There are a variety of workshops throughout the country (and one where you travel outside the U.S.) for advisers and students. Quite a few have classes or tracks on convergence or digital media. Let us know if you would like to have yours included.

Digital Media workshops for students:

• Ball Sate University (Muncie, Indiana)
  Award-winning journalism advisers from across the nation instruct students in more than a dozen reporting, writing, editing and visual communication courses, giving your students the skills they need to excel. Digital Media offerings include:
  
  Online Journalism
  * Target Audience
  * Writing for Online vs. Print
  * Color, Typography, Modular Design
  * Structure and Organization
  * Blogs
  * Podcasting
  * Links
  * Content Management Systems and Making Regular Updates
  
  Television Journalism
  * Reporting
  * Researching
  * Interviewing
  * Broadcast Writing & Conventions
  * Story Selection & Newscast Lineup
  * Producing
  * Video Shooting & Editing
  * Anchoring
  
  This year, we’re offering three student workshops:
  Five-Day Student Workshop: July 25 -29
  On The Ball Staff Workshop: July 30-Aug.1
  Daily News Experience: July 25-29, application due by June 1.
  
  For more information about our programs, visit www.bsujournalismworkshops.com!

• Cal State Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
  
  WEB Journalism, $350: Delegates work in a computer lab and learn podcasting, slideshows, and video production, to begin integrating those features into their own web publications. They produce the web newspaper which goes online Friday. The workshop is Aug. 9-13. CHECK: www.newspapers2.com. You may  get more information from Konnie Krislock, co-director. Konnie is at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or at (714) 307-2328.
  
  
• Columbia Scholastic Press Association (Columbia University, New York)
  
  Columbia adds digital classes to 2010 Summer Journalism Workshop
  
  Perhaps you are a student or adviser working with a traditional print newspaper and you want to get more from your work than you do now.  Or you want to learn how to take your paper from print to online. Or you wish to improve your reporting or writing skills, no matter where you are published. Photographers, designers, editors---all are welcome at the CSPA’s 29th Annual Summer Journalism Workshop at Columbia University in New York City. Whatever your need for student news reporting and publishing, we’ve got you covered!
  
  From June 20-25, 2010 you will have five days jam-packed with hours of instruction, practice and fun with several hundred others just like yourself.
  
  In addition to our popular digital photography sequence (especially good for photo editors), two new class sequences will cover digital bootcamp experiences for students and advisers.  The bootcamp sequences cover what you need to know to go digital, if you are a student, and what you want to teach, if you are an adviser. Find out details here.
  
  In order to provide space for the new digital sessions, the CSPA has discontinued the yearbook sequences offered in prior years. All of our recent newspaper sequences will continue, as will individual oral critiques for both print and digital news efforts. 
  
  Please feel free to ask any question of Ed Sullivan directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .


• Iowa Summer Journalism Workshops (Iowa City, Iowa)
  
  Broadcast:
  What you see on TV and hear on the radio is but a finished product. What goes into the making of TV and radio broadcasts?
  
  From brainstorming ideas, to script writing, to framing your shot, to on-air presence, broadcast journalism is an intricate dance of technological and journalistic skill.
  
  Using the state-of-the-art broadcast facilities of Daily Iowa TV, workshop students will produce broadcast pieces and leave Iowa City with a new understanding of broadcast journalism, not to mention broadcast clips to add to their portfolio. Space is limited.
  
  Web Design Basics:
  Learn basic HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash and other online necessities to turn your high school publication into a 21st century tour de force.
  
  Ten years ago newspaper and magazine editors worried what online journalism would do to print publications. Well, the future has arrived. Will you be a part of it?
  
  This workshop caters to journalism students with the foresight to learn online technology.
  
