleni
• Thursday, Feb. 25: Will
• Friday, Feb. 26: Eunjung

March 2-5

• Tuesday, March 2: Mohammad
• Wednesday, March 3: Jenny
• Thursday, March 4: Nancy
• Friday, March 5: Kahlilah

March 8-12

• Monday, March 8: Nikita
• Tuesday, March 9: Luke
• Wednesday, March 10: Eric
• Thursday, March 11: Stephanie
• Friday, March 12: Elizabeth

March 15-19

• Monday, March 15: Anna, Adam
• Tuesday, March 16: Revathi, Katy
• Wednesday, March 17: Danny, Hadley
• Thursday, March 18: Laura, Diana
• Friday, March 19: Maritza, Katherine

Agora Days 2010 — photo schedule during free periods

Here is the list of free periods during which OG staffers will take photos.

Reminder to photographers: Visit all the classes in your time slot. We don’t need a lot of photos overall, but we should strive for pictures of each class being offered. In other words, it’s better to have “only” 25 or 30 pictures that include all the classes during a period than 150 photos that focus on only a few classes.

• First Hour: Adam, Wednesday
• First Hour: Eunjung or Chris, Thursday
• First Hour: Chris or Eunjung, Friday

• Second Hour: Jenny, Wednesday

• Third Hour: Danny, Wednesday

• Fourth Hour: Mohammad, Friday

• Fifth Hour: Nancy, Tuesday
• Fifth Hour: Stephanie, Thursday

• Sixth Hour: Eric, Wednesday
• Sixth Hour: Will, Thursday
• Sixth Hour: Nikita, Friday

• Seventh Hour: Katy, Tuesday

• Eighth Hour: Eleni, Thursday
• Eighth Hour: Revathi, Friday

Reminder about your feature stories: You are responsible for making sure that we have at least one usable photo to go along with your Agora Days article. You can either take the photos yourself or arrange for someone else to take it.

Good luck!

Agora Days 2010 schedule — teams and stories

Except for those Gargoyle editors and reporters who are spending this week in Mississippi on the Habitat for Humanity trip , everyone on the OG will contribute a feature story about one of their Agora classes.

The feature should be 400 to 450 words long and can be written in the first or third person. Choose a class that lends itself to colorful description and use of dialogue. It can be a class in which you are a student or that you teach. Take notes, either written or mental (the latter if you are the teacher), during each day of the class.

Deadline: First drafts will be due at the end of Monday, Feb. 22. Send your draft to your team leader.

Here is the list of teams for the Agora ’10 project and the classes that each person has volunteered to write about. In a separate entry, I will publish a list of free periods during which staff members will take photos of the classes being taught during that time slot.

Team 1

• Danny Ge (team leader): Bridge Building, 4th hour
• Adam Joseph: Rocket Science, 7th
• Mohammad Jaber: Dodgeball, 4th

Team 2

• Chris Yoder (team leader): Ultimate, 3rd
• Eunjung Kim: Bones, 7th
• Nancy Tang: Firepit, 6th

Team 3

• Katy Metcalf (team co-leader): Cake Decorating, 8th
• Revathi (team co-leader): Miyazaki Movies, 2nd
• Stephanie: What’s the Stuff Inside the Chicken, 5th
• Eric Chen: Rubik’s Cube, 8th

Team 4

• Will Fernandez (team co-leader): Elementary Education, 2nd & 3rd
• Eleni Yannelis (team co-leader): Knitting, 2nd
• Jenny Cooke: Kindergarten, 6th
• Nikita Dutta: Quidditch, 5th

Several people who are in town this week have conflicts with our class period. Here is the team for those students:

Team 5

• Hadley Hauser (team co-leader)
• Sindha Agha (team co-leader)
• Kahlilah Cooke
• Luke Karmazin

Hadley and Sindha will be responsible for determining which classes each member of their team will write about. The only requirement is that we don’t duplicate classes.

Good luck with the rest of the week!

Staff blog update

Welcome back from the three-day weekend. Here is our next group of blog writers. Good luck!

• Tuesday, Jan. 19: Hadley
• Wednesday, Jan. 20: Anna
• Thursday, Jan. 21: Stephanie
• Friday, Jan. 22: Diana

• Monday, Jan. 25: Elizabeth
• Tuesday, Jan. 26: Revathi
• Wednesday, Jan. 27: Katy
• Thursday: Jan. 28: Eric
• Friday, Jan. 29: Luke

Eighth-hour update

See earlier entry on this week’s staff bloggers.

Hadley

• Ethan Stone in Belgium (Wed)
• Finish column on U of I (weekend)
• Remainder of things to do before you graduate (Fri, Jan. 22)

Danny

• ExploraVision (first person; edit Revathi)

Eric

• Winter formal “In Focus” photo (today)
• Poetry Out Loud preview (Fri)

Revathi

• Lisa Sproat showcase (Fri)
• ExploraVision with ? (Fri, Jan. 22)

Katy

• Music portion of entertainment guide (Mon)
• Top 10s with Will or others (by Mon, Jan. 18)
• Dinosaur comic feature (Fri, Jan. 22, or earlier)

Anna

• Theatrefest wrap-up (Mon)
• Winter formal photo essay with Kahlilah — Ito (Fri)
• Langston feature & showcase (Fri, Jan. 22)

Luke

• Video game portion of entertainment guide (Mon)
• Video game review (Wed)
• MMO pheomenom (Fri, Jan. 22)

Stephanie

• Roving Reporter logo (Mon)
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Katherine

• Remainder of things to do before you graduate (Fri, Jan. 22)
• _____________

Laura

• ____________

Maritza

• ____________

Elizabeth

• School mascot revision (Fri)
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