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Maps

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Getting Here for Summer Workshops

There are several ways to get to campus for our Summer Student Workshops:

Drive Yourself

Students  can drive their cars to Workshops and park on campus for free. However, students will not be allowed to use their cars during the week.

Drop Off

Students can be dropped off during registration and then picked up after the week is over.

Airport Shuttle

Students can fly into the Indianapolis International Airport. The Workshops office will provide a shuttle to campus at the following times:

• Saturday, July 24 at 5 p.m.
• Sunday, July 25 at 10 a.m.

The shuttle will depart Thursday, July 29 at noon. We suggest that flights depart no earlier than 3 p.m. on Thursday.

For On the Ball Workshop students, the shuttle will leave the airport at 10 a.m. Friday for arrivals and will leave on Sunday for departures at noon. We suggest that flights depart no earlier than 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.

The shuttle fee is $45.00 round-trip per student. Students arriving Saturday also need $30 to stay in the dorms an extra night.

Click here to download the shuttle and extra dorm night request form.

Getting here for Journalism Days

It is the responsibility of the school to provide transportation to and from Journalism Days. Students may be dropped off in front of Emens Auditorium and picked up anywhere on campus, although we suggest the Art and Journalism Building’s parking lot. Parking passes will be provided to participating schools and buses may park without passes on College Avenue. Maps will be mailed to schools detailing these locations a few weeks before each Journalism Day event.

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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.

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!