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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.

Experimenting with Google Flourish and survey data

Posted by on Aug 1, 2019 in Blog, Projects | Comments Off on Experimenting with Google Flourish and survey data

After being introduced to the Flourish data visualization tool, I was eager to see how it might be used in a practical way wit the kind of...

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Planning multi-platform coverage to enhance audience engagement

Posted by on Jul 31, 2019 in Blog | 1 comment

Student journalists who have been through the print production process know and understand what it means to think of a timely and unique...

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SoJo Idea: Bus driver shortage plagues district

Posted by on Jul 30, 2019 in Solutions story ideas | Comments Off on SoJo Idea: Bus driver shortage plagues district

Solutions-based story idea STORY: The district struggles to hire and retain qualified bus drivers, leading to drivers having to drive...

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Embracing discomfort: How risking failure makes us, and our students, better

Posted by on Jul 17, 2019 in Blog | Comments Off on Embracing discomfort: How risking failure makes us, and our students, better

I’m really bad at being bad at things. When I suck at something, I avoid it. I try to find a way out of it. Sometimes I toil away at it...

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