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.

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Workshop dates: July 25-29, 2010

Get the scoop on working for one of the best college newspapers in the country! You won’t be sitting in class; you’ll be given the role of a Ball State Daily News staff member. Experience what it’s like to work for college media at a 2009 Pacemaker award-winning college publication.

You won’t just be covering what’s happening during workshops. Under the supervision of Daily News staff 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 that will be distributed to the entire campus.

Click here to read a past issue of The Daily News created by Daily News Experience workshop participants.

Click here to visit the Daily News Web site.

NOTE: You must apply for this competitive program. The DN Experience is not for beginners, but for those with high school publication experience interested in transitioning to college media. You must be going into your junior or senior year of high school or be a freshman in college beginning Fall 2010 to apply. Applications should be received by June 1.

Registration is $365. Meals and transportation are not included.

Check out these interviews with 2009 DN|X participants!

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!

Lani Castaneda dines in The Atrium in the Art and Journalism Building.

Meal Cards

Journalism Workshops offers meal cards in the amount of $60 and $35 for students attending workshops. These cards are in addition to the registration fee and can be purchased using the registration form or at check-in the day workshops begin.

Meal cards can be used to purchase food on campus and are a convenient way to ensure your student has a budget for meals for the time he or she is on campus. We generally suggest a $60 meal card for 5-Day and DN Experience attendees and a $35 card for On The Ball Attendees. Meal cards are hole-punched so that students can carry them securely on their name badges, which they are required to wear throughout their stay on campus.

Meal cards come preloaded in $35 and $60 amounts.

Students will eat most of their meals at The Atrium, a dining facility located on the first floor of the Art and Journalism Building, where students will be attending classes. The Atrium features a Sbarro Pizzeria, Chick-Fil-A, made-to-order sandwich and salad bar, McKinley Grill and more. For more information about The Atrium, click here: Atrium Web site

The Atrium accepts meal cards, cash and Visa/Mastercard. Students can expect to spend about $2-$3 for breakfast,  $5-7 for lunch and $5-7 for dinner.

The Village

Students also may choose to eat in The Village, a small business district on campus that features a Jimmy John’s, China Express, Pita Pit, Subway and local restaurants such as Greek’s Pizzeria and Scotty’s Brewhouse. Students are not permitted in The Village after 10 p.m., but can use cash or major credit cards to eat there during the day.

Housing

All summer workshop students will be housed in the Woodworth Complex on Ball State’s campus. Students may request roommates on their registration forms although under no circumstances will boys be allowed on girls’ floors or vice versa at any time. The Workshops staff keeps records of room assignments so that in the event of an emergency, we can locate a student promptly. Switching roommates once you have arrived is not allowed.

Free wireless Internet is available on campus, including in the Woodworth Complex.

A resident assistant oversees each floor of the Woodworth Complex, performing curfew checks and overseeing student’s dormitory needs. RA assignments will be available closer to the date of the workshop, and RA’s cell phone numbers will be provided to students.

To Bring With You

• Fan (those arriving by plane will be provided with a fan upon arrival)
• Twin-size bedding and pillow
• Toiletries
• Spending money
• Alarm clock
• Umbrella
• Towels and flip flops (for shower)
• Non-refrigerated snacks
• Sunscreen (especially photo students)
• Water bottle (especially photo students)