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JEA mentor is Yearbook Adviser of the Year
Linda Drake received the award @ the awards luncheon. With insights, humor and a few tears, Linda told of the rewards and challenges of teaching in her rural Kansas high school where the 140 students are really outnumbered by the cows in the county.
Judging Write-offs at the JEA convention
Judging advertising – Mentors Wayne & Georgia Dunn (on right) judge with Susan Tantillo and Candace and John Bowen. Judges reviewed more than 1,000 entries in more than 40 categories.
Counting on leadership for problem solving
As individuals and as a country, we are counting on those in national/state/local government positions to be making informed and proactive decisions to address the financial crisis. But we need to remind ourselves that often these same people were part of what got us into trouble in the first place. Yes, we have newly elected […]
Blogging insights as an editor
Rebecca Lieb is the editor-in-chief of the ClickZ Network provides an interesting perspective as being both an editor and a blogger. As an editor, she encourages the site’s bloggers to have something to say. That would seem obvious, but she notes that sometimes you as a writer can get caught in the trap of thinking […]
Florida’s FCAT testing creates anxiety
Of course, the public schools have more than their share of challenges. This week starts the FCAT testing, which determines promotion for some grade levels and school rankings. No wonder many schools have FCAT pep rallies.
Advice from a former MMC 2100 student
Daron Dean, photographer at the St. Augustine Record, shared his photos and offered advice on taking photos for the students in MMC 2100. Although almost all of the students have cameras, most of them take snapshots — those smile-at-the-camera pictures that can be e-mailed to friends or perhaps posted and tagged on Facebook. As part […]
Incorporating new media into journalism classes
The Journalism Department is in the midst of a curriculum review. We’re trying to decide how/if to make changes in our curriculum to help make our students even better prepared for the job market. As part of that process, tomorrow is “Show and Tell.” We’ve been encouraged to make a 3-minute presentation of how we’re […]
How should a major news event affect your class?
Today is the Presidential inauguration. You have a class today. Should you: (A) Cancel class. (B) Hold class but use most of the class time for the class to watch the inauguration. (C) Teach class as you had planned but include the Obama Inauguration as part of your lesson. (D) Go on with class as […]
How technology is changing media delivery, teaching and my conference activities (blogging while on the panel)
During our meeting at Poynter we discussed how the media is changing, how media consumers are changing, how our students are changing, and how our teaching is changing. Traditional newspaper reading is declining and newspapers themselves are decreasing in size or circulation or scope. We’re all reading online — on computers and mobile devices. Newspaper […]
Exciting convention for the Mentoring Program
The board voted to extend the program through the 2012-2013 school year. The board voted to increase the funding for the program that will allow for training more mentors each year. The first Mentor Forum went well with 11 attending the 1st Mentor Forum. Lots of idea swapping and team building. The convention program included […]
Julie Dodd 