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ONW Students Receive Laptops
By Josh Burton

This week at Olathe Northwest, all students have been given district issued Dell laptops for their own educational use at school.

The laptops will be used by students throughout their school day and teachers will be encouraged to create lessons incorporating the devises.

The Dell laptops that were given out are very portable and extremely easy to use both at home and at school.

Chris Zuck, the principal at Olathe Northwest said: “I truly hope that these new devices will help to enhance our students’ learning at school as we continue to modernize our classrooms.”

Olathe Northwest is not the first Olathe school to receive electronics, however, as these laptops have already been distributed to multiple other high schools in the Olathe school district.

Now the Olathe schools will continue the next step of this long process: making these devices an essential part of their classrooms.


This above piece of writing is my written news story. In the making of this, I first had to decide what I wanted to make my story about. I decided to use the distribution of Dell laptops as my topic. Then, I had to come up with a title that clearly and concisely displayed what the news story would be about. Next, I had to use the "inverted pyramid" to help display my information in a descending order of importance. That way, the reader will get the information they need to know first, and then they will learn about some additional details. I also used quotes to give a unique perspective of the story. The quote should come from someone who is an authority for the topic, or else it won't be very credible.

What I liked about writing this news story was that it allowed me express information in a uniform and logical manner. Generally I enjoy writing about real stories and talking about facts and information, so I really enjoyed that aspect of this assignment. Some skills I may still need to work on is including more quotes in my news stories. In this one, I only used one quote, but I probably should've used at least one other. However, I believe I did a very good job at putting the most important information first, and additional details later on. I could probably still use a little more practice with this, but as a whole I thought I did a very good job with this. I believe this project will definitely help me in writing my voiceovers and sequencing my videos in the future because now I know the importance of showing important details first. As a whole, this project was very useful and I think it will help me a lot with some of my future work.

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