JOURNALISM LINKS:
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A Glossary of Publishing Terms
How to teach NEWS STORIES:
Student Newspaper Unit an online
lesson plan. Students publish online.
A free course: News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
from the Poynter Institute.
Registration is FREE for you and your students.
(from the site):
“What will I learn?
News Sense explores the basic building blocks of news stories.
You’ll examine the who, what, when, where, why and how of events
and see how the answers to those questions shape news coverage.
FREE copy editing quizzes
from the American Copy Editors Society
Classes, lesson plans at J-Teacher.com
The New York Times Lesson Plan:
Other good New York Times Lesson plans
Here’s another one:
Right on Time? (Grades 6-8 , 9-12 )
Researching and Writing a Breaking News Story on Deadline
In this lesson, students share their reactions to hearing a false rumor.
They then research and write an article about a current news item
affecting their school, which they must submit on deadline the next day.
Grammar-Usage Lesson Plan
“Pick Your News” modern news stories Webquest
How to teach STORY IDEAS:
An online Journalism workshop for high school students has many good ideas:
A Free online wire service with news from a
Student Newspaper Unit an online
lesson plan. Students publish online.
How to teach FEATURE WRITING:
The Feature Story Icebreaker Interview:
Writing Features from the New York Times site
Feature Story Hallmarks lesson plan
How to teach SPORTS WRITING:
Ask a Pro about Sports Writing
from the New York Times site
The Washington Post NIE Program
10 tips for improving Scholastic sports pages
10 tips for improving Scholastic sports writing
How to teach OPINION PIECE WRITING
Writing Opinion pieces from the New York Times site
Expressing Opinion for Mass Consumption
(Lesson Plan)
Finding a Voice in Editorial and Opinion Writing
(Lesson Plan)
A Washington Post lesson plan: Inside the Editorial
The Ron Reason website:
Samples/models of good
school newspapers and sites
Award-winning paper reinstated
Award-winning School newspaper irritates administration
(Columbia Scholastic Press Association)
Online School newspapers, magazines, etc.
NSPA (National Scholastic Press Association) Winners
includes the Pacemaker winners,
both newspapers and yearbooks
The NSPA writes critiques, too
Membership with critique costs $189.00
and $99 for junior high and middle school.
(An NSPA Pacemaker winner)
(An NSPA Pacemaker finalist)
(on the web)
(An NSPA Pacemaker finalist)
The Mission Newsmagazine
Notice the great use of color for the masthead
and black and white photography that bleeds off the edges.
A Senior Class divider or “double trucks” page
from the NSPA page:
An example of great design and photography
on a yearbook
Award-winning news stories from another
High School paper:
Other ideas/websites for teaching journalism:
Students can use the Write Site:
from Ohio to help them write their story and
learn about journalism.
This is designed for Middle School students,
but could help beginning Journalism students
start out and learn abut journalism.
A great “intro” unit for your class.
How to create a good journalism story:
This teacher has ideas and two great lesson plan ideas
to help students find ideas for stories.
Teaching Journalism hints from the
American Society of Newspaper Editors
At Journalism.org, there is a list of nine core principles
to use when evaluating any story:
Journalism Training Programs for advisors:
FREE research tools for journalists
for students 8-18
Has collaborative projects
Journalism 1: at Hunterdon Central
Regional High School a blog site
The CyberNewseum
Take a class at Poynter Online for students
and advisors:
More sites for high school journalists:
More FREE training for high school journalists:
Other sites, radio/tv/web:
Start a Radio Journalism Project
in your school
with this scholarship/workshop:
or download their pdf workshop information called:
“Plugged In: Using the Internet for High School
(and professional) Journalism”
written by the Radio and Television
News Directors Foundation
for journalism students
The complete resource for
High School journalism on
the internet.
Flash Journalism free
access to online book
Artistic expression on the internet
Students can submit art here from
student publications:
There are Journalism stories
published here:
Create a classroom newspaper Lesson Plan:
Indiana University at Bloomington
Journalism resource page includes the
Student Press Law Center site link
Grammar, Spelling, editing tips
include Journalism Diversity links,
High School and College Student Resources,
Organizations and more
for students
Copywriter’s Resources
includes internships
An Advanced Journalism Grading system
The Supreme Court Center
complete text of the Hazlewood case
HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT v. KUHLMEIER,
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Kathy Schrock’s Page
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
The Educator’s Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml
Learning Style Inventories from Dr. Kacer’s Site:
Multiple Intelligences
http://www.mitest.com/o2ndary.htm
Similar to Myers-Briggs
http://www.oswego.edu/Acad_Dept/s_of_educ/curr/plsi/plsi48a.htm
Several Instruments Here
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/styles.html
Learning about Propaganda website for High School students
from Newspapers in Education:
http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/workbooks/highnewswrite.html
Free Rubrics at Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
More Rubrics from all over the US
http://eleaston.com/classroom.html
A simple concept web
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/conceptweb/
A concept-event map
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/conmap/
A K-W-L worksheet
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/kwl/
Eduhound’s Awesome Clipart
For Educators
http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/
Filling the Tool Box how to get your students to ask questions in class:
http://www.fno.org/toolbox.html#Beginning
Your Electronic Locker
(good for college, too!)
http://www.ashland.k12.ky.us/trt/HSLocker.htm
This used to be a favorite site... there is some
good information - but watch for broken links now.
WKU isn't on there - it's an ad for Florida, really,
but worth a look.
Learn to write a Journalism story
At Ohio’s web site
The Write Site
Thank you, Professor Bretz at WKU,
for helping me findi these great links.
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