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MIPA’s One-Day Workshop provides students and advisers a chance to take their skills to the next level. Spend a day at the Michigan State University School of Journalism getting hands-on training in a variety of skill areas for news, yearbook and video student media outlets.
Take the time to learn the tools you’ve been meaning to get to all year. The One-Day Workshop also is a great way to train new staff members and leaders to prepare for next year.
Enrollment is limited, so don’t wait until the last minute to register!
Bring your own lunch or add lunch for only $5 to your workshop registration.
The Classes
InDesign for Publications
- Using tools
- Placing text and graphics
- Formatting text
- Importing photos
- Designing a basic page
- Using grids effectively
- Selecting type
- Using libraries and styles
Take Your Website to the Next Level
- Managing content on a WordPress site
- Finding new themes and plug-ins to keep up with current trends
- Embedding data from outside sources
- Organizing your staff to create content
Jumpstart Your Yearbook
- Developing your theme
- Learning current yearbook trends
- Using effective typography
- Understanding mods
- Creating voice
Newspaper Design Clinic
- Analyzing current newspaper
- Using effective typography
- Designing new standing heads
- Creating alternative story forms
- Finding suitable art & photos
- Updating your design and coverage concepts to help your print publication compliment your online presence
Bring copies of your paper and a sketch pad for ideas.
Photoshop
- Toning photos for publication
- Sizing photos for resolution
- Organizing files
- Creating cutouts
Building Next Year’s Staff*
- Recruiting good students for your publication staff
- Generating/updating a staff manual
- Using portfolios for semester exams or for generating writing, design and photography ideas over the summer
- Selling advertising and canvasing the city over the summer
- Planning a first day publication
- Using Storify and other tech. tools to generate interest in social media accounts for your publication
- Justifying to administrators and curriculum directors how journalism meets Common Core state standards
- Lesson planning for the last few weeks of school after seniors leave
Advisers and future editors should consider taking this course in pairs or small groups and should bring laptops, if possible.
Video Best Practices
- Learn the ins and outs of MIPA’s Video Best Practices
- Refresh experienced students’ knowledge of journalistic content
- Introduce newbie broadcast journalists to all that goes into content for a show
- Run through technical considerations for conducting interviews, creating good video, and producing a news show
- Look at the process of producing a studio show or live news broadcast