In an attempt to suport new journalism teachers across the nation, the JEA Board established a mentoring program, creating a Mentoring Committee and committing $90,000 over three years to train mentors. CLICK HERE for a series of full-length stories about the Mentor Program and its first training class.
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Writing process nurtures teamwork
Summer 2008, Vol. 41, #4
Cover photo by Laura Carroll, Marcus High School (Flower Mound, Texas; Lori Herbst, adviser).
Writing process by Janet Ewell with artwork by Mark McLawhorn. A structured plan nurtures teamwork to turn story ideas into fluent text. Thoughtful suggestions help staffs and advisers develop ways to upgrade stories, whether when brainstorming, rewriting or evaluating.
Science reporting by Tyler Dukes and Kathleen Neumeyer. Health and science reporting provides timely opportunities to research critical subjects. Insights from a medical specialist broaden the perspective.
Stylebook updates. The Associated Press Stylebook, like the dictionary, is constantly evolving. The source is a necessity in an up-to-date journalism lab.
Verb voice. In the last of a four-part series, teachers review the voice of a verb with an emphasis on avoiding passive voice. The essential skill guarantees more forceful writing by journalists.
Web finds by Lori Oglesbee, Chad Rummel and Mark Murray. From the ridiculous to the informative, the Web is a boundless source of information. The Web continues to build on a short but productive history.
From the editor by Bradley Wilson. The editor recognizes that 10 years of deadlines have led to a resourceful magazine that enlightens JEA members.
Advertisers in this edition include the Alabama Scholastic Press Association, Association of Texas Photography Instructors, Ball State University JIdeas, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, Fresh Ink Yearbooks, Friesens, Goodheart-Wilcox, Jostens Adviser University, JS Printing, Kansas Journalism Institute, Kent State University, Missouri Interscholastic Press Association, Multi-Media Technology Group, New York Film Academy, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, South-Western/Cengage Learning, Taylor Publishing, and the University of Iowa.
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First Amendment Education Increases Nationwide; Major Gains Made, But More Work Is Needed New Knight Foundation survey shows more students believe
First Amendment goes too far in rights it guarantees. Update released Sept. 18, 2006. CLICK HERE
Grading
The winter 2004 edition of Communication: Journalism Education Today featured a plethora of material on grading the publications production class. There were stories on self-assessment, creating rubrics and general tips on grading contributed by Candace Perkins Bowen, Mary Lou Nagy, Janis Hatfield and Nancy Freeman.
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Educators
who teach secondary school journalism must have a broad range
of knowledge and performance abilities. Although their courses
are frequently placed in a school’s English Department,
their teaching responsibilities go beyond what most English
or language arts curriculum requires.CLICK
HERE for more information
The
Student Press Law Center is an advocate for student free-press
rights and provides information, advice and legal assistance
at no charge to students and the educators who work with them.
The SPLC Web page contains resources on everything from censorship
to copyright law. it also contains a Virtual Lawyer that is
ready to conduct a short, online interview with you that will
assist it in finding basic answers to your questions and/or
direct you to the best resources for additional information.
CLICK HERE
The
Multicultural Commission encourages minority advisers who
have not been exposed to the Journalism Education Association
to apply for the Outreach Program. Participants will attend
the fall or spring JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism
Convention and the summer Advisers Institute in Manhattan,
Kan. They will attend activities and sessions that discuss
the role of minority advisers and involvement of minority
students in journalism. CLICK
HERE
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