High School Journalism Institute

Attending an the High School Journalism Institute summer workshop will enable you to learn from expert media educators while earning credit toward certification. Some courses will involve readings to be completed in advance and a major project due one week following the workshop. Classes meet in full-day intensive sessions Monday morning through Friday afternoon. Class size is limited and pre-enrollment is required, so register by May 23.

This section allows you to learn and practice technology skills that can be incorporated into your publication classes. You will learn to record and edit digital audio and plan and shoot digital photos to be combined to create multimedia for the Web. You will learn the steps for creating a podcast for your student publications and how to post multimedia on the Internet through blogs or your own Web site. Requirements: 1GB flash drive and digital camera (and driver/software or card reader to move photos from camera to the computer). Instructors: Julie Dodd, professor, University of Florida; and Judy Robinson, assistant professor, University of Florida, and executive director of the Florida Scholastic Press Association.

Adviser’s role in selecting and maintaining qualified staff members, budgeting, grading in lab situations and working with administrators are some of the topics offered in this section. Course also examines the latest production tools, design applications and legal/ethical issues involving school newspapers and yearbooks. Instructor: Dan Niles, veteran secondary school journalism educator and 32-year member of the HSJI staff.

The course will give you experiences producing high school newspaper pages and yearbook spreads. It will be taught in a Macintosh environment, using Adobe InDesign as the page design software, and Photoshop and Illustrator for producing and editing visual contents. In addition to computer skills, teachers will learn about theory and practice of the fundamentals of design, including typography and color. Final projects will be submitted after the week’s classwork has been completed. Students should make arrangements to have a computer available with InDesign software in order to complete the course offsite. Instructor: Greg Mosley, publications adviser, Brown County High School, Nashville, Ind.

Methods of Teaching Journalistic Writing

June 23-27

This course has two major goals: to help you develop and practice reporting, writing and editing skills and to discuss teaching strategies and activities for use in teaching journalistic writing. Topics covered include interviewing; writing news stories, feature stories, sports stories and editorials; editing; developing teaching activities and units; applying student press law and ethics; and using computers for word processing, research and teaching. Instructor: Diana Hadley, executive director, Indiana High School Press Association.

Each of the four one-week workshops carries two graduate credits in the School of Journalism. A final project is due following the workshop’s end. An extra project can be completed for a third credit, if desired. Tuition is $265.43 per graduate credit plus approximately $115 (for those taking three hours or less). This extra expense is for technology, activity and transportation fees. (Health fees are charged only to students taking six or more hours.) In addition, a $20 non-refundable workshop fee must accompany the pre-enrollment form. After mailing in this form with check, we will send you IU registration materials to complete. After these have been completed and mailed back to HSJI, you will be officially registered with the university. The bursar’s office will generate a bill for you after the workshop has begun for tuition. Note: The bursar does not accept credit card payments. Fees are the same for both in-state and out-of-state students.

The Indiana University School of Journalism plans to award several $500 grants for high school teachers. These grants may be used for one of the HSJI courses or for regular summer school. Read this letter from the HSJI Director Jack Dvorak for information on applying.

The costs for campus room and board are in addition to the listed fees. Participants interested in staying on campus will be sent reservation materials. All on-campus accommodations are air conditioned single rooms. Residence hall fees for the five-day session are about $240, while meals during the session are about $125. Housing fees will be due upon check-in at dorm and meals are on your own.

Course content information: Jack Dvorak, High School Journalism Institute, School of Journalism, Ernie Pyle Hall, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405. Telephone: (812) 855-0865, e-mail Jack Dvorak.

Registration Materials

Request materials from HSJI at the following address or print the forms, then complete and return them to: Linda J. Johnson, School of Journalism, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, (812) 855-0895 or e-mail her.