  
• JEANC (Reno, Nevada)
  
  Multimedia | Photography | Web | Writing | Advising
  
  Looking for a great summer workshop to focus on convergence journalism and meet all of your needs in a state-of-the-art facility? The Journalism Education Association of Northern California (JEANC) invites you to join us June 27-30 at University of Nevada-Reno for "digital RENOvation." This new workshop at the Reynolds School of Journalism on the UNR campus will have both student and adviser strands in digital media to give you training and tools for 2010 and beyond. Our staff includes award-winning NorCal advisers ready to provide solid journalism instruction combined with technology training in a hands-on environment.
  
  WHAT: digital RENOvation
  WHEN: June 27-30, 2010
  WHERE: University of Nevada-Reno
  HOW: on-campus housing or commuter option
  
  INFO: www.jeanc.org
  
  
• KJI (Lawrence, Kansas)
  
  The Kansas Journalism Institute at the University of Kansas is one of the earlier "summer camps." KJI convenes June 13-17, 2010, and this will be our 47th year teaching student journalists from around the country.
  
  There are a variety of courses offered, including a Multimedia Web Projects Seminar.
  
  You can download registration forms and scholarship applications on the site.
  
  And, of course, you may call or e-mail me ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) to find out more.


• This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - Flint Hills Publications Workshop (Manhattan, Kansas)
  
  Everything you and your students need to know to make your student media better is all here at the Flint Hills Publications Workshop July 18-22.
  
  Students stay in the Holiday Inn at the Campus, have classes in the Student Union and Kedzie Hall while learning from some of the nation's best journalism educators and getting hands-on experience producing items such as: a DVD, a Web site, a documentary and broadcast. The curriculum, like the media produced, is as converged as you want to make it. Whether you're looking for the basics in solid reporting and design concepts or you want cutting-edge convergence, It's ALL Here.
  
  One section Diversity Discovery scholarships 10-12 underserved middle school students.
  
  For more information visit royalpurple.ksu.edu or www.kstatecollegian.com or contact Linda S. Puntney, 785.532.7822 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
  
• Michigan State Univeristy - MIPA (East Lansing, Michigan)
  
  What better place for a J-cation than the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan? Students who attend this workshop from August 1-5 will pay under $400 for room, board, a cool t-shirt and instruction from some of the nation's best instructors.
  
  We're ordering up the smores, burgers and baked beans as part of the three meal per day plan, and offer classes in new media, broadcast and more. A complete brochure will be up in early March, but if you want details NOW, contact Cheryl Pell ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Betsy Rau ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
  
  
• Missouri, University of (Columbia, Missouri)
  
  Courses are conducted in the newly-constructed world class RJI Futures Lab and meeting rooms, an environment where workshop participants and advisors examine innovations for delivery to media audiences and experiment with the use of emerging technologies in journalism. The workshop staff consists of nationally and internationally recognized professional journalists, MU School of Journalism professors, and top-ranked advisors from around the country.
  
  More information can be found at http://muconf.missouri.edu/smw/
  
  
• National Scholastic Press Association (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
  
  Spend three days with us this summer, and you’ll be ready to start the year!
  National Scholastic Press Association // Summer Journalism Workshops
  July 15-17, 2010 // University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  
  Journalism is changing, and successful students and advisers know the value of attending a summer workshop designed to train, motivate and inspire for the challenges of what comes next. Producing quality publications means staying ahead of the curve and on top of new skills. Join us in Minneapolis this summer for intense journalism and learn to produce content under pressure!
  
  We’ve modified our past schedule with the economy in mind and have packed more into each day. You save money by making fewer trips to campus, fewer parking fees, less time off of work and away from family, and fewer nights in the dorms.
  
  Workshops include:
  Photojournalism and Multimedia — Capture stunning images then package them with multimedia.
  
  Sign up 5 or 10 students by June 11 for special reduced rates. Scholarships available exclusively to NSPA members. Registration form available later this spring.
  http://studentpress.org/nspa
  
  
• Southern Interscholastic Press Association (Columbia, South Carolina)
  
  The Southern Interscholastic Press Association’s summer workshop – the Carolina Journalism Institute – is June 9-13 on the campus of the University of South Carolina.
  
