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

Sunday

• 10 a.m. to noon – Check-in to Woodworth Residence Hall
• Noon - Lunch
• 1 p.m. - Opening in Pruis Hall
• 2 p.m. - Class
• 3:50 p.m. - Break
• 4:10 p.m. - Class
• 6 p.m. – Dinner/recreation
• 7:30 p.m. – Staff meetings
• 9 p.m. – Dorm Floor meeting
• 10 p.m. – Social Activity
• 11 p.m. – Floor curfew
• 12 a.m. – Room curfew

Monday and Tuesday

• 8:30 a.m. - Opening in Pruis
• 9:15 a.m. – Class
• 11:30 a.m. – Lunch/recreation
• 1 p.m. – Class
• 3 p.m. – Recreation
• 4 p.m. – Class
• 6 p.m. – Dinner/recreation
• 7:30 p.m. – Mini-Session
• 9 p.m. – Social activity
• 11 p.m. – Floor curfew
• 12 a.m. - Room curfew

Wednesday

• 8:30 a.m. - Opening in Pruis
• 9:15 a.m. – Class
• 11:30 a.m. – Lunch/recreation
• 1 p.m. – Class
• 3 p.m. – Recreation
• 4 p.m. – Class
• 6 p.m. – Dinner/recreation
• 7 p.m. – Staff meeting
• 8:30 p.m. – Night of Champions Volleyball Tournament, Raffle and Dance
• 11:30 p.m. – Floor curfew
• 12 a.m. - Room curfew

Thursday

• 8 a.m. - Room checks
• 9 a.m. – Class
• 11 a.m. – Closing in Pruis
• Noon - Goodbye!

Kathy Craghead
Newspaper Editors
Kathy taught at Mexico (Mo.) High School for more than 30 years before retiring. She was the 2003 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Since 1974, she has taught workshops in 16 states.

Tom Gayda
Newspaper Redesign/Newspaper Coordinator
Tom Gayda is director of the Journalism Education Association Region 6 and has served as director of publications at North Central High School in Indianapolis for 10 years. In 2007 he was named Adviser of the Year by the Indiana High School Press Association. Read about Tom’s redesign philosophy on his website.

Kim Green
Yearbook/Yearbook Coordinator
Bio coming soon!

Ryan Gunterman
Basic Newspaper Design
Ryan Gunterman teaches journalism, TV Production, and English Composition while also advising student media at Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Ind. He is a native of New Albany, Ind. and a 2002 graduate of Indiana University where he served as beat writer, desk editor, editorial board member, and editor in chief at the student newspaper. His journalistic works have been published by Yahoo! Sports, NYTimes.com, and the Bloomington Herald-Times, and he maintained a sports blog for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Gunterman is the 2009 Indiana Adviser of the Year as well as a past president of the Indiana High School Press Association and Ball State University Journalism Workshops Hall of Fame inductee. He was also named a Rising Star and Master Journalism Educator by the Journalism Education Association and a Distinguished Adviser by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund.

Nancy Hastings
Yearbook
Nancy has taught in Munster, Ind., for 36 years – since graduating from Ball State in 1972. She has advised the Crier newspaper and Paragon yearbook for all 36 years. Both are consistent award winners. She was inducted in the Ball State University Journalism Alumni Hall of Fame in 2004.

Joe Humphrey
Adobe InDesign
Joe Humphrey, MJE, teaches journalism at Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Fla., where he advises newspaper, yearbook and broadcast journalism. Humphrey is president of the Florida Scholastic Press Association and a member of the JEA Certification Commission. He is also a former journalist, with pre-teaching experience in the newsrooms of The Tampa Tribune, The Florida Times-Union and St. Petersburg Times and The Virginian-Pilot. This summer will mark Humphrey’s first visit to Ball State and to the state of Indiana. He is excited about an inTENse week of working with students and colleagues!

Rachel McCarver
Residence Life Coordinator
Rachel McCarver is vice-president of the Indiana High School Press Association. She teaches beginning publications, photojournalism, public relations and Web journalism at Columbus (Ind.) North High School.

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Jim McCrossen
Digital Photojournalism
Jim  McCrossen has been teaching newspaper, yearbook, journalism and English at Blue Valley Northwest in Overland Park, Kan., since the school opened in 1993, and he is president-elect of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association. His students have captured some of the top prizes in scholastic journalism. McCrossen majored in photojournalism and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas. He worked for a daily newspaper in Southern California for five years before returning to Kansas to teach. He is married and has two children.

