AEJMC to offer FREE virtual workshop for high school or middle school advisers Aug. 5

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Join the Scholastic Journalism Division of AEJMC, the international association of college and university journalism educators, for a FREE virtual workshop on current issues in high school journalism.

The workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PDT (1 - 6 p.m. EST) on Wednesday, Aug. 5. All sessions take place on Zoom – a link will be emailed to you shortly before the start of the event.

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Topics include:

  • Making remote learning less "remote" for student journalists;

  • Teaching student journalists how to use data and statistics in their reporting;

  • Helping student journalists understand and cover the Black Lives Matter movement and the national reckoning on race;

  • Learning how current research in scholastic journalism applies to school newsrooms.

  • Plus a roundtable with down and dirty info about legal and ethical issues in today’s student media and additional info and assignments on photography/visuals and reporting and writing in today’s at least partly remote world.

This workshop is open to any high school or middle school teacher who works with student media, including newspapers, yearbooks, magazines, television, radio, podcasts or online/digital.

Use this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aejmc-2020-scholastic-journalism-division-teach-in-tickets-113849583168

For more information about the Teach-In, contact:

For more information about the Teach-In, contact Marina Hendricks, vice head of the AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division, at marina.hendricks@sdstate.edu.