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Desktop Publishing Using InDesign for High School
Publications Mondays, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.,
Oct 3-31, Nov 7-Dec 5, Feb 23-March 23
(5 weeks) This one-credit workshop draws a great mix of undergraduate education majors, current area newspaper and yearbook advisers and even journalism majors who want to learn an additional design program.

For more information, call Candace at 330-672-8297. Available for graduate or undergraduate credit.

Special one-day workshops for students may be offered on Saturdays, if advisers indicate interest.

Teaching High School Journalism
Tuesdays, 4:45 - 7 p.m., Jan 17-May 1
This course is required of all those getting licensed in Integrated Language Arts through Kent State. Other universities require it, too. If you are advising without such a course, you'd be amazed how much easier your job can be. 3 credits, graduate or undergraduate.

Basic Skills for Publications Advisers
Intersession, 9 a.m. - noon, May-June (3 weeks)
From law and ethics to using the Internet, those wanting more background to be effective media advisers cover it all here. 3 credits, graduate or undergraduate.

ASNE High School Journalism Institute
July 11 - 23, 2004
Thirty-five teachers from all over the US spend two weeks at Kent State last summer, learning more about newspapers and how to advise student publications.

The three-credit, all-expense-paid workshop is sponsored by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funded through a grant to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Teachers spent July 6- 18, 2003 on the Kent State campus, hearing from newsroom pros and classroom pros.

Partnering with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is the Akron Beacon Journal, which contributes speakers and conducts a tour of its facilities and a panel on law and ethics. Participants, along with workshop director Candace Perkins Bowen and instructors John Bowen, H.L. Hall and Susan Hathaway Tantillo, also visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland and Porthouse Theatre.

For more information about the program, check the ASNE site at http://highschooljournalism.org/teachers/asneprogramsinstitute.htm. Applications for 2006 institutes will be posted there.

Photo: Roger Fidler, director of Kent State's Institute for Cyber Information, share his views of the future of media following the opening dinner July 7. http://jmc.kent.edu/faculty/fidler.htm

Photo: Knowing the basics of law and ethics is vital for newspaper advisers. Mark Goodman, director of the Student Press Law Center, spent a day at the Kent State -- and each of the four other workshops -- to share his insight. http://www.splc.org