June 2009 Stet by MIPAMSU

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Michigan Interscholastic Press Association June 2009 Vol. 36, No. 3 www.mipamsu.org

Inside Twitter Time

2 Conference Wrap-Up

4 Yearbook Spartan Contest Form

On-Site Contest Photo Carry-In First Place Winner/Sports: Caitlin Edberg, Stevenson HS

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I Jeremy Van Hof DeWitt HS

send tweets. I use TweetDeck, and I know what Twitterific is. I know the difference between @ replies and #topics. All this makes me, along with 7 million other Twitter users, the object of much derision from the uninitiated. Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a micro-blogging site that asks its users to post short messages that answer a simple question: “What are you doing?” The messages (called tweets) are posted instantly on-line, and are distributed to the network of users that have signed up to follow the sender. Users can send and receive tweets on-line, using the text messaging system on their cell phones, or with any one of a host of applications for iPhones, PDA’s and computer desktops. The June 15 “Time” cover article on Twitter seeks to explain to the masses just what it is all us twitterers find so interesting about the constant, often mundane, sometimes nonsensical 140-character messages that have begun to fill our text message in-boxes. “Time’s” conclusion is that Twitter represents the next paradigm in communication, and that because of its heavy reliance on user-generated and third party innovation Twitter is uniting us in a host of ways that, to date,

MIPA Officers 2008-2009 President, Jeremy Van Hof, DeWitt HS 1st Vice President, Lynn Strause, retired, East Lansing HS 2nd Vice President, C.E. Sikkenga, Grand Haven HS Secretary, Kim Kozian, L’Anse Creuse HS North Treasurer, Brian Wilson, Waterford Kettering HS Trustee, Tim Morley, Inland Lakes HS Trustee, Sue Spalding, Quincy HS Trustee, Pam Bunka, Fenton HS Newspaper Chair, Julie Price, Haslett HS Yearbook Chair, Lynn Strause, East Lansing HS Broadcast Chair, Diane Herder, Laingsburg HS Legislative Chair, Gloria Olman, retired, Utica HS Workshop Chair, Betsy Pollard Rau, retired, H.H. Dow HS Middle School Chair, Jenny Birmelin, Orchard Lake MS Hall of Fame Chair, Jeff Nardone, Grosse Pointe South HS Immediate Past President, Rod Satterthwaite, Dexter HS Executive Director, Cheryl Pell, Michigan State University MIPA Office, Amy Brandt, Jon Vereecke, Jayna Salk, MSU students

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the web has failed to touch on. For instance, Twitter offers its users a more intimate view into the lives of the network of friends and celebrities that they follow. This can benefit all the users in a number of ways. If I see an article I find interesting I can instantly post a link to it, for all my friends to see. If I see a movie, I can post a two sentence review of it, and my likeminded friends will have an immediate and first-hand account of the film’s quality. Of course, I can also choose to twitter inane details about my life, and my friends will be subjected to a series of updates telling them how many shingles remain to be nailed to my garage roof. But beyond being a means of sharing personal information with friends, Twitter is fast becoming a significant communication tool in the news industry. Every major news organization posts tweets, and many big-name journalists do as well. This allows Twitter users to get instant news updates from sources that they care about, and to get a picture of the daily workings of a real live journalist. So how can school publications tap into this? It turns out some already have, with mixed results.

Brian Wilson (@wilsob01), adviser of the Waterford Kettering Murmur said that his newspaper staff has just begun using Twitter (@theMurmur). “I have a student who posts,” he said. “She would post about upcoming school events (our distribution, plays, yearbook day, etc), or sporting events as they happened.” Wilson said that he envisions a future where students send text messages to the newspaper staff detailing school events as they happen. Then the newspaper could re-post the messages on Twitter, for all the school to see. He sees Twitter as being a new way to make the newspaper staff relevant and to alter the way that his students engage in reporting. Twitter can also be useful in helping students in the news gathering process. The staff can send out a tweet telling the student body that planning for the next issue has begun. Students could reply with story ideas or even brief “tweets-tothe-editor” to help push the direction of the news staff’s reporting. Similarly a yearbook staff could use Twitter to self-promote their book. Students could be informed

