Archive for 'Schools Online'
118 Amazing High School Twitter Feeds
Posted on 18. Apr, 2011 by Jonathan Rogers.
118 Amazing High School Twitter Feeds This past winter I had the pleasure of listening to Logan Aimone talk about Twitter lists at the IHSPA Winter Thaw. Aimone discussed how his Twitter lists for high school journalism, college journalism, and numerous other news feeds give him a good sense of what is going on in [...]
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CSPA Announces Online Gold and Silver Crown Winners
Posted on 18. Mar, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
In a ceremony earlier today, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced their Gold and Silver Crown winners. Nine sites earned Gold Crowns while another 11 were honored with Silver Crowns. Congratulations to all the winners.
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How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: Immediate Content
Posted on 15. Mar, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
When Niles West News debuted, I knew we had to update often; otherwise, readers wouldn’t come back to the site. But how immediate does an a student-run website need to be? Once you and your staff make the decision to “go online,” the ability (and the pressure) to be immediate is there. For most of [...]
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CSPA Announces Online Crown Award Winners
Posted on 20. Feb, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association named their list of 2011 Crown Award Winners earlier this week. Gold and Silver Crowns will be announced March 18 in New York City during CSPA’s annual convention. You can see the list of honorees here.
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Chickens, Dinosaurs and Internet Teams
Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Rogers.
For the new year I decided to try a new organizational strategy to encourage more posts on the Web site and integration with the print publication. The idea is to use Internet Teams that compete against each other. Each team will have a week to rack up as many points as possible. Points are earned [...]
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How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: Online Comments
Posted on 25. Jan, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
I’m a first-year adviser of an online-only student newspaper at a suburban Chicago school of roughly 2,500 students. I began the school year with five students in my newspaper production class; this semester, it’s up 50%. I supervise about 10 other students, who work for the paper extracurricularly, during free periods and lunch and after [...]
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Create an ISSUU Group!
Posted on 22. Nov, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
Recently, I created an ISSUU group to try and lure Iowa High School Publications to share their newspapers online. If you are an Iowa adviser click here to join. The idea is to share our publications online, save postage, and showcase great work. So far it is starting out slowly, but the advantages are immense. [...]
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NSPA Broadcast and Multimedia Stories of the Year
Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
Winners of the Broadcast and Multimedia stories of the year category were announced during the JEA/NSPA Fall National Convention in Kansas City. Check out all the stories that placed, there are some great ones. Broadcast Stories of the Year Multimedia Stories of the Year
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Broadcast and Website Best of Show: JEA/NSPA Kansas City
Posted on 15. Nov, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
The JEA/NSPA Fall National Convention was this Nov. 11-14, 2010, in Kansas City. For the first time, the Website Best of Show category was split into two categories: Publication Website Large Schools and Publication Website Small Schools. Best of Show Winners in the Broadcast and both Website categories can be found on the NSPA Website.
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