Week 12 Homework
This is the story I decided to write about.
The story has a lot of statistics in it, so the first way I would digitally enhance the story is by including a bar graph or a pie chart. This graph could show the percentage of middle schools that allow cellphones, and/or what amount of middles school children have cellphones and bring them to school every day.
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The second way I would digitally enhance the story is by including a poll. This poll could show how many people support children taking phones to middle school, and how many do not. It could also show one of the statistics from the previous paragraph, about how many middle school kids bring cellphones to school.
A third way to digitally enhance the story would be by adding more photos. The story is long and there are a lot of paragraphs, so adding a couple of pictures to break up the story a little bit would make it easier to read.
Another possible way to enhance the story would be to add a link in between a couple of the paragraphs so the reader can share the story to Facebook or Twitter, or some other social media site. This link could include a pre-written tweet, so the reader wouldn’t have to even think about what they’d write when they shared it.
The fifth and final way I would digitally enhance this story is by adding a chart somewhere between a couple of paragraphs stating the pros and cons of allowing kids to have cellphones in middle schools. By stating both sides of the argument, the chart could help the reader develop an opinion about the topic. This could possibly help them decide, if the issue ended up being voted on, what way they lean.
