1000 Creative Prompts

This is another great book to purchase for writing prompts for blogs, podcasts, scripts, etc....1000 Creative Writing Prompts by Brian Cohen covers all the bases in one book. It will be a great investment for bell work for 2011-2012.

Podcast Book

Podcast Solutions by Dan Klass is a great starter book for students who wish to tackle the elements of online journalism.  Develop an end of the year fun project in which students create their own podcasts.

Topic Suggestion

This is a great topic suggestion for the first issue of your newspaper next year.  How do teens waste their money?  I'm sure the economy won't be turning around before September, so this would be a very insightful piece of investigative reporting.

Money Wasting

Censorship

This is an interesting censorship article.  Share and discuss obscenity and censorship with your J-kids.

Barnes and Noble Censorship

Arkansas Advisers

If you are not a member of the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association, please join.  It is a wonderful opportunity for your students to receive feedback and awards.  Also, the advisers association is a great place to network.

Camp ASPA is coming up in June.  If you did not receive an email from Allen Loibner, please comment on this blog post.  I'll be sure you receive Camp information.