Email I sent to my Journalism Friends

Hey gang!

For any of you that don't already know me pretty well, my name is Brittany Mazzola. As most of you know, I'm doing my student teaching at Delta right now. I'm contacting each of you because I know you do amazing work in our field and I'd love for you to help me teach the kiddos something about it. I'd really like to bring in a lot of interesting people to talk to my classes about their experiences at Ball State University. (And for you education majors, here's some practical experience!)

I'd like to do lessons on:

Color theory

Photography

Photoshop (or Gimp, which is probably more preferable to them since they have it for free)

Design (newspaper and yearbook)

Alternative copy/structure

Leadership

Ethics

Where you can "go" in journalism

Practical uses of journalism

(Or anything that you guys can come up with)

All of these lessons will be after our spring break. We get back on the 29th of March and I'm at Delta til very early May. I have sessions of journalism in both the morning and afternoon. I'm particularly shooting for my 3rd and 7th period. This means from about 9:40 to 10:30 and 2:15 to 3:05. If you can come before either of those times, we could work with the newspaper staff.

Please look through the list of who I have sent this to and let me know if anyone knows someone who would be interested in helping me.

If you could respond with any available times and dates and what you might be interested in, I would appreciate it GREATLY. You could can't imagine how much the kids would love to have college students in the classroom teaching them about so many different aspects of journalism.

So please, friends... help a fellow journalist out.

Thanks,

Brittany