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June 22–July 17, 2009 On-line MSU course: Power Advising July 13–31, 2009 Teacher Workshops Aug. 2–6, 2009 MIPA Student Workshop Oct. 19, 2009 Fall Conference at Lansing Center Nov. 5, 2009 Middle School Conference at MSU Union

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Watch for larger selection of adviser classes this fall

The School of Journalism is ramping up its course offerings for teachers during the school year. “Strong attendance in the online courses last fall and spring have told us that teachers can take classes during the school year and they seem to like the online environment,” said Cheryl Pell, course coordinator. The J-School will offer three online classes this fall starting on Sept. 21 and ending Dec. 4. Scheduled are JRN 852, News Writing and Editing, taught by Bobby Hawthorne; JRN 853, Business Strategems for Scholastic Journalism, taught by Betsy Rau; and JRN 858, Student Media Design, taught by Lynn Strause. Pell thinks the business class is the only one like it in the country. “Media advisers are running a small business out of their classrooms. We wanted to help them with that,” she said. Student Media Design, taught for the first time online, will focus on typography, using a grid to design, color, and understanding “voice” in design. “Typography is a really weak area in many of the publications I see,” Pell said. Also this fall, the J-School is taking its scholastic journalism show on the road to the Macomb University Center. JRN 855 (Yearbook Advising) and JRN 854 (Newspaper Advising) will both be taught on four separate Saturdays: Sept. 26, Oct 10, Nov. 7 and Dec. 5. Lynn Strause will teach the Yearbook Advising class and Betsy Rau will teach the Newspaper Advising class. For more information, please contact Pell at pell@ msu.edu, or call her at (517) 353-6761.

MIPA Web site makes major changes

IPA introduced its new Web site at the Spring Conference in April. The MIPA Board decided to get a facelift for the site, which has been in existence since the early 90s. We decided to leave Dreamweaver in the dust by using Web 2.0 applications. Aaron Olson, a former Fenton HS newspaper staff member, designed the new site for MIPA. Olson is a student in the School of Journalism. As some of you know, we’ve been using Flickr, Facebook and Google for some time now, but this site offers the opportunity to pull it all together and access everything directly from our Web

site. Plus we think it’s pretty cool looking! Our new site will give you the option to search for what you’re looking for, post comments, see other students’ publications, access all of our forms and publications easily and more. In the future, we plan to add online registration for all of our events, including workshops; the ability to text message you about upcoming events and deadlines if you want and more. We are using WordPress to make this all happen, and we are using GoDaddy as our host. We’re grateful to Aaron because this has made updating the Web site much easier.

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CONFERENCE WRAP UP

Lots of people were acknowledged at the MIPA Spring Conference on April 28. See on-site contest winners, new board members and more on this page and pages 5–8.

GOLDEN PEN

ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR Dave Jackson, principal at L’Anse Creuse HS—North, received the Administrator of the Year Award for his dedication to the journalism program at his school. Kim Kozian, yearbook and newspaper adviser at L’Anse Creuse HS—North, nominated Jackson.

JOHN FIELD AWARD Cheryl Pell, MIPA director, gives a hug to Warren Kent III, adviser at Mona Shores HS, after he read the letter he wrote nominating Pell for the John Field Award. Pell was Kent’s journalism teacher at Fulton HS in the early 80s.

Brian Wilson of Waterford Kettering HS looks out at the audience to his students as he holds the Golden Pen plaque he received from MIPA. Julie Price, last year’s Golden Pen recipient, presented him with the award. Wilson advises both the yearbook and newspaper at Kettering.

JEA STATE WINNER and ALL-MIPA WINNERS

Alyson Halpert, Community HS, was named the Michigan JEA High School Journalist of the Year. 4 ■ June 2009

Kelsey Ransdell, North Farmington HS, was named the All-MIPA Yearbook Award winner.

Summer Ballentine, Fenton HS, was named the All-MIPA Newspaper Award winner.

Sara Snyder, Novi HS, was named the All-MIPA Video Award winner.

Sharon Paravastu, Troy HS, was named All-MIPA Photojournalism Award winner. This was the first year for the award.

