AutoStitch: Increase your horizon
by Digital Judy One of the apps I shared for the iPad/iPhone as part of the technology session at the 2012 Seattle Forum was Autostitch Panorama ($1.99). Julie Dodd introduced me to the application and she may have more photos to add to this Seattle selection. You take a series of photos horizontally and...
Mentoring Monday: Recipes for successful mentoring cooked up at JEA Mentor Forum in Minneapolis
by Judy Robinson JEA Mentor Committee member At the Mentor Forum in Minneapolis at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention last week, Peggy Gregory started things cooking with a warm-up activity challenging mentors to create recipes with ingredients for success for the futures of mentors and mentees in the program. Be assured there...
Skits and Comics at Forum
With fifteen participants in the Mentor Forum, we have had several interactive, brainstorming opportunities. If you are a mentor, you will know how creative your colleagues can be. Bill Fletchner was creative and asked the mentors to sing, dance or act what they believed mentoring to be like: an animal, a force of nature or...
On Being Mentored: A Panel Discussion
“On Being Mentored” was a panel discussion with mentees at the JEA Kansas City Convention in the Fall of 2010. by Peggy Gregory The panel included Diane Hicks, mentor Gary Lindsey; Jessica Young, mentor Konnie Krislock; and Erica Rickard, former mentor Mary Anne McCloud who was also her high school journalism teacher What is one...
Thinking Ahead: Planning to attend JEA Convention?
by Judy Robinson JEA Mentoring Committee A brief interview with Mary Anne McCloud at the Fall 2009 JEA Convention in Washington gives you yet another reason to put the convention date on your calendar. Nov. 11-14, 2010 – Kansas City April 14-17, 2011 – Anaheim Click to play and listen to Mary Anne’s experience. (Time:...
Mentor Forum provides new ideas and problem-solving strategies
by Julie Dodd Peggy Gregory, Bill Fletchner and Nick Ferentinos are the leaders for the Mentor Forums that have been held at three JEA/NSPA conventions — St. Louis, Phoenix, and last week in Washington, D.C. The funding to bring the mentors to the conventions for the forums has been provided by Yellow Chair Foundation. Starting...