A new pre-convention workshop for advisers only is available at the Portland convention. Read about it here and then sign up for it when you register for the convention. This workshop is not listed in the registration booklet PDF, but it is available for registration.
Adviser-Only Workshop: Professional Learning Community
It’s difficult for journalism teachers and advisers to find a fit in building-level Professional Learning Communities if they are the only journalism teacher in the school. This day-long workshop will provide a first-time productive PLC experience for participants. Advisers can join with other journalism professionals to create working PLCs using a national journalism PLC (NJPLC) model. Advisers who participate can come as a group, join with other participants to create a PLC on site or simply learn about the NJPLC model and take that knowledge home to create their own group. Taught by Jim Streisel, Carmel (Ind.) High School, and others from the JEA PLC committee, participants are certain to walk away knowing there are others who share the same challenges as opportunities.
Two standout journalists will speak to attendees of the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Portland, April 15-18.
THURSDAY, 7:30 p.m. — Nigel Jaquiss, 47, has been a reporter at Willamette Week since 1998. In 2005, he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of investigative articles that exposed a former mayor’s inappropriate relationship with a teenage girl during his tenure. Jaquiss has won other local and national reporting honors, including two first place awards from Investigative Writers and Editors and three fi rst place awards from the Education Writers Association. He has twice been runner-up for the Bruce Baer Award, given annually to the best reporter in Oregon.
Prior to joining Willamette Week, Jaquiss traded oil for 11 years in New York and Singapore. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
FRIDAY, 1 p.m. — Tim Harrower has been an editor, designer and columnist at newspapers large (The Oregonian), midsized (The Rochester Times-Union) and small (the Times weeklies in Beaverton, Ore.). He became a journalist in the ’80s after his fi rst career choice — rock ’n’ roll superlegend — fizzled out. Harrower’s first book, “The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook,” has been a fixture in newsrooms and classrooms around the world, translated into Russian, Chinese and Polish. His followup, “Inside Reporting,” is America’s most popular journalism textbook.
He currently hosts journalism workshops, consults on redesigns, noodles around with multimedia, composes music and writes fiction at his dog-and-frog ranch deep in the Oregon woods.
Use this map to plan your Portland trip. It has all the relevant hotels and convention center locations plus a few more key points of interest with descriptions.
If you have ideas for more helpful locations or points of interest, send suggestions to logan at studentpress dot org.
To take full advantage of the convention, delegates who live outside the Portland metro area are encouraged to stay at one of the following sanctioned JEA/NSPA convention hotels for the Spring 2010 convention. The Oregon Convention Center will house all convention activities. Continue reading ‘Reserve rooms at one of our four convention hotels’
This travelogue promoting the Portland convention was created by the students at jagtv, the broadcast program at Century HS, Hillsboro, Ore. Check it out:
Whether you be a newspaper reporter, a broadcast anchor, a freelance photographer, a yearbook editor or an online producer, you must capture the here and now.
And the 2010 JEA/NSPA National Spring Journalism Convention in Portland is here to help you. From the MAX rail system, that uses current to link your hotel to the convention center, to the Willamette River, whose currents run right through town, to the workshops sessions that will help you and your editors become current in your practice, the spring convention will be all about what’s current. In design, in photography, in Web and in broadcast. Located just blocks from the currents of the Willamette River, the Oregon Convention Center will be a place for students to meet, greet and exchange ideas.
Ringed by natural beauty — Mount Hood, the Columbia River Gorge and the Willamette Valley wine country — Portland prides itself on protecting its environs. Portland also offers “green appeal” of the monetary variety. Since Oregon has no sales tax, Portland’s designer boutiques and department stores are a shopper’s dream. The “Fareless Square” encourages the use of public transportation — all light rail, bus and streetcar travel within the downtown core is free. Take some time to browse Powell’s Books, the world’s largest independent book store. Dine on organic food from local farmers. Enjoy the breathtaking beauty that is America’s “greenest” city.
The breakout sessions feature current professionals and students sharing their experiences. Break with a Pro will help students learn about how the local media professionals are affected by the current media challenges. Swap shops give editors the chance to share (and trade!) current trends in their publications or electronic media. And the keynote sessions give all a chance to go away with new ideas to keep their publications current, vibrant and fresh.
So come to Portland to mix and come to Portland to mingle, but definitely come to Portland to stay Current.