We’ll be online-only next year, and that’s OK
The news arrived abruptly at the end of the 2020-21 school year: Starting in 2022-23, our school district was cutting
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moving online
#Press4Education matches teachers with professional journalists in the classroom. Want to help or get matched up?
Professional journalists in the classroom reek of credibility and experience. That’s why the Society of Professional Journalists and Journalism Education Association are making a
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Journalists use Google News Lab for background, visualization, trends
Sammaruddin Stewart, of the Verified Pixel Project San Francisco (an outreach effort from Google to help journalists), shared free Google
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Introducing 10 free apps to share with your staff
If you did not have a chance to attend Rachel Rauch’s 1 p.m. session at the November Indianapolis JEA conference,
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Google Docs templates help students submit staff applications
Google Forms is certainly a wise choice for staff applications, but this year I went back to some old-fashioned ways
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Think on-line first for student publications
The following was presented at the Los Angeles JEA national high school journalism conference. Think On-Line First from Michelle
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See this resource if your site is lacking featured images
In Lauren Feller’s weekly report from School Newspapers Online, “Fresh Powder,” readers can find a small story with a big
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Use Wikispaces for a staff manual
Create a staff manual using Wikispaces.com. When one of my veteran newspaper students needed to move on, I realized she
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Use more finesse with iPhone photography
If you missed the previous tips from David Molnar on how to shoot fireworks, you won’t want to miss his
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