  A variety of classes will be offered, including the following in Digital Media:
  
  VIDEO JOURNALISM (BEGINNING BROADCAST)
  This class is designed for students and advisers who have little or no experience in broadcasting. In this class participants will learn how to produce stories for the visual electronic medium. They will learn to interview, write scripts for the ear, pitch stories to a news director, shoot stories and edit them for airing.  Class members will produce Inside CJI, a show that will air at the awards breakfast Sunday morning. ($25 lab fee)
  
  MEDIA FUSION
  Today’s scholastic journalists – whether they find themselves on a newspaper, yearbook or broadcast staff – have to be able to tell stories, and they have to learn how to tell them using a combination of words, sounds, photographs, video, art and design. Class participants will learn storytelling in a variety of formats for all media. They will learn how to create and maintain a basic Web site and how to write for the Web. They will practice digital storytelling by creating slideshows. They will also learn the fundamentals of shooting and editing video. The course will be especially helpful for staff members and advisers who have taken, or who want to take, their print media online. ($25 lab fee)
  
  REGISTRATION
  Student and adviser earlybird registration (April 30) = $225.
  Some classes have $25 lab fees
  HOUSING
  Housing for students (quad occupancy) = $110.
  Advisers’ housing from $110 (quad) to $425 (single)
  
  Meals are not included, (except Sunday brunch) but rooms have a refrigerator, a special breakfast rate will be offered by hotel and there are numerous eateries within walking distance from the hotel and classrooms.
  
  To request a brochure, contact Karen Flowers, – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
  The workshop Web site:
  http://www.sc.edu/cmcis/so/cji/index.html
  
  
• Virginia Tech - jCamp (Blacksburg, Virginia)
  
  Join us on the beautiful campus of Virginia Tech in Southwest, Virginia for jCamp 2010, July 18-22. Students and advisers are welcome from all states!!!
  
  We will offer primary tracks which will include:
  Online Journalism
  
  During the evening sessions, students and advisers can get a heavy taste of material in a secondary track.  These secondary tracks will include:
  Technology
  
  Cost: $400 if postmarked by April 15
  $475 if postmarked April 16-June 1
  
  For more information and a registration form, check out the website at
  http://www.collegemedia.com/jcamp or email Valerie Kibler offlist at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Digital Media workshops for advisers:

• ATPI (Commerce, Texas)
  
  The Association of Texas Photography Instructors hosts the 16th annual Summer Workshop for Instructors Only July 14 - 17 in Commerce, TX. This workshop provides teachers with an intense but casual learning experience with other educators in all areas of photography and media. The workshop will offer four sequences for teachers to select from including the following digital media strands:
  
  Digital Video - Macintosh? Windows? It doesn't matter in this class since you can learn on either system, using anything from IMovie to Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere. Teachers will work on their storytelling skills while they are developing ideas for teaching it to their students. This sequence will be taught by Dusty Parrish from Allen HS (Allen, TX) and Roger Hein from Sam Houston HS (Arlington, TX).
  Visual Communication - It isn't just about still photography anymore. In today's world we need images, we need sound, we need them combined together. That's what this class is all about. Working with Soundslides software to build their projects, teachers will learn to tell stories with their images while also capturing and editing sound. You can check out some of last year's projects at http://www.atpi.org/summer_work.htm. Working with this class will be John Knaur from Olympus, David Harp, an Olympus Visionary and former president of ASMP, and Jake Palenske, CEO of NCompassMedia.
  You'll have an amazing time at the workshop. You'll eat more candy than you ever thought possible. You'll experience small-town Texas life for a couple of days. You'll go back to school excited about applying the things you've learned. And you'll make new friends. Come join us at ATPI.
  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you have questions or want to be on the mailing list when we send out the registration brochure.
• Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana)
  
  Going Online? The Ball State University Journalism Workshops now offers two opportunities to move your publication online, and one of them won't cost you a dime.
  
