Category Archives: teaching with technology

Mentoring Monday: Create your own music with GarageBand to avoid copyright violations

by Judy Robinson JEA Mentor Committee member A yearbook adviser asked her JEA mentor if the yearbook could include music as part of the yearbook’s online content. All published music is copyrighted, and using it is a copyright violation. It’s … Continue reading

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SmugMug’s free account for non-profits can mean fundraising opportunities for high school media staffs

by Julie E. Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Good news from our JEA colleague Aaron Manfull, who is chair of the JEA Digital Media Committee. Aaron announced in a JEA Digital Media blog post (and also on the JEA listserv) … Continue reading

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Mentoring Monday: SIPA Convention energizes student journalists and advisers and demonstrates benefits of JEA Mentoring Program

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair JEA Mentoring Committee member Judy Robinson and I were part of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association Convention last weekend in Columbia, S.C. More than 400 students and teachers attended the three-day convention that … Continue reading

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Mentoring Monday: Advice on apps for creating multimedia stories with mobile devices

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair What apps are the best for enabling students to tell multimedia stories? Allissa Richardson, a faculty member at Bowie State University, provided some answers in her session “Top Apps for iPod Storytelling” at … Continue reading

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Mentoring Monday: JEA mentee shares story of his newspaper staff’s coverage of shooting of former student

Editor’s note: Steve Hanf teachers Intro to Journalism and is the newspaper adviser at R.J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem, N.C. His JEA mentor is Martha Rothwell. by Steve Hanf News reports from the neighboring city that Monday morning were tragic, … Continue reading

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Mentoring Monday: Free to Tweet contest encourages students and advisers to apply the power of Twitter to promoting the power of the First Amendment

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair From now until Dec. 15, 140 characters could mean $5,000. The First Amendment Center is sponsoring the second “Free to Tweet” event, which encourages high school, community college and university students (14 and … Continue reading

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JEA Mentor Forum underway at JEA/NSPA convention in San Antonio

Ohio mentors Wayne and Georgia Dunn demonstrated using Google Hangout with their mentee Josh Davis. They use Google Hangouts in mentoring at a distance. (Photo by Peggy Gregory)

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Mentoring Monday: Mentors encouraged to contribute ideas for Mentor Forum

by Bill Flechtner JEA Mentoring Committee and Oregon mentor We have big plans for the Mentor Forum on Thursday (Nov. 15) that include you as an integral part of what we are doing. So if you are attending, you have … Continue reading

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Mentoring Monday: How high school media can use Pinterest

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Pinterest is one of the new rages in technology, allowing users to “pin” photos of interest to a virtual board and then share their photos with others. People have been using Pinterest to … Continue reading

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Mentoring Monday: Back-to-school journalism workshop provide training and motivation

by Linda Barrington JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Wisconsin Mentor From the senior editor who is anxious to make the publication even better than last year to the freshman reporter who is unsure of what she’s gotten herself into, back-to-school journalism … Continue reading

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