Registration

$20 per student. Register online.

Contest information

Download the Contest Entry Form, attach your entry, and mail to Journalism Workshops by Sept. 21! See the entry form for categories and more information.

Course Offerings

Each student attends two of the following courses:

Yearbook Fundamentals

• Purpose of the yearbook
• Trends in yearbook
• Theme development
• Headlines and captions
• Copy writing
• Modular yearbook design
• Deadline managment
• Ladder development
• Work flow

Newspaper Fundamentals

• News values
• Headlines and captions
• Writing styles
• Lead writing
• News briefs
• Modular design
• Deadline managment
• Work flow
• Maestro

Design and Emerging Technology

• Design principles
• Colory theory/use
• Modular design
• Typography
• Story hierarchy
• Dominant/secondary elements
• Alternative story forms
• Emerging technology

Photojournalism

• Photo composition
• Cropping
• Black and white and color balance basics
• Photo IDs and caption writing

News Writing

• News values
• Journalistic writing style
• Inverted pyramid
• Story organization
• Lead writing
• Copy editing

Feature Writing

• Hard news vs. soft news
• Journalistic writing style
• Types of feature stories
• Active voice
• Descriptive writing
• Story organization
• Lead writing
• Copy editing

Lunch

Lunch will be provided this year and the cost is included in your registration fees.

Tentative Schedule

8:15 a.m. – Registration begins at Emens Auditorium

9 a.m. – Opening session at the Student Center

10-11:30 a.m. – First Session

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Lunch

12:30 – 2 p.m. – Second Session

Look for our ad below in the JEA/NSPA program and the upcoming IHSPA Magazine!

Funded by a generous grant from the McCormick Foundation, all 19 advisers attended for free, staying on campus here at Ball State for three days of intensive learning.

Domain names and hosting services were provided to all attendees – meaning they’ll be able to run their sites for a year free of charge.

Here’s what some of our participants had to say about their experience:

“This workshop has given me a knowledge base which will positively impact my journalism students learning. This is real world journalism knowledge.”

“This workshop took me from feeling like I should have a website to knowing that I need a website and that it isn’t as hard to create and maintain one as perceived.”

“This is absolutely vital so that journalism teachers can keep students on the cutting edge. Teachers are not able to get this anywhere else (that I could see).”

“It’s made getting online seem possible for my program – I feel like I have a good foundation in the basics and some ideas of where to look for more information. I’ve also made some great connections and I feel like I can contact my instructors and other workshop attendees for help.”

Get Yours

Want to make a website of your own? Students can build websites at our Five-Day workshop. Advisers, check back this spring for information about web workshops next June.

Check it Out!

See the progress some of our attendees are making on their sites!

• The Flagship, Perkins HS,
• Crusader Chronicle, Scecina HS
• OTVX Online, Oldham County HS
• Washingtonian, Washington HS
  

  Online media specialist Erin Cubert (right) works with Mary Jo Napholz and Hope Ann Wallace of Perkins (Ohio) High School.

Five-Day Workshop: July 25-29, 2010

Join us for five days of intense journalism workshops! At our Five-Day workshops, you’ll choose an area of interest and attend classes in that area all five days. Topic areas include newspaper and yearbook writing, design and editing, photography and sports writing, online journalism, infographics and alternative storytelling and broadcast journalism. During the workshop, attend mini-sessions for the chance to learn more about areas of journalism outside of your main classes. Mini-sessions will cover topics like new and social media, photography for the non-photographer, how to spice up a publication’s designs and other topics that will get you thinking about different aspects of your publication. .

You’ll be staying on campus in our Noyer Complex dormitory.

Although class instruction does take up a good portion of the day, enjoy nightly social activities like a talent show, karaoke and athletic competitions.

Tuition and housing: $350
Meal cards (optional): $35 or $60

Attend our Five-Day and On The Ball for a discounted price: $500 for both!

Get more information about available classes, scholarships, dorm life, meal cards, social activities, transportation and more!

Click here to register!

On the Ball: July 30-Aug. 1, 2010

On The Ball is a three-day weekend workshop oriented toward staffs or groups of editors. As soon as students arrive to On The Ball, each staff meets with one of our advisers to discuss their goals for the workshop and the upcoming school year. By setting their own goals, each staff ensures a workshop experience that fits their needs. Some staffs will spend their time here developing a yearbook theme and designing a cover, while others may spend their time developing a marketing strategy and media kit or online strategy and Web site. On The Ball is a great way for staffs to get a head start on the school year!

Tuition and housing: $185
Meal cards (optional): $35 or $60. Click here for more information on meal cards.

Attend our Five-Day and On The Ball for a discounted price: $500 for both!

Click here to register!

Professor Suzy Smith of BSU's Department of Telecommunications teaches workshop students how to use a green screen in a TV studio.

Daily News Experience: July 25-29, 2010

Get the scoop on working for one of the best college newspapers in the country! At our Daily News Experience Workshop, or DN|X for short, you’ll be given the role of a Ball State Daily News staff member and get to experience what it’s like to work for college media.

You won’t just be covering what what’s happening during workshops. Under the supervision of Daily News editors and advisers, you’ll go out into the community and cover real news stories. At the end of the week, your work will be published in a real edition of the Daily News, which will be distributed to the entire campus.

NOTE: You must apply for this competitive program. Click here for more information on applying, links to the issue of the DN workshops students made last year and video interviews with participants.

Tuition and housing: $375
Meal cards (optional): $35 or $60. Click here for more information on meal cards.

Click here to apply!

Classes requiring the use of technology are held in the same state-of-the-art labs as Ball State's journalism classes. Above, the online class works on 20" iMacs.

