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Schooltube contest: Win a trip to see the Black Eyed Peas in NYC
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet Here is a quick contest for your students to keep them engaged these waning days of school. They just need to submit a 1-3 min video on why they deserve to have the “Time of their Life” in New York City. Winners get an all-expenses paid trip to New York City and tickets to [...]
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FHNtoday.com reporter uses UStream to keep viewers updated on weather and road conditions
Posted on 09. Feb, 2011 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet People are increasingly visual these days. While text posts and tweets have been sufficient for getting out information about school closings and simple sports scores, nothing beats a short video report on the topic or event. And no video can beat a live-from-location video report. In the past few months, I have transitioned from [...]
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State Tournament Serves as Stage for Live Sports Coverage
Posted on 17. Dec, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet Last weekend, Palo Alto High School’s volleyball team played in the state title game against Long Beach Poly. As a sports magazine, The Viking is accustomed to covering sporting events and publishing stories online (with photos and video clips) a couple of hours after the conclusion of a game. Going into the championship match, [...]
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How to create an animated favicon for your website
Posted on 14. Dec, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet We recently didn’t have a favicon for our publications’ website, FHNtoday.com, and had been looking for a way to get all three of our three major icon images into one favicon to display on the top of our website. We found that there was an article on JEADigitalMedia.org about how to make different favicons [...]
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Goodman Discusses the SPLC, FERPA and the Student Media
Posted on 08. Nov, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet In a recent email on the JEA Listserv, Mark Goodman gave a nice, succinct explanation of FERPA and how it relates to the student media, summarizing content from the SPLC. FERPA is a blockade many staffs run into as administrators use it to say everything from photos can’t run online to student names can’t [...]
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Going Online workshop in Tennessee
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet “Going Online,” a one-day workshop for high school journalism teachers who want to start a news web site or take their print publications online, will be held Monday, December 6, 2010, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The workshop will provide high school journalism teachers with the following: – Basic instruction and material [...]
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Hands-on multi-media seminars now offered at NSPA convention
Posted on 14. Oct, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet The National Scholastic Press Association and JEA have unveiled seven hands-on seminars for broadcast and digital media journalists at their national convention in Kansas City on November 11-13. The seminars will take place in a Macintosh lab provided by Apple, Inc. Seminars are taught by Apple Distinguished Educators and other working professionals who bring [...]
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Video Storytelling Pre-Convention Workshop to be Offered in Kansas City
Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet Thanks to the hard work of some of JEA’s Apple Distinguished Educators, the Kansas City convention has secured a digital video computer lab and added a new pre-convention workshop — video storytelling with Final Cut Pro. Here’s the description: Learn how to use Apple’s Final Cut Pro to create stories for your broadcast program [...]
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High School Educators Multimedia Workshop in Illinois
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet The Eastern Illinois University Journalism Department is partnering with the McCormick Foundation, the Illinois Press Foundation and the Illinois JEA to offer a free three-day Multimedia Workshop for high school journalism teachers and advisers Sept. 17-19 on the EIU campus in Charleston. Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri or Wisconsin advisers, as well as those in Illinois [...]
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