Tag Archives: Google Docs

Google Docs streamlines brainstorming session, inspires more use of Google Docs for editing, record keeping

Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by .

The week before Spring Break isn’t usually the most energetic moment of a staff’s school year, but ours was bursting with enthusiasm about a new method we adopted for brainstorming story ideas using Google Docs. For beat reporting, we previously used both a chart in which we all wrote copious notes while students reported information [...]

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Happy Birthday To Us! Our Top 10 Most Read Digital Media Posts From the Past Year

Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by .

Happy Birthday to us! Happy Birthday to us! Happy Birthday JEADigitalMedia.org! Happy Birthday to us! It’s been exactly one today since we officially launched ourselves to the JEA Listserv. During that time we’ve worked to help expand digital media offerings at the JEA/NSPA spring and fall conventions and we have worked to provide weekly content [...]

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Google Apps for the Staff: A Student Perspective

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by .

While working on a newspaper staff, collaborating and writing stories becomes a difficult task that could result in missed deadlines or worse, an out-of-sync staff. There is an easy fix to this issue: Google Apps. Google has a suite of online applications that can solve almost every issue that could arise, like communicating with the [...]

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5 Things I Learned Using Google Docs for Staff Applications This Year

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by .

For the first time, I had students apply for staff with an online application. I actually wrote about it a couple week ago, showing everyone what I was doing. Well, not that the application and selection process for next year is over, I decided to take a look at what I learned by doing this [...]

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Create a staff application online for free using Google Docs

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by .

Staff applications for 2010-2011 are approaching for many. Something you might want to consider this year is creating a form online for your staff application. Using Google Documents you can create one for free – and it’s relatively simple. I’m trying something new this year, basically on what I considered a challenge from Jill Chittum. [...]

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SPJ Blog’s Step By Step Instructions on Creating a Google Map for your Site

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by .

Hilary Fosdal, Interactive Content Manager for Barrington Broadcasting, has created a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to create and embed a Google Map for your Web site. Google maps can be used in a variety of ways to enhance your site. The 2009 NSPA Multimedia Story of the Year included a google map as part [...]

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High School Media on Facebook

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by .

Linked here is Google spreadsheet of High School Media on Facebook. If you’re not on the list, we’d love to add you. Fill out the form to add yourself to the list.

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Don’t be Confused: How Your Staff Can Organize Their Google Docs

Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by .

Open publication – Free publishing – More organization Google Docs is quickly becoming a crucial component of may scholastic journalism newsrooms around the country. It allows an organized copy system and staffs are not tied to school computers for editing. They can edit anytime, anywhere, as long as they have the internet. Check out how [...]

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Using Google Docs with High School Journalism Publications

Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by .

Google Docs is a great online program to help organize stories, deadlines and more for your staffs. It’s also a great tool that is a must have for online newsrooms. This video helps explain what Google Docs is. In essence, it’s an online version of Microsoft Word. It’s applicable for scholastic journalism because students can [...]

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