More than 1,400 students attended Ball State University’s Journalism Workshops annual High School Journalism Day on April 23, 2010.

This year’s theme, “Are we there yet?” focused on the idea that the journalism field is always changing. The technology, ideas and tools are changing and advancing so rapidly that we often wonder,”when is it going to stop? Do I know enough yet? Have we reached the final destination? How much more is the industry going to change?”

In other words,  “Are we there yet?”

Students in attendance had the opportunity to attend three sessions that focused on developing their traditional media skills and improving their multimedia skills.

Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make this year’s High School Journalism Day a success!

Click here for a list of this year’s contest winners!

John Cutsinger, Casey Nichols and Kathy Craghead were inducted into the Secondary Education Services Hall of Fame at the 2010 Journalism Day opening session!

Workshop dates: June 18 – 20 and June 25 – 27, 2010

Earn CRUs and up to three graduate credit hours per course!

The non-credit workshop fee is $325 per course. If you are interested in earning up to three graduate credits, additional associated fees are required ($266 per credit hour). Note on the online application that you are interested in receiving graduate credit and click here to begin the process of applying for credit.

June 18-20, 2010 course offerings:

• Build a Web site - Create a Web site for your student publication! In this course, you won’t just learn how to create and manage a Web site, you’ll actually make one, meaning your students will have a new journalistic tool when they return to school in the fall. Course topics also include content management, the difference between online journalism and traditional print journalism and how to create an online environment conducive to incorporating photos, podcasts, videos and more.
• Media Advising Strategies – Whether you advise newspaper, yearbook or another medium, you’ll learn strategies to help you become a better adviser. Topics include staff organization, grading, budgets, flow charts, editorial policies and deadline management.
• Journalistic Writing for English Teachers – Designed primarily for English teachers, the course covers reporting, interviewing, writing and editing techniques currently practiced in the professional media. This class will be great for any teacher interested in learning a new style of writing, and is open to teachers in any subject area.
• Journalistic Writing for Advisers – Learn the latest writing and editing techniques for both print and online publications that will help you better teach your students.

June 25-27, 2010 course offerings:

• Build a Web site - Create a Web site for your student publication! In this course, you won’t just learn how to create and manage a Web site, you’ll actually make one, meaning your students will have a new journalistic tool when they return to school in the fall. Course topics also include content management, the difference between online journalism and traditional print journalism and how to create an online environment conducive to incorporating photos, podcasts, videos and more.
• Media Advising Strategies – Whether you advise newspaper, yearbook or another medium, you’ll learn strategies to help you become a better adviser. Topics include staff organization, grading, budgets, flow charts, editorial policies and deadline management.
• Publication Design Using InDesign and Photoshop – Learn the principles of design and how to apply them to high school newspapers, yearbooks and magazines.
• Media Law – Stay up-to-date on media laws affecting high school publications. With an emphasis on new and emerging media law and ethics, this course covers the intricacies of media law, ethics and copyright law.

Register

Click here to register!

Can’t make it to campus?

If you’re unable to make it here this summer, you can earn up to three hours of graduate credit by completing a special independent study project. Past projects have included the creation of new high school journalism classes, realignment of curriculum to standards and creation of staff policy/design manuals, to name a few.

Call us at 765-285-8900 if you are interested, to find out more about this option!

Want to move your students’ publication online?

As media audiences consume less traditional media and more online and social media, today’s high school students are tomorrow’s digital journalists. Give your students the tools they need to excel in today’s media landscape.

Using content management system training at our Build a Web site adviser workshop, we can help you get your school’s publication online. Just check out these Web sites, created at our 2009 adviser workshops:

Jason Block, Prospect High School, Mount Prospect, Ill.

Josh Davis, Beachwood (Ohio) High School

Melissa Deavers, Portage (Ind.) High School

Wendy Eberhardt-Gilliam, Eastern Hancock High School, Chalottesville, Ind.

Christie Gold, Freedom High School, Tampa, Fla.

Mark Haab, Warren Central High School, Indianapolis

Michelle Harmon, Borah (Idaho) High School

Sara Hennes, Kettering High School, Detroit, Mich.

Cindy Horchem, Piper High School, Kansas City, Kan.

Kathy Jesse, Broad Ripple High School, Indianapolis

Bob Kay, Grayslake (Ill.) Central High School

Shea Kerkhoff, Knightdale (N.C.) High School

Lisa Koch, Little Miami High School, Morrow, Ohio

Liz Marcello, Colonial Christian School, Indianapolis

Rachel McCarver, Columbus (Ind.) North High School

Julieanne McClain, Rutherford B. Hayes High School, Delaware, Ohio

April Moss, Pike High School, Indianapolis

Karen Sipes, South Side Middle School, Anderson, Ind.

Sue Skalicky, Century High School, Bismarck, N.D.

Carolyn Wagner, Lake Zurich (Ill.) High School

Tracey Ward, Olentangy Liberty High School, Powell, Ohio

Get a head start on the upcoming school year at our On The Ball Workshop!

On The Ball is oriented toward entire staffs or groups of editors. As soon as students arrive to On The Ball, each staff meets with one of our advisers to discuss their goals for the workshop and the upcoming school year. So some staffs will spend their time here developing a yearbook theme and designing a cover, while others may spend their time developing a marketing strategy and media kit or online strategy and Web site. On The Ball is a great way for staffs to get a head start on your school year!

Tuition and housing: $185
Meal cards (optional): $35 or $60. Click here for more information on meal cards.

Attend our Five-Day and On The Ball for a discounted price: $500 for both!

Click here to register!