Extended sessions are sessions that last longer than the usual 50-minute breakouts. Pre-registration is required but there is no additional fee. You can add these sessions to your registration using the “view/modify registration” link in your original confirmation email starting at noon CT on March 22 (the day after early-bird registration closes). Registration for these sessions ends April 2.
These sessions are available only for students and there is a limit of three students from the same school per session.
Better Interviews, Better Stories
9-11:50 a.m. Friday. Taught by Jim Streisel.
In this three-hour, workshop-style session, students will experience the interviewing process from start to finish. They will learn how to find great sources, develop lists of quality questions, listen for storytelling quotes and eventually incorporate all of those elements into great stories.
The Total Online Package
9-11:50 a.m. Friday. Taught by Michelle Balmeo and Aaron Manfull.
Packaged online stories (that include text, visuals, embeddable interactive tools, and more) can elevate your coverage and take your online storytelling to the next level. We’ll learn, apply and critique in this hands-on extended session. Bringing a computer and mobile device/camera is recommended.
How To Outsmart Trolls and Troublemakers
10-11:50 a.m. Friday. Taught by Barbara McCormack.
In this two-hour session, get the skills to sort through the good, the bad and the ugly in the quest for truth. Explore what fake news is and isn’t, the dangers and motivations behind it, and your journalistic responsibilities. Can you ace our Fake-or-Real Challenge?
Yearbook Jump Start: 2018-2019 Planning
10-11:50 a.m. Friday. Taught by Amy Morgan and Kathy Habiger.
Editors/leaders for the 2018-2019 yearbook plan to attend this two-hour session to get a jump start on the new book. We’ll talk theme development, leadership and team building and have plenty of hands-on activities so please plan to stay for the entire two-hour session.
Developing Engaging Online Packages Using Multimedia Tools
Noon-2:50 p.m. Friday. Taught by Julia Satterthwaite.
This session will expose students to best practices for online content through examining multimedia packages, demonstrate how to utilize a variety of multimedia tools and provide an opportunity for students to apply what they’ve learned. Students will report, create and share with the group.
Photojournalism Basics
1-2:50 p.m. Friday. Taught by Jim McCrossen.
In this two-hour session, we’ll learn the basics of ethical photojournalism. We’ll learn how to use our cameras, compose great storytelling photos and use Photoshop, ethically, to enhance the photos not fake the photos. Students should bring their cameras to the session.
Human Journalism
9-11:50 a.m. Saturday. Taught by Mitch Eden and Casey Nichols.
Storytellers are on the comeback and the realization that everyone has stories to tell is at the heart of human journalism. Join two storytelling junkies to explore ways to get into the personal stories that give your media heart. We’ll first explore the interviewing and publications styles for journalists of all types- broadcast, print, online, social media and yearbook. In hour two you’ll go out and practice and in the final hour we’ll review your work.
DSLR Camera Boot Camp
10-11:50 a.m. Saturday. Taught by Kathy Daly.
If you have ever taken that “perfect” picture only to find that it is grainy and out of focus, this session is for you. You will not only learn the rules of composition, but also how your camera actually works. No previous photo skills required. A DSLR (or similar) camera is required for this hands-on workshop.
In Perfect Sequence
10-11:50 a.m. Saturday. Taught by Alyssa Boehringer.
Thoughtful sequencing is the key to dynamic visual storytelling. In this two-hour session, you’ll learn what shots to get and how to use them.