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A free summer seminar for experienced high school journalism advisers

From the 23 teachers who attended this workshop in July 2019, we have included Solutions Journalism Story Ideas, other Story Ideas for a whole range of topics and Tech Examples of something they learned, many of these for data visualization, plus some resources anyone can use in the future for these topics.

Solutions Journalism Network resources

Link to WGME Maine broadcast solutions story on re-purposing discarded prescription drugs: https://wgme.com/news/i-team/i-team-some-states-reuse-tons-of-unused-prescription-drugs-maine-burns-them?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

Solutions Journalism slide presentation —CSJ Kent State July 18, 2019

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Sara didn’t get through all of her slides, so if you want to explore SJN in more depth, go to the Learning Lab on the Solutions Journalism website and take the Basic Toolkit course. It’s about two hours long and free to users, as are all of the resources on the SJN website:
Check out the JSchool Curriculum Builder. It’s based on course materials and insights from college-level journalism courses, but is probably adaptable, at least in part, for high schools:
-The series of write-ups of interviews with educators teaching Solutions Journalism in a variety of ways: https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/tagged/jschools
-The story on Complicating the Narratives, about applying mediation approaches to journalism:

 

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