Storychaser Student Clubs
Resources
Use these resources to help your own students constructively share local news online, whether they a part of a formal “Storychasers Student Club” or not. If you’re interested in possibly forming a Storychasers School Club, please join our mailing list. We piloted a Storychaser School Club in Yukon Public Schools in 2012-2013 and want to empower you to create a similar club at your school!
Draft “Storychaser Student Club Guidelines” are available.
- Image Resources
- Audio & Music Resources
- Copyright & Fair Use
- Software
- Planning Guide for Radio WillowWeb (PDF by Tony Vincent)
- Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing (PDF by Wesley Fryer)
- Teaching Kids News
Background
In Spring 2012, Storychasers is piloting an idea which has been germinating for several years: Empowering educators and students to create school-based “Storychaser Clubs” in which students act as journalists and reporters safely sharing community news online. Storychasers use digital text, images, audio and video to share local news and develop a wide range of literacy skills in the process. See these posts from 2008 (1 – 2 – 3 – 4) for the some of the history.
Storychasers is looking for similar groups which can serve as models for the guidelines we use for our official school clubs. We’re also looking for existing student clubs / organizations which are demonstrating ‘best practices’ for a school journalism / news club or class. Here are some of the models we’ve found so far. If you know of others, please let us know with a comment.
Organizations with Guidelines We Could Remix
K-12 Student News / Journalism Clubs Demonstrating Best Practices
- JBlog (Judson ISD, San Antonio, TX via @NotJANEtweets)
- Casady Crier (Casady School, Oklahoma City, OK @casadycrier)
- Cougar News (Cactus Canyon JHS, Apache Junction, AZ by @onedavis22)
- El Diamante High School’s Television program (Visalia, CA)
- Portable Radio/TV (Mr. Toft’s Grade 4/5 class in Berrigan Elementary School in Ottawa, Canada)
- CLE Live (Howe, Oklahoma)
- KBOB Studios (Timnath, Colorado)
- Clipper TV (Yarmouth, Maine)
- Radio WillowWeb (Omaha, Nebraska)
- High School Broadcast Journalism Project (HSJB)
- Streetside Stories (San Francisco, CA)
Student News Mobile Apps
Other News / Journalism / Media Examples and Resources
- Student Reporting Labs (from PBS)
- The Franklin (student news produced at Franklin College)
- Newsy
- Kean University Student Voices on Kean XChange
- CNN iReporter
- News Literacy and the Basics of Journalism: Be Fair, Accurate and Clear (Sept 2010 blog post)
- Hearing Student Voices (10 min Video from via Renee Webster with the National Writing Project about how digital audio recorders can be used transformatively for student literacy development)
http://www.thefranklinonline.com/ TheFranklinOnline.com has been functional since April 2008 and is updated by journalism students at Franklin College. It is the website associated with The Franklin, the Franklin College student newspaper. Every story that runs in our newspaper will also be run on this site. Stories will be updated to the site shortly after they occur. Events can vary from a guest speaker on campus to a women’s basketball game. We encourage readers to comment on stories and engage in intelligent conversation. The content is provided by students and the site is updated by students also.
http://www.bethkeelementary.com/kbob-studios.html over 380 podcasts published to iTunes.
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