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Journalism students enter blogging challenge
By Ashley Mothershed Cougar News Blog Cactus Canyon’s student newspaper, The Cougar News Blog, has entered the 2013-14 EduBlogs challenge. Other schools have also entered the challenge from several...
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Edublogs Challenge – Week 6
Activity 2 – A Recipe From My Grandmother’s Home Country A food that I enjoy eating from my grandmothers home country are horseshoe cookies. My grandmother always bakes horseshoe cookies during the...
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Edublogs Challenge – Week 7
Activity 1 – How Connected Are CCJH Teachers? By Ashley Mothershed Cougar News Blog Teachers and staff members at Cactus Canyon Junior High are not very connected, social media wise. Very few staff...
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J2 students participate in Blog Action Day
By Cori Gibson Cougar News Blog CCJH journalism teacher Jason Davis had his students take part in Blog Action Day on Oct. 16 where this year’s theme was human rights. Each year, bloggers around the...
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Edublogs Challenge 8
Activity 1 – What Makes a Great Post? By Holly Stillman Cougar News Blog In my opinion the ingredients to an excellent post would be superb vocabulary, a proper writing structure and a topic that...
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Journalism class wins Edublog Award for Best Class Blog
By Holly S. Cougar News Blog Cactus Canyon’s Journalism II class won Best Class Blog in the EduBlog Awards at the end of last semester. The class took part in the EduBlogs Challenge starting in October...
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Journalism does round two of Edublogs
Cassidy Hoxeng Cougar News Blog Jason Davis’ advanced journalism class is participating in the spring Edublogs Challenge. After doing the fall challenge, the group earned an Edublog Award for Best...
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Spring Edublogs Challenge Week 2 – It’s a Small World
Activity 3 – Must-see Places in Arizona
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Spring Edublogs Challenge Week 5 – Memories
Activity 2 – If You Could Delete 2-3 Memories, Which Would You Delete and Why? The author of the following piece prefers to remain anonymous Memories are something that we will never forget till the...
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Journalism class wins Edublog Award for the second year
By Jessica Conrad Cougar News Blog Cactus Canyon’s Journalism II class recently won Best Group Blog in the Edublog Awards. This is the Cougar News Blog’s second year of winning an Edublog award....
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Edublogs Challenge – Halloween
Mr. Davis’ Note: CCJH J2 students are again participating in the Edublogs Challenge. The Week 4 activity was about Halloween and how it is celebrated. This post contains a sampling from students in the...
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Edublogs Challenge – Nature
Mr. Davis’ Note: CCJH J2 students are again participating in the Edublogs Challenge. The Week 7 activity was about nature. This post contains a sampling from students in the class. By Jake A. The...
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Editorial: Students getting priced out of college
College is one of the privileges that comes with living in a First World country, but unfortunately, that isn’t a possibility for many citizens. The price of college is something that needs to be...
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Editorial: Taxpayers spending too much money on stadiums
Since the mid ‘90s there has been a problem in almost every state – stadiums that have been paid for by the taxpayers. The new Vikings stadium in Minnesota cost the state a great sum of $1.1...
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Announcements move to video format
By Mya Palomino Cougar News Blog A new addition has been added to the morning announcements – video. In order to help more students be engaged with the news, the Journalism 2 students are...
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Media students earn CSPA Gold Crown
By Skyler Wolfe Cougar News Blog The Cactus Canyon online school newspaper, the Cougar News Blog, has won a Gold Crown Award that is given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Winners...
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We’ve Moved!
In an effort to continue to improve our coverage of Cactus Canyon, we’ve changed our name to the Canyon Chronicle and moved to a new website – canyonchronicle.com. We appreciate your visits and support...
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