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ON-SITE CONTESTS WINNERS

First Place Student Life Photo: John-Mark Cuarto, Berrien Springs HS

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ON-SITE CONTESTS WINNERS Student Life Layout First Place Sheereen Syed & Trpko Blazevski, Stevenson HS Second Place Ashley Allison & Caitlin Juszczyk, Eisenhower HS Third Place Samantha Hough & Ashley Lapinski, Waterford Mott HS Honorable Mention Joey Huntoon & Jake Gulick, Breckenridge HS John-Mark Cuato & Sami Proud, Berrien Springs HS Taylor Zimmer & Marriah Prowoznik, Forest Hills Eastern HS

Second Place Student Life Photo: Lauren McCarthy, Forest Hills Eastern HS

Copy/Caption First Place Michael Huspen, Berrien Springs HS Second Place Samantha Butcher, Grand Blanc HS Third Place Richard Kuhn, Stevenson HS Honorable Mention Gabrielle Fantich, Orchard Lake MS Sabriye Gill, Forest Hills Eastern HS Becky Lipinski, Eisenhower HS

Carry In Photo Sports First Place Caitlin Edberg, Stevenson HS Second Place Bobby Kaxzanowski, Gull Lake HS Third Place Lindsay Noonan, Troy HS Honorable Mention Sara Moore, Utica HS Zak Drabczyk, Mona Shores MS Mackenzie Martin, Northwest HS Student Life First Place John-Mark Cuarto, Berrien Springs HS Second Place Lauren McCarthy, Forest Hills Eastern HS Third Place Kirsten Case, Breckenridge HS Honorable Mention Rachel Black, Fenton HS Garit Juhas, Breckenridge HS Jillian Fellows, Andover HS

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Third Place Student Life Photo: Kirsten Case, Breckenridge HS

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Video/Broadcast News First Place WDBC Staff, Lake Orion HS Second Place Cat’s Eye News, Novi HS Third Place DTV News, Davison HS Feature First Place Chris Windle, “GM Bailout”Davison HS Second Place Kyle McDonnell, Lake Orion HS Third Place Cam Smith, “Mr. Allen” Davison HS Honorable Mention Juan McNeely & Brittany Crowder, “Student Artist” Davison HS

Second Place SPORTS Photo: Bobby Kaxzanowski, Gull Lake HS

Video On-Site Creation First Place Mike Ryniak, Mike Roy and Sara Snyder Novi HS Second Place Jeff Hollis, Jessica Snitko and Cam Smith Davison HS Third Place Johanna Jelenek, Jake Risdale and Jade Hanson Laingsburg HS Honorable Mention Josh Kranich, Gordan Ewald and Matt Murphy, Laingsburg HS

Special Projects

THIRD Place SPORTS Photo: Lindsay Noonan, Troy HS

First Place Northern Star Staff, “Northern Star, Our Town: Detroit,” North Farmington HS Second Place Communicator Staff, “College Special Edition,” Community HS Third Place Vanguard Staff, “A Closer Look at Teenage Love” Stevenson HS Honorable Mention Maddi Ismbia, “Stationery” Orchard Lake MS Amanda West, “Valentine’s Day Insert” Utica HS Gabrielle Jaye and Luigi Pizzo, “Powder Puff Utica HS

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ON-SITE CONTESTS WINNERS, cont. News First Place Brittany Schoel, Eisenhower HS Second Place Abby Wood, Okemos HS Third Place Cathlin Sullivan, Community HS Honorable Mention Kayla Stoler, Community HS Nichole Seguin, Stevenson HS Kirsten Corneliussen, Rochester HS

Editorial First Place Hemi Gandhi & Nelson Burton, Okemos HS Second Place Tara Kerr & Adam Gasperoni Riddle, Stevenson HS Third Place Dylan Cinit & Chris Cain, Community HS Honorable Mention Brad Wallace & Vittorio Vettranio, Eisenhower HS Dayle McLeod & Taylor Delaossa, Grand Ledge HS Zen Pace & Reeve Forence, Flint Central HS

Feature Writing First Place Julia Mogerman, Community HS Second Place Tom Geddes, Rochester HS Third Place Kate Kelly, Gull Lake HS Honorable Mention Lucas Costanza, Berrien Spring HS Stephanie Sokol, Eisenhower HS Megan VanSparrentak, Stevenson HS Jordan Hubbard, Rochester HS

Honorable mention student life Photo: Jillian Fellows, Andover HS

See more photos on page 13.

