Archive | Newspaper Advising

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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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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