Mentoring Matters provides insights into Mentoring Program and financial challenges for program
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentor Committee co-chair The latest issue of JEA Mentoring Matters is available — Mentoring_Matters_Spring 2013 JEA Mentoring Matters is published twice a year to coincide with the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association conventions. The spring JEA/NSPA convention is in San Francisco, April 25-28. Thanks to Linda Barrington for another informative...
7 strategies to recruit students to join your student media program
The success of next year’s media program is based in large part on what you’re doing now to recruit the staff for next year. Here is advice from long-term adviser and JEA mentor Randy Swikle. by Randy Swikle JEA Mentor, Illinois Mentoring Monday A successful media program is based on a multidimensional, ongoing recruiting process...
SmugMug’s free account for non-profits can mean fundraising opportunities for high school media staffs
by Julie E. Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Good news from our JEA colleague Aaron Manfull, who is chair of the JEA Digital Media Committee. Aaron announced in a JEA Digital Media blog post (and also on the JEA listserv) that SmugMug is offering a free account for non-profit organizations. That’s good news because that...
KEMPA helps support JEA Mentor Program
by Linda Barrington JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Mentoring Monday The Kettle Moraine Press Association hosts its annual Winter Advisers Seminar at a resort in scenic Lake Geneva, Wis. We offer registration waivers for JEA mentees to encourage their attendance and welcome them into our KEMPA community. Six mentees from Wisconsin and Illinois, along with three...
SIPA Convention energizes student journalists and advisers and demonstrates benefits of JEA Mentoring Program
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Mentoring Monday JEA Mentoring Committee member Judy Robinson and I were part of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association Convention last weekend in Columbia, S.C. More than 400 students and teachers attended the three-day convention that included workshop sessions, contests, the SIPA Quiz Bowl, and awards banquet. In addition...
Apps for mobile devices help create multimedia stories
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair What apps are the best for enabling students to tell multimedia stories? Allissa Richardson, a faculty member at Bowie State University, provided some answers in her session “Top Apps for iPod Storytelling” at the Journalism Interactive conference in Gainesville, Fla., this weekend. Richardson, the Director for Mobile Learning...
High school newspaper staff covers shooting of former student
Editor’s note: Steve Hanf teachers Intro to Journalism and is the newspaper adviser at R.J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem, N.C. His JEA mentor is Martha Rothwell. by Steve Hanf News reports from the neighboring city that Monday morning were tragic, yet not terribly noteworthy from 25 miles away: two dead, two wounded in a domestic...
Al Neuharth Free Spirit Award application deadline Feb. 15
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair The Al Neuharth Free Spirit Award is a great opportunity for high school media students to have a week-long, all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in a journalism conference at the Newseum. The deadline for applying is Feb. 15. To be eligible, the student must: Be a...
JEA mentor serves as moderator for JEA’s new National Journalism Quiz Bowl
The National Journalism Quiz Bowl was a new event at the JEA/NSPA convention in San Antonio, and JEA mentor Marilyn Chapman (South Carolina) played a key role as the quiz bowl moderator. The National Journalism Quiz Bowl was adapted from the SIPA Quiz Bowl, a popular event at the Southern Interscholastic Press Association convention. Chapman,...
JEA Mentor Forum underway at JEA/NSPA convention in San Antonio
Ohio mentors Wayne and Georgia Dunn demonstrated using Google Hangout with their mentee Josh Davis. They use Google Hangouts in mentoring at a distance. (Photo by Peggy Gregory)
Mentoring Monday: Poor minority schools found to lack student media
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair I was interested in this blog post about high school media by Richard Prince on The Root. Prince comments on the study done by Peter Bobkowski, Mark Goodman and Candace Perkins Bowen that found poor minority schools lack student media. “Schools that reported having no student media had...