Jonathan Harper This year our Digital Design and Photojournalism Yearbook Course students learned how to research and design promotional campaign posts that would be used specifically for Instagram social media marketing. They were asked to read teenage activist Xiye Bastida’s essay “Calling In” to understand the difference between Climate Action and Climate Justice, which would be the … Read more…
In 2011, the United Nations adopted resolution 66/170: International Day of the Girl Child in which they recognized: “that empowerment of and investment in girls … are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights, and recognizing also that empowering girls … Read more…
This weekend I took my nine-year old niece to the Central Library in Los Angeles. She needed sources for a research report on the Great Wall of China. I was relieved to see that the assignment was decently constructed, though perhaps a bit out of date (the bibliography page showed a formula for a CD-Rom). … Read more…
Here is what I think about in the shower, as I drive, while I’m folding laundry. “How can I make sure students know that there are multiple professional trade journals for the candy manufacturing industry?” (I know of at least two, by the way— Candy Industry and The Manufacturing Confectioner.) What is wrong with me, you … Read more…
Selecting a research topic is probably the most critical and the most frustrating part of the entire process, as discussed in my prior post about the emotional spectrum of the information search process. It is fraught with uncertainty, which is the enemy of the grade-conscious high school student. According to Project Information Literacy, 37% of college … Read more…