more than 90 minutes | JEA Curriculum Initiative

August 22, 2017

by sadwers

Leadership and Team Building

Training leaders how to be leaders

August 22, 2017

by sadwers

Leadership and Team Building

Learning how personality types can influence leadership

August 14, 2017

by abrinelson

Creating an easy cell phone video with Adobe Premiere Clip

Description When students are covering an event as part of a beat or other piece of online coverage, they may find themselves in a situation that would be complemented by a video clip. However, the student is all alone and nobody with a video camera is …

August 14, 2017

by abrinelson

Covering an event for a beat

Description As the primary type of coverage done on the web, students need to quickly become proficient in writing beats online. In this lesson, students will learn how to plan beat coverage and then, as a class, cover a schoolwide event. It would be helpful for …

August 14, 2017

by abrinelson

Creating a multimedia feature story for the Web

Description This is designed as a culminating web project. It is useful to do this after students have been taught how to write a feature, how to integrate multimedia elements into a story, and how to take photographs with captions to complement a story. A list …

August 12, 2017

by abrinelson

Creating infographics with Piktochart

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 …

August 12, 2017

by abrinelson

Creating a Timeline with Knight Lab

Description Students will learn about the stories on the web that highlight time frames and the rationale for using a free online creation tool from Knight Lab called Timeline. Then, they will create their own data visualization using this tool. Objectives Students will create a multimedia …

February 15, 2017

by sarahnichols

News Gathering

Using descriptive statistics to analyze data

This lesson introduces students to basic descriptive statistics used for initial data analysis. The lesson teaches students how to run introductory calculations in Microsoft Excel in order to begin to see what stories might exist in the data.

February 15, 2017

by sarahnichols

News Gathering

Introduction to spreadsheets

This lesson introduces students to working with a spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Students learn how to clean up a spreadsheet in Excel, keep a data diary and set up a data dictionary.

December 10, 2016

by sarahnichols