On Sunday, the Western Plains High School Class of 2010 received their diplomas in the high school gymnasium at Ransom.
The class elected to forgo a traditional speaker and have an elongated slide show highlighting the lives of each student. I made the slide show for them, and I am sharing it here today.
The ceremony was short and sweet, during which I also shot pictures because the journalist in me is just too strong. I will share those on here Tuesday.
For now, here is the slide show, and if you were at the ceremony Sunday, I promise the audio sounds better on here than it did in the gym.
Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of media at Sterling College in Kansas. Previously, he taught yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine, and online journalism in various Kansas high schools, and he ran a weekly newspaper in rural Kansas. He continues to freelance as a professional journalist from time to time. Also, Vogts is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Journalism Education Association (JEA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), among others. He earned his Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2022. When he’s not teaching or writing, he runs his mobile disk jockey service and takes part in other entrepreneurial ventures. He can be reached at twitter.com/toddvogts or via his website at www.toddvogts.com.
