Every quarter, the B-UHS Journalism class publishes a newsletter
that they pass out to students around the school. These newsletters consist of
articles written by the student journalists, compiled to showcase the students’
work and provide information to the student body. However, since these only
come out once every quarter, many might wonder where they can find the most
recent and developing stories. This is where our website, Destination
Information, comes in.
The journalism website updates frequently, adding new pieces as
they’re submitted, with the goal of satisfying the search for school and local
news while waiting for the quarterly development. To keep things interesting,
the website also features an information panel of upcoming events throughout
the school year, links to school-related websites, and a poll, which is updated
weekly.
This week, to get the ball rolling, a simple question was asked.
“What is your favorite color?” It wasn’t a particularly interesting question,
but was meant to serve as a base for the polls. This poll is important to the
site and the school because it allows students to respond to various prompts
throughout the year and see how they compare to other students. The responses
were few, because not many know about the site yet, as it is in its infancy and
was only recently put online. They were: 1 blue, 2 pinks, and 1 red. Other
colors, which were not voted on, were yellow, purple, orange and green.
Among some people asked their familiarity with the website were
Lindsay Cutlip, Brittany Bonner, and Shayla Mackey. Lindsay replied, saying
she’d heard of it before, and the other two didn’t know it existed. Because the
site isn’t yet well-known, the same question was asked to students in person. These
results: 7 blues, 3 greens, 1 pink, 3 purples, 2 reds, and 1 yellow. The only
one not chosen in person was orange, which makes it the only unanimously least
favorite color.
Tallying the votes, there were 8 blues, 3 greens, 3 pinks, 3
purples, 3 reds, and 1 yellow. Other than the outliers, yellow and blue, the
population seemed to be split of which color was the favorite. However, this is
a small sample of the student population, and does not necessarily reflect the
overall school’s opinion.
Shayla wanted to share what she thought could make this new site
and the poll feature better. She thought things that would help to provide for
the school would be effective in gathering support, and as for questions to
ask, “How do you learn best?”
Especially in this early stage, it’s important everyone knows how
to get to this website, because not many are informed on how to access it. Mrs.
Miller, when asked, said she didn’t know how to find it or even what the name
was. As part of the effort to reduce this lack of knowledge, student
journalists are being asked to tell the students they interview about this site
and its poll, and teachers are also being asked to have classroom-wide
discussions about it. Hopefully, through this promotion, the poll will be
littered with input and the students’ opinions heard.
