MURFREESBORO — The Center for Innovation in Media in MTSU’s College of Mass
Communication is welcoming high-school journalists to the inaugural “Innovation
J-Camp” July 13-17 on campus.
The weeklong workshop will guide students
who’ve completed the ninth grade to become digital storytellers who can produce
content for video, Web, mobile, social media and print audiences.
They’ll learn about news basics and new
media platforms each day, then tackle hands-on assignments in the field with
camp instructors. By week’s end, each camper will post video, photo and written
stories on a special website they’ll build and manage to showcase their
multimedia project.
Camp sponsor Canon USA is providing
participants with new digital video cameras to use on campus for their
projects.
The cost of the five-day camp is $150
person, which covers all materials, equipment, lunches and snacks. The Center
for Innovation in Media is located inside the Bragg Mass Communication Building
on campus; a searchable
campus map of MTSU, complete with parking details, is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
The center, also known as the CIM, opened in
2012 and combines
the newsrooms for Sidelines, MTSU’s student newspaper; WMTS-FM, the student
radio station; Match Records, the student record label; MTTV, the
student-operated cable television station; and WMOT-FM, MTSU’s 100,000-watt National
Public Radio affiliate.
The CIM was developed via $700,000 in
federal stimulus funds and enables students from all media disciplines to hone
their skills under the same roof in a state-of-the-art facility. CIM Director
Val Hoeppner will serve as lead instructor for Innovation J-Camp, accompanied by
journalist-in-residence Whitney Matheson and mass communications dean Ken
Paulson.
For
information about the inaugural Innovation J-Camp, visit http://innovationjcamp.org or contact Hoeppner at val.hoeppner@MTSU.edu. For more
information about MTSU’s College of Mass Communication, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/masscomm.
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