Results of MIPA board Election

t the Spring Conference luncheon, MIPA members voted in officers. C.E. Sikkenga, newspaper adviser from Grand Haven HS, retained his second vice president seat. Brian Wilson, from Waterford Kettering HS was re-elected treasurer. Kim Kozian, from L’Anse Creuse HS North, was re-elected secretary. Kozian has been the board secretary since 1997. Sue Spalding, newspaper adviser from Quincy HS was re-elected to the board as trustee.

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It’s always great to get a first-place award at MIPA, as this student demonstrates. See this and more photos at the MIPA Web site.

2009 MIPA Spartan Yearbook Contest Form This contest is for MIPA members schools, and is for the 2009 yearbook. Awards will be presented at the MIPA Spring Awards and On-Site Contest Conference in April 2010. After your yearbook is evaluated, we will send you the evaluation booklet. To see a copy of the booklet, go to the MIPA Web site. If you cannot attend the Spring Conference in April 2010, you may ask to have your awards sent to you for a nominal fee.

1. Please fill out this part completely. School

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4. Advisers, please sign. Please read & sign the following: I have read this form. I understand only student work is to be judged for awards by MIPA. All materials submitted represent student work or is designated as not being student work, unless otherwise indicated. To my knowledge, no copyright violations occur and there is no plagiarism. I have read the “MIPA Policy on Copyright Violations and Plagiarism in Scholastic Media,” which is available at the MIPA Web site.: mipa.jrn.msu.edu.

Writing

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Late Spring delivery YB—Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before Aug. 15, 2009.. $85.00

Graphic Effects

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Fall delivery YB— Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before Nov. 15, 2009.................................................................................................................. $45.00

3. Important stuff! Please read!

1. Since only student photographs are considered for awards, include in the front of the book or on a separate sheet the system for which student photos are marked. For example, “Student photos are highlighted with *.” 2. Write a memo to the judge. In it list any special school situations, concerns or problems with this yearbook’s production on a separate sheet. Judges need this information. 3. Keep a copy of this form for your files. You might include a self-addressed stamped postcard that we will return to you when we get your book so that you know it arrived safely in the MIPA office.

Adviser’s signature:

5. Please check one. Spring delivery YB— Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before July 15, 2009................................................................................................................... $45.00

Late Fall delivery YB—Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before Dec. 15, 2009.................................................................................................................. $85.00

6. Would you like your book annotated? Annotation means that the judge will write comments in the yearbook itself as well as in the evaluation booklet. Price includes having your yearbook sent back to you.

Check here to have your yearbook annotated.................................................................. $40.00

7. Final check. Please mark. Yes No

4. If you want your yearbook annotated, the price includes sending the book back to you. If you do NOT want your book annotated, but want your yearbook returned, please send a postage-paid (NO STAMPS ALLOWED), self-addressed mailer with your yearbook. Your yearbook will be returned by the judge. If you do not want your yearbook back, the judge will have the option to keep it or discard it. 5. Please mail your yearbook along with your check payable to MIPA. Send to: MIPA, School of Journalism, 305 Communication Arts Bldg. Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1212

1. Did you mark student photos? 2. Did you include a check for the correct amount? 3. Are you meeting the official postmark deadline? 4. Are you meeting the late postmark deadline?

8. Payment Postmark......................................................................................................................... $45.00 Late deadline.................................................................................................................. $85.00 Annotation...................................................................................................................... $40.00 Credit card payment*........................................................................................................ $5.00 Total payment enclosed.......................................................................................$________ *Circle one: VISA MC DISC AMEX

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2009-2010 MIPA Membership Form Today’s date

Deadline: Schools must join MIPA by Jan. 31, 2010, to participate in contests for that calendar year.

School List school as you want it referred to on membership certificate and other documents.

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Get the early-bird rate. Join MIPA bY Oct. 19!

Please check the publications that are joining and include all information.

Newspaper: Name

Name of Newspaper Adviser:

E-mail (Write very clearly, please!)

Yearbook: Name

Do you want to be added to the Google group? Yes

Name of Yearbook Adviser:

E-mail (Write very clearly, please!)

