The College Educator Seminar Series

Consider adding these two days of training after Teachapalooza. Canon will provide state-of-the-art video and DSLR cameras that you can use or you can bring your own camera gear. We will use Adobe Premiere video editing software.

Even if you have never shot or edited a frame of video, we will get you started shooting and cutting. You’ll learn the essential skills of lighting, motion, sequencing and sound in this hands-on video workshop.

We will be short on lecture and long on actual hands-on work.

Do you struggle with the best way to cover breaking news in multiple formats, or enhance your major projects? As newsrooms have changed and evolved the last few years, the emphasis on multimedia has been lost at the very time when audience demand for audio, video, maps and animation has never been higher. If you’re ready to retool your newsroom and dive in to covering spot news and augmenting projects with multimedia, we can help.

Resources are scarce, but that doesn’t mean you can’t create great multimedia elements that inform, delight and engage your audience.

Some limited, partial scholarships are available to those in need.

As your newsroom looks to be smarter and faster, you need to find ways to gather and deliver news where your audience lives — on mobile devices. So what does a mobile first newsroom look like? When the big stories break, do you have a plan to use text alerts, Twitter accounts and hashtags, Instagram and other strategies to get the news out? We’ll talk about what tools you can use, and why. What do you need to create?

Managers, which of these skills do you need to improve?

• Editing on deadline
• Juggling responsibilities
• Delivering bad news
• Offering feedback that improves performance
• Publishing to multiple platforms
• Using social media
• Helping the staff embrace change
• Finding good story ideas
• Resolving conflict

If you selected any — or all— of the skills on this list, Poynter can help you.

To figure out where media is heading, we need to push the conversation beyond the traditional ideas we hear every day in the social media echo chamber. We need to connect the dots between the present and the future of media.

During this interactive one-day TEDx event, we will tap into the minds of influential thought leaders from the broadest sections of the media industry.

What makes this day unique is the variety of speakers at the intersection of technology and media — and the access that participants will have to these folks.

Building a great, useful news app takes an intimidating number of skills, as you work with data, tools and design. This seminar will demystify the process and help those interested in getting started understand how to: find a story inside the data, use tools to create useful interactives, and understand design principles that help maps and numbers make sense.

Journalists will learn how to find stories — and tell stories — hiding inside a data dump. You’ll get hands-on experience with basic tools for news apps that take some good thinking, don’t take serious programming skills.