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You’ll learn skills for college and the real worldWriting. Editing. Social media. Time management. Working with others. Organization. Photography. Graphic design. Web Design. Interpersonal communication. Business skills. Budgeting. Videography, Video editing. Grammar. Punctuation. Defending your ideas. Understanding your First Amendment rights.These are just a few of the skills you will acquire in the Howell publications classes. Classes place an emphasis on making sure the publications are created by students for students. Spend enough time working on yearbook and newspaper and you’ll be running the show.

You’ll have funAbove and beyond what you will learn as a member of the yearbook, newspaper or web staffs, you will leave with memories of the great times you have had as a member of FHHS Publications. In FHHS Publications, you can eat as much pizza as you want, make friends from California to London, meet celebrities like Daniel Radcliffe and Laura and Lisa Ling, and travel to conferences in places like Anaheim, New York City, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, and more. Our students have also gotten photopasses to Warped Tour, gone backstage at Lifehouse, and have chances to review movies and music before they come out.

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Course informationJournalism is a semester-long course that explores all aspects of newspaper, magazines, yearbooks, broadcast and emerging media. Students will write, edit, design and apply media law and ethics knowledge. This course is the foundation course for the publication courses, and this course is required before taking Newspaper Production or Yearbook Production. This class can count as English credit or as practical arts.

Digital Photojournalism is a semester-long course exploring all aspects of visual journalism while using digital SLR cameras, digital video cameras and computers. Topics covered will included visual composition, operation of equipment, computer editing programs and media law and ethics. Assignments will be geared toward publication in one of the school publications. This course is strongly encouraged for students wanting to be in the Newspaper or Yearbook classes. This class is a practical arts credit.

Newspaper Production & Yearbook Production (now with honors point available) is responsible for the production of the school newspaper and website and yearbook respectively. Students are trained in writing, photography, design, business and emerging media. These are co-curricular courses and are practical arts credits. You must have approval from the instructor to sign up for these classes and must meet the prerequisites. Students must have taken Journalism or Digital Photojournalism first; however, some allowance may be made for web content programmers, graphic artists with CS3 experience and those students successfully taking AP Language & Composition. See Mrs. Dunaway for more information as all publications classes require an application and teacher approval.

You’ll do exactly what the professionals are doingStudents who are members of the publications staff work on both print and multimedia platforms writing stories, taking photographs, shooting video and designing for web and print products. In addition, we handle marketing and publicity, in the school and online through Facebook, Twitter, email and more.

The things you hear about happening for major publications in the print or digital world are the kinds of things we do daily. We have a Mac lab running Adobe software. If you love technology and pushing the envelope, the yearbook and newspaper are the place for you to be.

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You’ll fill your resume with honors and awardsWhile our main audience is the Howell community, we enter our work in competitions so we can consistently improve. And we admit it, the awards are pretty cool. It’s pretty awesome to rank among the best publications in the nation. Stop by the room to see all the staff and student plaques hanging on the wall.

The yearbook has placed 3rd and 6th in Best of Show, received an All-American rating from the National Scholastic Press Association. The website has placed 10th in Best of Show and the Spotlight newspaper has placed 5th and 7th in Best of Show. The Columbia Scholastic Press Association has ranked the Howelltonian as a All-Columbian and Gold-Medalist yearbook, given FHHSToday.com as a Silver Crown, and the Spotlight as a silver medalist in 2008 and 2009, and a Gold Medalist in 2010. Publications members have also placed in national JEA Write-off Competitions, State competitions, and won a variety of Gold Circle awards.

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