Video Journalism: Name

Do you want to be added to the Google group? Yes

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*Online Journalism: Name

Do you want to be added to the Google group? Yes

Name of Online Journalism Adviser:

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Do you want to be added to the Google group? Yes

*If this is a totally separate entity from Newspaper

PAYMENT

Advisers, want to join the Journalism Education Association? Add an extra $50 per person, and we’ll send it in for you! List advisers here:

1 (one) publication or production

Other publications or productions ($10 for each beyond the first one)

$50 per adviser for JEA membership

Add $5 if this is being mailed after Oct. 19, 2009

Send this form and check made out to MIPA to:

Add $5 if using credit card*

Total enclosed

MIPA, School of Journalism 305 Communication Arts Bldg Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1212

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White &Re(A)d Summer Journalism Workshop Michigan State University Michigan Interscholastic Press Association

Aug. 2–6, 2009

It’s the best week of the summer. Don’t miss it. www.mipamsu.org President, cont. from page 2 of upcoming yearbook sales, contests could be held where the funniest tweets would end up in the yearbook, non-scientific polls could be tweeted, or calls for photo submissions could be sent out en masse. One problem that Wilson is encountering is that students have not yet fully embraced Twitter, so the crowd receiving the publication’s tweets is relatively small. Students often view it as needless, as it seems – at least on the surface – that Twitter does many of the things that Facebook already is doing. What the students are failing to realize is that the portability and immediacy of Twitter combine to make it a system with a set of applications that differ from the offerings of any other social network. Perhaps the easiest way to get students

Tell us how you’re using Twitter for your publication classes. We want to know. using Twitter is to ask them to do it. I have a set of about 25 AP Language and Composition students that have been following my Twitter feed since May. Although this means that I do need to censor my tweets to some degree, it pushes students to become early adopters, and affords me a way to get messages out to the class as they complete their summer work. Next year, the DeWitt High School newspaper will be using Twitter, and I can push those students that already follow

me to begin to follow the paper as well. Like all things technological, there is a chance that Twitter will prove to be just a fad and that it will go the way of Xanga, Friendster, and so many other social networks. Indeed Twitter’s new user growth in May was lower than it had been in any month previously. But that does not mean that the idea behind Twitter will disappear. The concept of instant updates sent directly to and from multiple devices and shareable anywhere on the globe will remain. Student publications need to be sure that they embrace this new technology, if only to be more ready to shift when the next communication revolution begins. Follow MIPA on Twitter @MIPAMSU, and check out the author @jvanhof.

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UP NORTH CONFERENCE WRAP UP MIPA held its second annual conference in Traverse City on May 14, at Northernwestern Michigan College. Kandace Chapple, founder and publisher of Grand Traverse Woman Magazine, presented the keynote. For the first year students could enter onsite contests. Results are below. Jody Mackey, adviser at Traverse City East Middle School, helped to organize the event.

Yearbook Student Life Design First Place Cassie Hutchinson Traverse City West HS Second Place Amanda Burns & Mckenna Cartwright Traverse City East MS Third Place Bryan Alger & Brittany Parliament Bellaire HS

Everyone received copies of Grand Traverse Woman Magazine and held them up on command.

Yearbook Sports Design First Place Morgan Sayan Traverse City West HS Second Place Maddy Duensing, Teagan Knowles & Katie Raymond Traverse City East MS Third Place Katelyn Fifelski & Amber Marshall Bellaire HS

Yearbook Photo First Place Bryan Alger Bellaire HS Second Place Stefani Harlan Elk Rapids HS Third Place Kara Pohlman Traverse City West HS

Kandace Chapple shared how valuable her high school journalism classes turned out to be when she decided to start her own magazine.

Newspaper Feature Story

A student asks a thoughtful question during the keynote session. After the keynote session students had a chance to attend three more sessions.

First Place Andrew Boyer East Jordan HS

Newspaper Photo First Place Andrew Boyer East Jordan HS

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One lucky student won a full scholarship to the MIPA Summer Journalism Workshop. Director Betsy Rau presents Katie Lash of Bellaire HS with her winning certificate.

MIPA up north

For more photos from the Up North conference, see the MIPA Web site.

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