  Through a generous grant from The McCormick Foundation, Ball State is offering a free, three-day weekend workshop June 18-20 on Ball State's campus to help you move your publication online. Advisers attending this free "Start Your Upload" workshop will walk away from the class having set up a free basic publications Web site. All advisers are welcome to apply online by May 21.
  
  Visit http://bsujournalismworkshops.com/pages/2009/12/09/going-online/ for more information or to apply!
  
  Visit www.highschoolmedia.org to check out Web sites created by last year's attendees!
  
  Can't make our free workshop? We're also holding two "Build a Web site" adviser workshops June 18-21 and June 25-27, 2010. The non-credit workshop fee is just $325 and attendees will leave our campus with a basic publications Web site ready for students to begin using.
  
  For more information on this workshop and our other Summer advising classes, visit http://bsujournalismworkshops.com/pages/2009/12/09/adviser-workshops/
  
  
• Cal State Long Beach (Long Beach, California)
  
  WEB Journalism, $350: Delegates work in a computer lab and learn podcasting, slideshows, and video production, to begin integrating those features into their own web publications. They produce the web newspaper which goes online Friday. The workshop is Aug. 9-13. This is a workshop for students but advisers may take this WEB design class if they are not interested in the advisers' session. CHECK: www.newspapers2.com. You may  get more information from Konnie Krislock, co-director.
  
  Konnie is at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or at (714) 307-2328.
  
  
• Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado)
  
  The Colorado High School Press Association is hosting its annual Summer Adviser Workshop at Colorado State University (Go Rams!) in beautiful For Collins, Colorado, July 7-9.
  
  One or two hours of continuing education credit is available through the university and tuition is the same for in-state or out of state students.
  
  Are you new at advising? Check out our "Adviser Survival" strand. Been walking this crazy road for a few years? Check out our courses under "Adviser Revival." (There is digital media instruction in the "Adviser Revival" strand)
  
  Here's our brochure: http://www.chspaonline.org/pdfs/10_SAW_brochure.pdf
  
  And, check out our website: http://www.chspaonline.org/
  
  
• Columbia Scholastic Press Association (Columbia University, New York)
  
  Columbia adds digital classes to 2010 Summer Journalism Workshop
  
  Perhaps you are a student or adviser working with a traditional print newspaper and you want to get more from your work than you do now.  Or you want to learn how to take your paper from print to online. Or you wish to improve your reporting or writing skills, no matter where you are published. Photographers, designers, editors---all are welcome at the CSPA’s 29th Annual Summer Journalism Workshop at Columbia University in New York City. Whatever your need for student news reporting and publishing, we’ve got you covered!
  
  From June 20-25, 2010 you will have five days jam-packed with hours of instruction, practice and fun with several hundred others just like yourself.
  
  In addition to our popular digital photography sequence (especially good for photo editors), two new class sequences will cover digital bootcamp experiences for students and advisers.  The bootcamp sequences cover what you need to know to go digital, if you are a student, and what you want to teach, if you are an adviser. Find out details here.
  
  In order to provide space for the new digital sessions, the CSPA has discontinued the yearbook sequences offered in prior years. All of our recent newspaper sequences will continue, as will individual oral critiques for both print and digital news efforts. 
  
  Please feel free to ask any question of Ed Sullivan directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  
  
• Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
  
  Another summer digital media course is Multimedia for High School Journalism Educators, a one-week course that Judy Robinson and I are teaching at the High School Journalism Institute at Indiana University, June 21-25. Advisers can learn and practice technology skills that can be incorporated into journalism and media production classes. The course will include:
  
  * Recording and editing digital audio and planning and shooting digital photos to be combined to create multimedia for the Web.
  * Using social software, such as blogs, wikis and Flickr.
  * Learning to use cloud applications for file sharing and photo editing.
  http://journalism.indiana.edu/programs/hsji/teacher-info/
  
  
  
• Iowa Summer Journalism Workshops (Iowa City, Iowa)
  
  Digital Media Production for High School Media Advisers
  Content management systems. Photos. Slideshows. Videos. Podcasts. Polls. News feeds. Hyperlinks. Alternative advertising. Discussion boards. Reader feedback. Catalogued information. Sortable lists. Non-traditional stories.
  
