The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Thursday, February 09, 2012

COMM 353 - notes on tentative assignments, copy flow for Bulldog Bytes ** UPDATE AFTER CLASS 02-14 **

Bulldog Bytes – mini workouts for the athletic mind –

pdf in 8.5 x 11 format

John led discussion, serving in a de facto editorial role


article / by ........ / length
  • yoga, pilates on campus - Robyn 500
  • baseball /fitness feature(Mike Reese) - Josh and Nick 1200
  • crossfit craze van 500
  • new sports on campus John 600
    options for Stacie -- 600 ... ?? fatass 5k – running piece


copy deadline – feb 21

first edits – feb 23 – march 8
ADDED IN CLASS Feb. 14: robyn and van – first tier editor, back to reader the writers by feb. 28 -- edit for commas, grammar – typos – awkward wording – pass it on to John …

second (final) draft – march 13
layout and design process – march 15-april 5

camera ready - printed by april 10
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.