Yearbook- The O'Connor Verdict yearbook, we will create yearbook design, photography, planning coverage, writing stories, writing captions, and completing an award-winning publication. Editor positions available: must complete application yearly. Yearly field trips to journalism conferences/conventions like ILPC at the University of Texas in Austin and downtown on the riverwalk for the TAJE Fall fiesta convention.
Learning sales management, business skills, promotion, and advertising.
Newspaper- The O'Connor Prowler newspaper, we will create newspaper design, writing stories, writing captions taking photography, designing, secondary coverage/graphic design, completing six issues of the Prowler yearly and online newspaper visit us at the website: studentnews.nisd.net/oconnor. Editor positions available: must complete application yearly.
Yearly field trips to journalism conferences/conventions like ILPC at the University of Texas in Austin and downtown on the riverwalk for the TAJE Fall fiesta convention. Learning sales management, business skills, promotion, and advertising.
Photojournalism- Work with Nikon and Canon cameras, begin to master the manual settings of your DSLR camera (cameras are not required) enhance skills, create compositions, improve photo editing using Photoshop/Lightroom, and basics of magazine design using Adobe InDesign. You will also create a Wix website for an online photo portfolio for your future use. Field trip to Japanese Tea Garden usually in the Spring.
