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[Handout] How to upload a file into Google Docs and Share it

[Handout] How to upload a file into Google Docs and Share it

Posted on 28. Nov, 2011 by .

Tweet Earlier this year I created this PDF, which answered the most common questions that students had when I showed the Google Docs setup process on the projector. It walks students, (who already have a Google-compatible email,) through the process of creating a Google account, then uploading or creating a new Google Doc. It also [...]

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[Handout] Sports Editor John Bohnenkamp Offers Tips for Writing Sports Recaps on Deadline

[Handout] Sports Editor John Bohnenkamp Offers Tips for Writing Sports Recaps on Deadline

Posted on 10. Nov, 2011 by .

Tweet The web allows scholastic media staffs to cover game previews and recaps in a much more timely fashion than its print counterpart. Quickly turning stories is a tough chore to many high school sports reporters. Sports Editor John Bohnenkamp of the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye offers some tips to high school sports reporters and [...]

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[Handout] Online Ethical Guidelines for Student Media

[Handout] Online Ethical Guidelines for Student Media

Posted on 06. Nov, 2011 by .

Tweet   As student media staffs explore digital media to gather information, tell stories, promote their work and handle comments, they will encounter ethical questions both familiar and unique. For that reason, members of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission and Digital Media Committee developed guidelines to provide insight to ethical questions students might use as [...]

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Assessing a crazy converged newsroom

Assessing a crazy converged newsroom

Posted on 14. Oct, 2011 by .

Tweet This year we took two separate publications, a print newspaper staff and an online staff, and merged them into one staff that produces a monthly newsmagazine and a daily website. It’s become one big, crazy newsroom with lots of bodies moving in different directions working on wildly different assignments all at the same time. [...]

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[Handout] Work to critique social media postings by staffers

[Handout] Work to critique social media postings by staffers

Posted on 10. Oct, 2011 by .

Tweet More and more student publications are trying out Twitter and other social media venues to publicize their work and engage with their audience. It takes time to develop this online presence. As students develop social media skills, it is important to critique the posts just as the newspaper and yearbook productions would. Here is [...]

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[Handout] Teaching in the Quickly Changing Digital Age: An SND Takeaway

[Handout] Teaching in the Quickly Changing Digital Age: An SND Takeaway

Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by .

Tweet I had the pleasure of speaking today with Steven King of UNC Chapel Hill and Bryan Murley of Eastern Illinois University at the Society for News Design Conference in St. Louis. Our panel discussion was on entitled “Teaching in the Quickly Changing Digital Age.” We gave some tips and advice on how we worked [...]

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[Handout] Soundslides Rubric for Multimedia Slideshows

Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by .

Tweet Alan Weintraut has shared a Soundslides rubric he created for his students at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia.The rubric covers photography, audio, deadlines and editing. Download the Soundslides Rubric Here

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Radio Lessons from HSBJ

Posted on 21. Feb, 2009 by .

Tweet RTNDF’s High School Journalism Broadcast Web site, HSBJ.org has some great lessons for radio educators ready to use. There are more than 75 ready-to-use PDF lessons for you to peruse with topics ranging from the Announcing Sports and the Business Side of Things to Plagarism and Radio History. If you’re working with radio or [...]

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The three ‘P’s of online legal issues

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by .

Tweet Those thinking about expanding their student media outreach need to keep three concepts in mind:  three Ps of online legal issues. Policy When you design editorial guidelines for your digital media, create them as equivalents with your print or broadcast media. You do not want separate and unequal designations of rights and responsibilities, especially [...]

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