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J-Ideas launches beta version of iTunesU First Amendment course
Course contains video interviews with First Amendment experts such as Mary Beth Tinker
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>> By clicking here, you can launch this course within iTunes
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>>NEW: Take the NewsU/J-Ideas First Amendment in Schools course |
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J-IDEAS was developed at Ball State University to develop and encourage excellence in high school journalism through on-site activities, tailored programs, distance learning and digital activities and scholarship. Our goal is to foster First Amendment and civic awareness in our public and |
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private schools, and to bring teachers, students, principals and professional editors together to develop the best and brightest young talent for the journalism profession. |
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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s High |
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| School Initiative seeks to encourage students to use the news media, including student journalism, and to better understand and appreciate the First Amendment. As part of the initiative, the foundation funded this “Future of the First Amendment’’ research project, focusing on the knowledge and attitudes of high school students, teachers and administrators. Specifically, the study seeks to determine whether relationships exist – and, if so, the nature of those relationships – between what teachers and administrators think, and what students do in their classrooms and with news media, and what they know about the First Amendment. |
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Teachfirstamendment.org is a Web site created |
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| by the Knight Foundation to help teachers educate students on the First Amendment. The Web site consists of four sections. “Teach the First Amendment” features links to lesson plans, DVDs, and other web content. “Start Student Media and Protect Student Journalists” features information from various organizations on how to start up student media in schools. “Get Civics Back in Schools” features links to organizations that can help schools create better, more informed citizens. “Take the First Amendment Quiz” offers an online quiz and additional First Amendment links. |
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J-IDEAS offers a variety of products for students, teachers, principals, and |
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anyone interested in the First Amendment, civics, and journalism. Anchoring the J-IDEAS product line is our teaching DVDs—including a teaching DVD on the First Amendment, a First Amendment DVD for principals and administrators, and a DVD on business practices of scholastic journalism. In addition, J-IDEAS offers DVDs on business reporting and sports writing. Other J-IDEAS products, including a book on student expression in a digital age and a documentary by student filmmaker Alex Capogna are also available. |
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J-IDEAS hosts a variety of meetings several times a year. Learn about J-IDEAS events, and other conferences in education and journalism, in our calendar. |
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First Amendment rights for students in the information |
| age continue to be analyzed and debated. In this section, J-IDEAS presents information from a conference held in partnership with the McCormick Tribune Foundation, including links and information on how to acquire a book produced from presentations at the conference. J-IDEAS also has model policies on digital expression that schools can adopt. |
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In its mission to encourage First |
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| Amendment freedoms in schools, J-IDEAS has developed multiple projects in this regard to assist principals and administrators in creating schools that value the First Amendment and a free student media. This section of jideas.org includes information on the Principals Coalition for the First Amendment, information on an online course for principals and administrators on the First Amendment, and order forms for Quill and Scroll’s “Principal’s Guide to Scholastic Journalism” book and J-IDEAS’ “First Amendment Guide for Principals and Administrators” DVD. |
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At J-IDEAS, we work in public policy to help students become better citizens through First |
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| Amendment awareness. J-IDEAS creates coalitions of civics leaders, principals, administrators, teachers, journalists and others. J-IDEAS also helps creates discussion across the country for student expression bills. Among other items, this section of jideas.org includes information on the J-IDEAS Public Policy Alliance, student expression laws, national journalism stories, and features about topics and people relevant to public policy. |
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As part of J-IDEAS’ mission, the |
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| organization hosts, and attends, a variety of conferences and meetings. At these events, J-IDEAS staff members often sit down with friends of the First Amendment before a camera. This page contains video interviews with journalists, students, civic leaders, and more. This page links to videos at firstamendmentfuture.org and rtndf.org. |
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