GOING ONLINE

Digital Journalism for Today's High Schools

A workshop for high school teachers
Monday, June 14, 2010
School of Journalism and Electronic Media
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Workshop website: http://jprof.com/iconn/events/goingonline10.html


WHAT

This one-day workshop will give high school teachers and newspaper advisers the information and tools they need to establish online news web sites. It will also introduce a newly evolving online journalism curriculum for high schools and the concept of the Interscholastic Online News Network (ISONN).

Tentative lineup of topics:

Doing web journalism

Basics. The basics of journalism - reporting, writing, editing - don't change for any medium but the forms are different. Learn those differences and what you should be teaching your students.

Writing. A new form of writing is emerging for the web. More than ever, journalists must learn to "say it and get out." We'll show you the basics of the Nutshell structure that takes you beyond the Inverted Pyramid.

Multimedia. On the web, journalists can use text, pictures, audio and video. We'll give you a rundown of the skills that you should be teaching your students and the resources to do it.

To take your website online, you need hree things: a content management system, server space, and maintenance. This workshop will show you how it's done - and we'll make sure it's done before you leave the building.

One of the things we will be offering to workshop participants is the Ochs content management system. (And it's free.)
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The network is a new and exciting concept for high school journalism - the beginnings of a nationwide coalition of scholastic journalists that presents exciting possibilities for journalism education. And you can be part of it.
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We're putting together a new curriculum for high school journalism courses, one that looks to the future of journalism with many possibilities for student and teacher participation.
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• 1) Fill out the registration form on this site or also at this page:. http://bit.ly/GoingOnlineregistration
  
  
• 2) Mail a check ($15) for the registration fee to Dr. Jim Stovall, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, 333 Communications Bldg., Knoxville, TN 37996. The check should be made payable to "The University of Tennessee."
  

Once we receive your registration fee, your place in the workshop will be confirmed. If you need information on nearby hotels for overnight stays, we will send that in follow-up correspondence.

WHO

Workshop directors:

• Jim Stovall is Edward J. Meeman Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the University of Tennessee. He was a professor of journalism for 25 years at the University of Alabama and for three years at Emory & Henry College before coming to UT in 2006. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Writing for the Mass Media; Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How; and Web Journalism: Practice and Promise of a New Medium. He is the creator of the web site JPROF.com.
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• Lisa Gary is a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee. She has worked as a newspaper writer, editor and publisher and has managed print and online magazine projects.
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• Allyson DeVito is a doctoral student in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee.
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• Darrell Blair is a doctoral student in the College of Coimmunication and Information at the University of Tennessee.
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This workshop is supported by the Intercollegiate Online News Network, the Tennessee Journalist, the School of Journalism and Electronic Media, and Edgenics.com.


WHY

Your students.

Intercollegiate Online News Network
c/o Jim Stovall | School of Journalism and Electronic Media | University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN 37996 | 865.974.5109 | Email: jgstovall at gmail.com