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Vampire Crazed

By Avery Walts (Floyd Central HS), Amanda Millea (Floyd Central HS), Anna Dreyfuss (West Potomac HS) and Ian Schaak (Cathedral HS)   Dracula, Buffy, and now Edward are all symbols of the bloodsucking creatures, called vampires. However, when Stephanie Meyer published the book Twilight, she changed the image of vampires for the technological age.  When [...]

IU Art Museum

History is an intriguing part of everyone. The IU Art Museum on 7th Street in Bloomington is a great place to learn about various cultures and religions. Download Quicktime

Did You Know 4.0

This is the video I showed in the Tuesday session on developing multimedia packages. The subtitle is: "Shift Happens."  

Session 2 Photo Gallery

The photo gallery for the second session is up and running! Keep checking back for more photos throughout the rest of this week. You can get to the gallery via the link below or by going to 2010 HSJI > Photo Gallery > Session 2 at the top of the page. Photos by: Jay Seawell Session 2: July [...]

My HSJI Experience: Bobby Gibler

After a week at the High School Journalism Institute, students get ready to pack up their bags and head home. For beginning journalists this week has been a learning experience but for more advanced writers this week was a great way to bring ideas back to their newspaper. Bobby Gibler, a senior at Mason High [...]

Blog: Disco

Doubt, fear, and insecurity all inhabited my mind as I walked into the musty dorm rooms on the Indiana University campus. The florescent lights buzzed overhead and the air conditioner groaned from its exhausting work. It hit me, I was Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Floyd Central Bagpiper; in less than a month the two of us [...]

Session 1 Photo Gallery

The photo gallery for the first session is up. Keep checking back for more photos throughout the rest of this week. Session 1: July 5-9 Photos

Welcome Online Journalism Students

By the end of the week at HSJI, you should be ready to post your school website online! From text to photos to video to graphics, you’ll be limited only by your own creativity (and the resources provided by your school). We’ll focus on the basics, but you’ll be ready to expand your site as [...]

Hello, don’t be lost

Section Eds: Hey, you may have heard I’m always lost, but don’t worry you can trust me to lead you the right way in newspaper publications. It’ll be an adventure – just hang with me. We’ll work together to create the very best newspaper sections ever. And if we don’t know the directions – we’ll [...]

Workshop weather

As I begin my 27th summer at the High School Journalism Institute (not counting the year I attended as a high school student), I note that we are experiencing traditional workshop weather. Highs this week on the Indiana University campus are predicted to be in the 90s throughout the first session. At least now, though, [...]