  Using lessons expressly designed for high school curriculum, learn to navigate the world of online journalism by bringing your publication online and maximizing your opportunities. 
  
  Learn the techniques of modern and forward-thinking journalism by teaching your students true journalism as it is practiced today -- without sacrificing journalism's basic tenents: ethics, social responsibility and accuracy.
  
  When: July 19-23
  On-campus or online? On-campus
  Instructor: Aaron Manfull, Francis Howell North HS, St. Charles, Mo.
  Available credit hours: 2-3
  
  
• JEANC (Reno, Nevada)
  
  Multimedia | Photography | Web | Writing | Advising
  
  Looking for a great summer workshop to focus on convergence journalism and meet all of your needs in a state-of-the-art facility? The Journalism Education Association of Northern California (JEANC) invites you to join us June 27-30 at University of Nevada-Reno for "digital RENOvation." This new workshop at the Reynolds School of Journalism on the UNR campus will have both student and adviser strands in digital media to give you training and tools for 2010 and beyond. Our staff includes award-winning NorCal advisers ready to provide solid journalism instruction combined with technology training in a hands-on environment.
  
  WHAT: digital RENOvation
  WHEN: June 27-30, 2010
  WHERE: University of Nevada-Reno
  HOW: on-campus housing or commuter option
  
  INFO: www.jeanc.org
  
  
• Kent State University (Web-based Online)
  
  If you’ve been thinking about taking Web-based training or even getting an entire master’s degree online, this summer may be a good time to test the waters...because the “beach” is as close as your home computer.
  
  Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication is offering graduate-credit workshops available to guest students OR to those in the 36-credit online master’s degree program. They will be offering 3 courses this summer. Included in what they are offering:
  
  • Teaching Dreamweaver (2 credits) will run July 12 – Aug. 6. With more and more student media going online, it’s time to get the background you need to feel confident about such digital technology. This course, too, gives you material to take right to the classroom.
  
  • Teaching Photoshop (2 credits) will run June 14 – July 9. You’ll learn the basics of the program, but, more important, you’ll find ways to present these to your students, too. You’ll gain tips you can take into the classroom immediately.
  
  Don’t live in Ohio? That’s not a problem because our out-of-state online students receive tuition waivers that bring the per-credit cost down to what our in-state students pay — approximately $422 per credit hour.  And even though your instructors may be far away, they are experienced in teaching such courses and respond rapidly to your questions and needs.
  
  If you want more information, you can check the Web site and brochure at <http://new.jmc.kent.edu/csj/Programs/onlinemasters.html>
  
  Or you can e-mail Center for Scholastic Journalism director Candace Perkins Bowen at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text92878 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //--> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
  
  
• Missouri, University of (Columbia, Missouri)
  
  Courses are conducted in the newly-constructed world class RJI Futures Lab and meeting rooms, an environment where workshop participants and advisors examine innovations for delivery to media audiences and experiment with the use of emerging technologies in journalism.
  
  Advisors can enroll in either a one or a three-credit hour scholastic publications class for graduate credit. Advisers could also enroll in the student digital media class if they didn't want to take the adviser section. Last year there were four advisers and 12 students in that class.
  
  More information can be found at http://muconf.missouri.edu/smw/
  
  
• Poynter Institute (St. Petersburg, Florida)
  
  Join Jim Streisel, adviser of a 2009 online high school Pacemaker winner, and Poynter faculty member Wendy Wallace in this intensive (and fun!) weekend that will help you take your student journalism online.
  
  Course dates: June 25-27, 2010, Friday evening through Sunday afternoon
  Location: The Poynter Institute, 801 Third Street S, St. Petersburg, Fla.
  
  Tuition is free, thanks to a grant from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.  Participants are responsible for travel to Tampa/St. Petersburg and lodging. (Travel subsidies are available.)
  
