The JEA Curriculum Initiative team is providing these resources outside of the members-only curriculum area, and in coordination with the anywhereJEA initiative, to support journalism advisers teaching in virtual or hybrid context. Resources posted to this page will remain available while this initiative is active, including …
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Description Using a flipped classroom method, students will explore websites and YouTube videos for strategies and techniques for taking good sports photos. They will evaluate those websites and discuss what they’ve learned. Then, they will practice different techniques by visiting a physical education class. Finally, they …
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Description Students read a blog post on using data to find stories, then apply the principles to their own beat coverage and generate story ideas. Objectives Students will be able to read and extract the main ideas from an article. Students will discuss and evaluate the …
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This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say …
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Individualized curriculum consultation services now available We’re offering curriculum consultations for JEA members both virtually and in-person at JEA conventions. Click HERE for more information. _______________________ NOTE: This page was formerly titled “Curriculum Preview.” Those links and lessons are still available at the bottom of …
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Description Students will learn about stories on the web that highlight data and the rationale for using a free online creation tool called Piktochart. Then they will create their own data visualization using this tool. Objectives Students will create a multimedia data visualization. Students will appropriately …
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This lesson will help students to understand the difference between writing headlines for print and online stories. Specifically, students will understand how search engines work and the relationship between good headlines and improved search results or more web traffic.
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Students evaluate how professional news organizations break news using the Web and social media tools.
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Students read a blog post on using data to find stories, then apply the principles to their own beat coverage and generate story ideas.
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Students read a series of stories covering a developing story to understand how continuous online coverage differs from the periodical print coverage most high school media staffs are accustomed to.
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