Journalism Tips and Lesson Plans
Team Building
- Let the Games Begin!
- Start Your Semester with Individual and Team Reflection
- Halloween and Justin Timberlake!
- Three Hours Recharges Your Program
- 4 days led to 50 minutes of WOW
Social Media
Broadcast
- Building a Broadcast Studio
- Broadcast on a Budget
- Tips to Assess Your Broadcast Students
- May I Please Have a Drone?
- I got a drone, now what?
- Creating a Deeper Understanding of the First Amendment With a PSA Contest
Yearbook
- Life Lessons Thanks to Yearbook
- Transforming to a Coach When Teaching Photography
- Why We Did Not Start Designing the Yearbook Until December
- Service Points in Yearbook Generate Motivation
General Reporting
- What’s the Big Deal About Attribution? Includes a Kahoot! and other activities for students
- Advice for Students
- Where On Earth Are Story Ideas? Tips and Tricks for Finding Story Ideas With a BONUS Review Worksheet
- Headline Writing Making Headlines
- Making Time for Long-Form Journalism
- Inverted Pyramid Lesson What Goes Around Comes Around – The Inverted Pyramid’s Popularity Soars in a Digital Age
- Making StratComm a Major Component
- Tips for Reporting on the Legalization of Marijuana
- Build Journalism Skills and Confidence on the Road
- Pets of the Pandemic: How a COVID Chronicles Column Took Off at Wantagh High School
Website
Photography
- Teaching Photography: Handouts and Video Links
- A Lesson in Bokeh
- Photographing Fires in Manual Mode
- Aperture Basics (DSLR Tutorial)
- Shutter Speed Basics (DSLR Tutorial)
Staff Organization and Adviser Assistance
- Using Google Classroom and Team Drives to Organize Your Program
- Tasks for a Journalism Teaching Assistant: FERPA Style
- Five Journalism Advisers Share Tips for Teaching During COVID-19
- Joining Organizations Provides Many Benefits
- Look in the Media Mirror With Your Students
- Separating Work and Home
- Build Journalism Skills and Confidence on the Road
eLearning
- eLearning: Lessons Learned and Lessons Shared
- Tips for Journalism Programs Challenged to Implement eLearning Format
- Five Journalism Advisers Share Tips for Teaching During COVID-19
Below, you will find ASNE lesson plans created prior to 2016:
Journalism Fundamentals Lessons
Getting Started Lessons
Specialized Writing Lessons
- Feature Writing
- Editorial, Column and Review Writing
- Sports Reporting and Writing
- Broadcast News Writing
Multimedia Lessons
- Photography and Cutlines
- Videography and Capturing Audio
- Broadcast News Producing
- Multimedia and Managing Websites
Social Media Lessons
Design & Data Journalism Lessons
Organizing Staff