Mentoring Matters for Fall 2014
Here’s the Fall 2014 editor of Mentoring Matters that provides highlights of the JEA Mentoring Program — Mentoring_Matters_Fall_2014 Stories include: How JEA mentors help mentees navigate their first journalism convention. JEA mentees who attended the ASNE Reynolds Institutes last summer. Former JEA mentee Josh Smalley, who now teaches journalism at Almaty International School in Kazakhstan....
From the Mentor Forum at the JEA/NSPA Convention in San Diego
Aaron Manfull, chair of the JEA Digital Media Committee, shares how to use social media in student publications. Discussion revolved around how to help advisers with the new uses of technology to advance their print and online publications. Bill Flechtner from his iPhone
iMotionHD: Great iPad app for creating stop motion video
by Judy Robinson Mentoring Committee One of the several apps I shared with the mentors at the JEA/NSPA convention in San Francisco this past spring was iMotionHD. It’s a great app and worth reviewing again or sharing with those of you who weren’t able to attend in San Francisco. Creating stop-motion video or time-lapse photography...
Mentoring Monday: Magazine staff creates content and does printing
JEA mentors Georgia and Wayne Dunn visited their mentee Rebekah Yzenski and her staff on deadline night. Yzenski is a first-year adviser at Sheridan High School in Thornville, OH, and advises The General Idea. The General Idea is an 8-page full-color magazine. In addition to creating the content for the magazine and doing the page...
Back-to-school journalism workshop provide training and motivation
by Linda Barrington JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Wisconsin Mentor From the senior editor who is anxious to make the publication even better than last year to the freshman reporter who is unsure of what she’s gotten herself into, back-to-school journalism workshops provide excitement, motivation and instruction as well as support and guidance for everyone on...
Mentoring Monday: 3 challenges for new teachers
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair New teacher Julia Bethe welcomed more than her third graders to her classrom at Orange River Elementary School in Fort Myers, Fla. A reporter and photographer from The News-Press were there for Bethe’s first day with her students and will be following her through her first year. Not...
Mentoring Monday: ASPA’s Long Weekend provides opportunity for advisers to share expertise to improve student media
Connie Nolen, an adviser from Pelham High School (Pelham, Ala.), spent nearly two hours of nonstop instruction at a University of Alabama campus eatery, counseling JEA mentee Tyrone Jones on all aspects of literary magazine advising. The meeting was arranged by JEA mentor Marie Parsons, on the recommendation of another mentee, Melissa Dixon, who has...
Mentoring Monday: How writing an essay could win classroom set of The Wall Street Journal
Here’s a competition that Journalism Education Association mentees may be interested in – with the winner receiving a classroom set of The Wall Street Journal. Linda Shockley, Dow Jones News Fund deputy director, sends this information: For the fourth consecutive year, media teachers can compete to win a year’s classroom subscription to The Wall Street...
Mentoring Monday: Library of Congress selects 88 books that ‘shaped America’
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair This is the time of year for reading lists. The what-to-read-at-the-beach list. The required-readings-for-school list. Here’s another list to help inform your readings. The Library of Congress has compiled a list of Books That Shaped America. The list of 88 books are listed in order by publication date...
Mentoring Monday: What author Hilary Mantel’s one year of teaching shows about teaching as a profession
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair As food for thought for those graduating from college and entering the job market, The New York Times featured essays from five successful professionals who were asked to write about their earliest jobs. Author Hilary Mantel wrote about one of her earliest jobs – being an English teacher...
Mentoring Monday: Skills taught in high school media classes can ‘pay off’ in students’ financial independence
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair North Carolina mentor Martha Rockwell brings to our attention an article that appeared earlier this year in USA Today — Liberal arts education lends edge in down economy. The article discussed the results of a survey that compared employment figures with standardized test scores that evaluate a student’s...