Thanks and Contributions

This site was designed by Rene Cannon and Wendy James. They would like to take this opportunity to thank the individuals and organizations that helped in the creation of this site:

Individuals

• Bill Prentice, the English Language Arts Consultant at Saskatchewan Learning, for all his advice on teaching, learning, and the nature of curriculum. We admire Bill's passion for education.
• Karen Henderson, the Learning Resource Development Consultant for Saskatchewan Learning, for her technical help, sense of humor, and design suggestions.
• Judy Byers and Sherry Vetter of the Online Learning Center in the Saskatoon Public School Division for their technical advice and moral support in times of doubt.
• Michael Diakuw for image editing and readings.
• Our husbands, Devin Cannon (Rene) and Michael Diakuw (Wendy), for their continued desire to see us grow and change and their unfailing support on the home front.
• Scott Bennett of Horton High School, Greenwich, Nova Scotia for sharing his media resources with us and generously giving us permission to use and adapt them.
• Gerald Grow for sharing his resource, the Article Idea Game, and giving us permission to use and adapt it.
• Traci Lowe for sharing her wisdom about the radio business and CJVR FM radio for providing us with radio news scripts.
• Noemi LoPinto of the Meadow Lake Progress for providing insight into and examples of writing the news and writing editorials.

Groups

• The Saskatoon Star Phoenix for allowing us to interview staff members for the project, and in particular Donella Hoffman, Betty Ann Adam and Jason Warick for their willingness to share their understanding of journalism. The following are links to their interviews:
  
  • Why I Became a Journalist - Donella Hoffman (860 KB)
  • Working a Beat - Betty Ann Adam (834 KB)
  • The Value of Diverse Sources - Betty Ann Adam (1.03 KB)
  • The Role of Diversity in Journalism - Betty Ann Adam (971 KB)
  • The Challenges of Editorial Writing - Jason Warick (545 KB)
  • Finding the Idea for a Story - Jason Warick (1.57 MB)
  • Asking Those Hard Questions in an Interview - Jason Warick (751 KB)
  • Defining Libel - Donella Hoffman (640 KB)
  • Participatory Journalism - Jason Warick (898 KB)
  • The Inverted Pyramid - Jason Warick (489 KB)
    
• The Meadow Lake Progress for giving students in the province the opportunity to use their weekly newspaper as a template for design and layout. Their pages may be found in:
  
  • Parts of a Newspaper
    
• Planet S Magazine for the use of their cover designs. Sample cover can be found in:
  
• Introduction to Magazines
  
• CTV news for providing students with an example of a television news script. Sample script can be found in:

• Shooting and Editing Tape