Mark Newton
Newspaper Editors
Mark Newton, MJE, the new journalism teacher at Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, Colo., is the adviser of the Eagle Eye newspaper and Aerie yearbook. He has been a teacher for 24 years and an adviser for 23 in Colorado and Arizona. He is the current JEA Certification Commission chairperson and the former JEA Southwest Region 2 director and JEA Colorado state director. Newton is co-founder and co-leader of the National Journalism Professional Learning Community. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Student Press Law Center. While at Grand Junction High School, The Orange & Black was consistently named the best large-school newspaper in Colorado by the Colorado High School Press Association. The Orange & Black was inducted into the NSPA Hall of Fame in 2003. The student news magazine has also earned a three NSPA Pacemakers (news magazine and online), a CSPA Gold Crown, and several NSPA Best of Show top ten rankings. He is a speaker at local, state, and national conventions, and summer workshops. Newton and his students’ publications are members of Journalism Education Association, Colorado High School Press Association, Quill and Scroll, National Scholastic Press Association, and Columbia Scholastic Press Association. He is married (Pam) and has two children (Chris, Jamie).

Tracy Ann Sena
Web Journalism
Tracy Anne Sena is the adviser of the broadview, the student print and Web news publications at Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco, where she is also the chair of the Computer Science department, providing a natural segue way as a trainer in computer applications and a frequent presenter at journalism and technology conferences. She also serves as a judge for several local and national journalism organizations. Ms. Sena is a 2009 NSPA Pioneer, 2007 California Journalism Educator of the Year, Journalism Education Association Medal of Merit recipient and Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser, and additionally serves on the Advisory Boards of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Advisers Association and the Center for Scholastic Journalism Kent State University and is president of JEA Northern California as well as a member of the JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission. She blogs at http://tracyannesena.com and tweets as @tasena.

Sue Skalicky
Opinion, Review and Column Writing
Sue Skalicky is a fourth year English 10 and journalism teacher at Century High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. She advises both the Century STAR newsmagazine and Century Spirit yearbook as well as teaches an introductory journalism 1 class. Sue has a bachelor’s degree in journalism, a bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s degree in secondary education. Over the past 21 years, Sue has worked as a medical photographer, a section editor/writer/photographer of a weekly newspaper, a leadership conference speaker and a freelance writer. She has been married for 22 years and has four teenage daughters.

Suzy Smith
TV Journalism
Suzy teaches news courses in BSU’s telecommunications department. She has more than 24 years experience in the industry, including working for CNN.com, CNN Sports and the Weather Channel.

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David Studinksi
Crossroads Adviser
Dave is Community Manager for mtvU’s College Media Network, which serves more than 600 college newspapers in the United States. He holds a master’s in telecommunications and a bachelor’s in journalism from Ball State University. A former, two-term editor-in-chief at the Ball State Daily News, he also served three years as president of the Indiana Collegiate Press Association.

He is the recipient of numerous state and national awards including an online news story Pacemaker and honors in the inaugural UWIRE Top 100 College Journalists list.

Eric Thomas
Newspaper Page Editors
Eric Thomas teaches yearbook and newspaper at St. Teresa’s Academy in Kansas City, Mo.  In 2008, he was named the Missouri’s Journalism Teacher of the Year.  The Dart newspaper has been nominated as a Pacemaker Finalist, and the Teresian yearbook was named a Gold Crown winner for 2007-8.  Thomas is a graduate of the University of Missouri, with a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism and a master’s degree in journalism education.

Sarah Verpooten
Yearbook
Sarah Verpooten has taught at Lake Central High School for eight years. She advises Quiver, which has recently been rated 9th in NPSA’s Best of Show competition and a Hoosier Star. She also teaches journalism and digital photography. Sarah was a JEA Rising Star and former IHSPA president.

Aimee Williams
Information Graphics
Aimee Williams was a designer and copy editor at the Marion (Ind.) Chronicle-Tribune before earning a master’s degree in secondary education from Ball State University. She currently teaches journalism and advises the student newspaper, The Munsonian, and yearbook, The Magician, staffs at Muncie Central High School.

Nicole Wilson
Yearbook
Nicole Wilson advises the Pinnacle yearbook at Carmel High School in Carmel, IN.  As the adviser at CHS, Wilson has the chance to work with high school students each day as they challenge themselves to plan and create their next award-winning yearbook.  Currently,Wilson also serves as secretary of the Indiana High School Press Association’s executive board, where she is working closely with other members to plan the annual IHSPA journalism convention that will occur in October.  Prior to working at CHS,Wilson advised the newspaper at New Albany High School in southern Indiana.

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.

Not sure which class is right for you? Click here to ask us!

