The members of the “Newspaper Advising” Adviser Workshop were asked to create an original page design using Adobe InDesign. Some of the class had never used InDesign before, but as you’ll see below, they all did some great designs!
Melissa Winchell’s Design
Emily Mullins’ Design
Jodi Darland’s Design
Jesse McLean’s Design
Alexis Bunka’s Design
Bethany Allen’s [...]
Each of us did a 300-word story modeled after Brady Dennis of the St. Petersburg Times. We wrote about one of our classmates we’d never met. Then, we used the Lori Oglesbee’s revision process to improve our writing!
Melissa Winchell’s story about Alexis Bunka
Lisa Hansen’s story about Emily Mullins
Jodi Darland’s story about Jesse McLean
Alexis Bunka’s story about [...]
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The third week of Advisers Workshops kicked off with Photojournalism for Advisers, Yearbook Advising, Newspaper Advising and Creating Information Graphics. Check back soon for updates as we prepare for the Student Workshops which start on Sunday.
If your school is thinking updating its policies (whether you have a NEOLA policy or not), you might find this NEOLA link interesting. NEOLA has released a ton of policies over the last decade, and most having anything to do with student publications have been very restrictive. Now, finally, they offer some alternatives, including a [...]
For my 300-word feature story assignment last night, I interviewed my daughter–a tech-savvy kid who wants to go into journalism. I told her as part of the assignment I had to make two sidebars, and I was just going to do it on InDesign because it would be easier. She got excited (she says [...]
Not the best video skills, I’ll admit. But I was impressed by how easy it was to learn to edit video and create something I can use to show my students how to begin to create video stories.
I remember the stress of looking for my colleague Scot the evening he disappeared for a while. He left the school. Quite a while later his wife began calling others in the school who would likely have worked as late as Scot. The Middle School Music teacher and her husband began a search along his [...]
This was very difficult for me to edit to 300 words. I originally had it at 750 and to me it holds more weight at that length. This was originally a project for a writing course I took with Bobby Hawthorne. I have struggled with this for some time and it was time to be [...]
300 word story- alligator sanctuary
Judi Henckel’s 300 word story
I’ve driven past it a million times since it’s only a mile from my home. My journalism students have written stories about it at least three times in the past two years. I have seen pictures of the inside, the outside, and the occupants- both human and [...]
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