  Click here to apply. We will have a rolling acceptance policy and attempt to notify applicants within three weeks whether you are accepted so that you can make your summer plans.
  
  Curriculum will include how to create and maintain a basic Website using WordPress or similar software, as well as:
  o fundamentals of video/audio
  o how to create an audio slideshow
  o digital storytelling
  o writing for the Web
  o options for organizing your staff
  o how journalists use Twitter and other social media.
  
  Priority will be given to applicants with at least three years of teaching experience and to advisers:
  * from diverse backgrounds or from schools with an ethnically diverse student body
  * from schools with 25% or more students on free or reduced-rate lunch
  * seeking to reinvent or reinvigorate a journalism program
  * seeking to build journalism academies or specialty programs
  * with strong print programs who want to migrate to digital technologies.
  
  Enrollment will be limited to 22 advisers.
  
  Over two days, participants will experience the hands-on training that is Poynter’s trademark. Participants may bring digital stories and photos from their schools to incorporate in the beginnings of a site that they can expand with their students when they get home.
  
  The format and content are based on a similar workshop the NAA Foundation funded in 2009 at Ball State University. Christie Gold, adviser at Freedom High in Tampa, took what she learned at that workshop and helped her students take the Revolution newspaper online.
  
  "In 18 years of teaching I have never worked so hard but gained so much from a workshop," Gold said.  "It energized me for the coming year."
  
  Advisers will leave with basic skills in reporting, writing and editing for online and with the confidence and knowledge to involve their students in taking their journalism to the Web. They will have created the beginning of a Website and populated it with enough content to get their students excited about the possibilities.
  
  Lead teacher for the course will be Jim Streisel, adviser of print and online publications at Carmel (Ind.) High School.  The HiLite won a 2009 Online Pacemaker from the National Scholastic Press Association. Streisel is the author of High School Journalism: A Practical Guide.
  
  News University, the e-learning division at Poynter, will share some of the workshop lessons through Webinars and live chats when school resumes in the fall. Watch for details at www.newsu.org.
  
  The Poynter Institute is a non-profit school devoted to promoting excellence in journalism. It serves journalists, media leaders, students, educators and citizens in the interest of democracy. Many consider Poynter the nation's leading source of journalism training, supporting people producing journalism in all its forms – print, broadcast and online – to help them serve their communities.
  
  The Poynter Institute (take a virtual tour) owns a modern, airy building of computer labs and teaching spaces. Seminar participants use MacIntosh iMac computers loaded with the latest software. Classrooms offer wireless internet access and full projection and multimedia capabilities. A library on the premises includes more than 10,000 books, videos, journals, reports, magazines and newspapers.
  
  Details:  www.poynter.org/adviserworkshop
  
  
• Southern Interscholastic Press Association (Columbia, South Carolina)
  
  The Southern Interscholastic Press Association’s summer workshop – the Carolina Journalism Institute – is June 9-13 on the campus of the University of South Carolina.
  
  The adviser class will include some work with digital media.
  
  ADVISERS
  Designed for advisers at all stages of their publication advising career  – beginning to veteran – this class is a must for a scholastic journalism teacher. The beauty of the class is advisers with no or little experience learn from others who have been in the journalism classroom longer and the veterans reconnect and are re-energized by those with less experience. Basics of advertising and business, design, interviewing, writing and editing are combined with staff motivation, team building and grading as well as some work with multi-media. Advisers leave CJI with a new network and support system – the CJI instructor and all the class participants.
  
  REGISTRATION
  Student and adviser earlybird registration (April 30) = $225.
  Some classes have $25 lab fees
  HOUSING
  Housing for students (quad occupancy) = $110.
  Advisers’ housing from $110 (quad) to $425 (single)
  
  Meals are not included, (except Sunday brunch) but rooms have a refrigerator, a special breakfast rate will be offered by hotel and there are numerous eateries within walking distance from the hotel and classrooms.
  
  To request a brochure, contact Karen Flowers, – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  
  The workshop Web site:
  http://www.sc.edu/cmcis/so/cji/index.html