Newspaper Classes

NP Editors (Editorial Leadership)

• Suited for Top Newspaper Editors
• Communication Strategies
• Team Building Exercises
• Time Management Techniques
• Staff Training
• Deadline Management
• Staff Guidelines, Policies & Manuals
• Story Budgets

NP Page/Section Editors

• Leadership
• Working with Writers and Photographers
• Assigning Stories
• Researching, Interviewing & Fact Checking
• AP Style & Editing
• Lead Writing
• Information Graphics
• Column Writing
• Photo Use & Impact
• Newspaper Packaging & Design

Basic NP Design

• Headline Writing
• Creating, Writing & Researching Information Graphics
• Folio Design
• Writing Display Type: Decks, Cutlines, Teasers, Kickers, Etc.
• Display Package Planning & Design
• Story Hierarchy, Placement & Design
• Teaser Use & Design
• Creating a NP Design Style Guide

NP Redesign

• Creating a New NP Design Style Guide
• Finding New Type Faces
• Design Trends
• New Ways to Organize Sections

Yearbook Classes

All yearbook students will sign up for the Yearbook class. Once you arrive, you’ll have the opportunity to take multiple courses in a variety of topics (you pick!). These topics include:

• Leadership
• Team Building
• Yearbook Design
• Theme Development
• Advertising and Sales
• Organization/ Ladder Development
• Copy Writing and Editing

General Audience Classes

Column, Review and Opinion Writing

• Types of Columns & Reviews
• Column vs. Opinion Writing
• Review vs. Column Writing
• Sources
• Research
• Column Voice
• Lead Writing
• Elements of a Column & Review
• Understanding Your Audience
• Observing Your Surroundings
• Purpose
• Law and Ethics

Information Graphics and Alternative Storytelling

• Design Styles
• Researching/Fact Finding
• Graphic Size, Structure & Organization
• Conceptualization
• Sketching
• Typography
• Headline/Content Writing
• Trends in Newspaper Graphics Reporting
• Trends in Magazine Graphics Reporting
• Adding Stress to Key Words
• Bullet Point Creation and Use
• Software Instruction
• Visual Storytelling

Using Adobe InDesign – FULL

• Preferences, Gutters, Frames & Text Boxes
• Placing Text/Images/Graphics
• Photo Resizing
• Jumping Text
• Spellcheck
• Tool Palette & Templates
• Short Cuts
• Color Palette & Style Palette & Libraries
• Masking
• Text Wraps & Frames
• Control Palette & Master Pages
• Typography
• Color Theory & Use
• Preferences & Libraries
• Saving

Advertising and Fundraising Strategies

• Budgets
• Contact Lists
• Market Surveys
• Media Packets
• Advertiser Objections
• Business Forms
• Basic Ad Design
• Ad Sales Techniques
• Manipulating Graphics
• Invoices
• Staff Training

Photography Classes

For all photo classes, students must bring their own digital cameras, card readers and installation software. It is encouraged students bring the equipment they intend to use during the school year.

Digital Photography

• Photo Composition
• Photojournalism vs. Art/Portrait Photography
• Photographing Emotion
• Photo Editing
• News Judgment
• Photo Ethics
• Capturing the Moment
• Photo Stories—Story Telling
• Designing with Photos
• Photo Editing & Selection Process
• Deadline Management
• Action Photography
• Making Photo Assignments

Emerging media classes

Online Journalism

• Target Audience
• Writing for Online vs. Print
• Color, Typography, Modular Design
• Structure and Organization
• Blogs
• Podcasting
• Links
• Content Management Systems and Making Regular Updates

Television Journalism

• Reporting
• Researching
• Interviewing
• Broadcast Writing & Conventions
• Story Selection & Newscast Lineup
• Producing
• Video Shooting & Editing
• Anchoring

Yearbook spread by Niki Prestel. Created at the 2009 5-Day Summer Workshop.

Want to see some student work from our 2009 workshops?

Click here for a directory of work!

HOW TO APPLY:

• Submit two letters of recommendation with your filled-out registration form.
• Include three writing, design or photography clips with explanations. Or, give us the link to a Web site you created or a portfolio site.
• Write a one-page narrative explaining why you should receive a scholarship.

All materials should accompany the workshops registration form.

All students are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to students from diverse backgrounds and diverse schools and those who meet financial need.

After a long day of intense learning, wind down at one of our nightly social activities or sporting events!

Sporting activities include daily competitions in dizzy bat, hula hoop racing and more, plus our annual Volleyball Tournament, culminating in the Night of Champions! At Night of Champions, the winning volleyball team will play the faculty and staff, an intensely heated battle followed by a student raffle and dance.

Social activities include:

Card-inal Game Night – cards, euchre, Twister, Apples to Apples, Trivial Pursuit, cornhole, ring toss, etc.

Talent Show – whistle, play guitar, dance, yodel, act like a cat, whatever you are good at!

Karaoke – with music from the 70s, 80s, 90s and today!