Archive | Adviser Workshops

08 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Newspaper Advisings’ Page Designs

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 [...]

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31 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Newspaper Advising's 300-Word Stories

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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30 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

You have multimedia and we want it!

Taking photos, videos or audio while at the workshops? We would love to see it. Talk to your instructor, someone in the MIPA office or email us at mipa@msu.edu and we can post it to the blog.

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30 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Advisers Week Three is well underway

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.

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25 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Looking at editorial policies

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 [...]

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23 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Design Challenge: Daughter v. Mother

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 [...]

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23 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Alligator Sanctuary video

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.

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23 July 2009 ~ 1 Comment

300-Word Story process

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 [...]

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23 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

300 Word Post Vondrasek

   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 [...]

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23 July 2009 ~ 1 Comment

300 word story- Alligator Sanctuary

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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