In his Fall 2012 JEA Column of Quill & Scroll magazine, Mark Newton shared his joys as a journalism adviser. He also shared those of other journalism teachers: I love watching students carry real, honest and important conversations onto the page.” — Adam Dawkins, Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora, Colo. Answers the current buzz […]
Eight college freshmen are beginning their journalism or communication studies this fall with 2012 Quill and Scroll scholarships. George and Ophelia Gallup Scholarship winners Beatriz Costa-Lima (Munster HS, Munster, Ind.) is attending the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Kelsey Bell (Francis Howell North HS, St. Charles, Mo.) is attending Ohio University. Edward J. Nell Scholarship recipients […]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b8EC3fLsAo[/tube] Watch some of our students tell stories about their experiences.
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqZrawrofw&feature=context&context=C422d3ffA[/tube] Watch Quill and Scroll students share their experiences when they take the show on the road.
Greg Stiles, right Quill and Scroll Club Members Reflect Before computers with spell check, cellphones, and the World Wide Web, there was the Big Inch Club. This Quill and Scroll club honored high school journalists who had written more than 10,000 column inches, an equivalent to writing 90 full pages of a daily newspaper. In […]
Two Quill and Scroll members share their lives since high school Literally cutting and pasting is what it took for Dolores Strauss and her fellow students to create their high school newspaper in 1947. The Quill and Scroll alumnus described the detailed process of typing everything […]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHMoW6Nohs&context=C4edb964ADvjVQa1PpcFPd58cBGQJFc7ylGhibHhWb6EN_mFF84gw=[/tube] Adding narrative writing techniques will increase reader interest, as well as strengthen journalistic writing. Tom French, a master of the narrative writing form who is on the Indiana University School of Journalism faculty, shares his observations in a video interview with Indiana University graduate student Tara Bender. Read more about narrative writing in an […]
By Tyson Braun The Internet is vast but can fit each of us. Our news can be precisely what we are interested in reading, and “The Office” is on when we’re ready to view it. A challenge for this made-for-consumers medium is the need to locate the information. Some day, literally every bit of information
David Schwartz Executive Director Iowa High School Press Association If we’re going to write a column about blogging, let’s first address a burning issue: Nobody knows, exactly, what blogging is. Or rather, everybody knows what it is, and the answer is, “Everything.” Blogging is a diary. Many of us read blogs detailing the intimate details […]
Do you know how many people are visiting your blog? Here are ways to get your blog known and increase your readership. Make your blog public In setting up your blog’s preferences, be sure your blog is checked as public. That means the blogging service you use will let others see that you have a […]
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award-winner Isaac Stanley-Becker wrote about a controversial proposal in Chicago to open a public school for gay students. The Sad Story of How a Gay High School Got Derailed Published in U-High Midway (University of Chicago Laboratory High School) April 28, 2009, pp 6, 9 Taelor Dorsey travels every weekday from […]
Video Gaming Popularity Grows, Generating Interest in Reviews. Jayson Gegner Video Game Reviewer and University of Iowa Graduate “Do what you love.” “Better late than never.” “Get your foot in the door.” These idioms appear to repeat ad infinitum from the moment we receive our first high school gradepoint average through the rest of our […]
