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When it comes to journalism, high school sets the stage, the standards and the opportunities for young reporters and editors. And when newsrooms look to diversity, that’s where they will find the voices of color and varied perspectives. If they are there. By Donna Griffin, Student Publications Adviser, Arsenal Technical High School, Indianapolis Yesterday [...]
Photo by Luke Wiseman A view from my dorm window on a Thursday morning using my loaned Nikon D50. For five years I have encouraged my journalism students to attend IU’s High School Journalism Institute. Several have attended. And they come back to our school with a binder-full of useful material. A few have enjoyed [...]
HSJI instructor Judy Robinson watches Janet Levin try one of the games on Robinson’s iPad, which she purchased this week in the IU Union. Levin bought an iPad shortly after this brief test drive. Photo by Scott DeRosa On the first day of the Multimedia for Journalism Educators workshop at HSJI, I led a group [...]
Janet Levin of John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Ill., practices photography during a Multimedia for High School Journalism Educators class on Monday, June 21, on the IU Bloomington campus. Photo by Jay Seawell Monday, June 21, saw the arrival of a new group of high school instructors to the IU campus for Teacher [...]
Indiana High School Press Association Executive Director Diane Hadley gives a guest lecture at the High School Journalism Institute teacher workshops on Friday, June 18, at Ernie Pyle Hall. Photo by Jay Seawell Wow, a lot has gone through my mind over the last two days, that is, until my brain started to shut down [...]
Though overwhelmed by the rush to tie everything together, I learned a great deal from my week here. Class discussions helped me achieve some valuable perspective on the way other advisers run their publications. I received some valuable advice from multiple sources on ways to approach my school’s prior review situation. I was happy to [...]
I almost didn’t come to Bloomington this week. It was Monday, I was already a day late for the Institute I signed up for in March, and I was facing a 4 hour drive "down the road" in the rain. I was also facing the fact that I was no longer the new journalism/English teacher [...]
In December, I was approached about becoming the adviser of our high school’s newspaper and yearbook, as the position would soon be opening up. "Like riding a bike," I thought. Having spent several years as a newspaper reporter and sports editor and an overall journalism junkie, I knew I was taking over a big job. Being essentially the [...]
For the last four days I’ve learned quite a bit from my peers and am grateful to have the opportunity for this time to discuss and reflect. As we all know, teachers rarely have the time to talk to each other about what we actually do with our students. This has always seemed backwards to [...]
Having just completed the first day of journalism adviser training at IU, I am simultaneously excited and overwhelmed at the breadth of information we are about to cover. The program seems appropriately tailored to fit the individual needs of each adviser attending – that is encouraging, because we all have such unique needs. At the [...]
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