J-IDEAS Products:

Curriculum DVDs – J-IDEAS, a scholastic journalism and First Amendment resource, is proud to provide a selection of teaching DVDs prepared for classroom use for $10.00 each, effective Sept. 1, 2008. The DVDs cover topics dealing with the First Amendment, business reporting, sports journalism, high school publications and principal and administrator issues. Thanks to the generosity of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Ball State University, shipping costs are added to the total price of DVD orders.

• Our Living History: A Celebration of our Constitution – This Silver Telly award-winning teaching DVD about the First Amendment is available to anyone interested in promoting education about the Constitution. It is a perfect curriculum tool for Constitution Day teaching! The DVD includes a history and background on the Constitutional and First Amendment, a panel discussion with constitutional experts, information about a national survey of student attitudes about the First Amendment and interviews with First Amendment Center founder John Siegenthaler and others about the importance of the First Amendment.

• Business of High School Publications – This teaching DVD is an introduction to the business-side issues of student media and is available to anyone interested in making student media business practices more efficient. The DVD covers advertising sales, layout and design, business careers in publications, marketing your publication and even a lesson plan!

• Business Reporting, Following the Money – This DVD is a classroom guide to the emerging field of business journalism and consumer reporting. It highlights major points of a panel discussion comprising of professional business journalists who discussed the role of business and its potential for college and high school journalists. Learn from these national experts on how commerce and financial issues touch all our lives, and pick up tips for your classroom.

• Sports Journalism: A New Era – This sports DVD follows a two-day symposium that examined sports writing and the profession’s goals for the future. The DVD features sports journalism experts from newspapers, magazines and television.

• A First Amendment Guide for Principals and Administrators – This Silver Telly award-winning DVD was developed as part of J-IDEAS’ initiative to help principals and administrators create first Amendment awareness in schools. The DVD features highlights from school administrators and journalism educators, and provides insight on the role administrators play in working with student media. In addition, the DVD explains principals’ attitudes as reflected in the national First Amendment study, the importance of relationship building between principals and journalism advisers, an overview of court cases that have shaped the First Amendment and finding new ways to develop public relations in schools. The DVD also features separate commentaries from a school administrator and principal on First Amendment rights in a high school setting.

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Free Speech 3.0: Student Expression in the Digital Age – J-IDEAS worked with the McCormick Tribune Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to making life better for our children, communities and country, in conceiving, developing and carrying out the Free Speech in Schools conference, “Free Speech 3.0: Student Expression in the Digital Age,” as part of the McCormick Tribune Conference Series. From this, a booklet was created as a quick resource guide to First Amendment issues for students, parents, teachers, administrators and anyone else who cares about freedom of speech in high school. For more information on how to obtain this free booklet, please contact Brenda Pritchard, J-IDEAS’ project secretary, at 765.285.8923.

Principal’s Guide to Scholastic Journalism – Quill and Scroll Foundation, founded with the idea of recognizing scholastic journalism programs, has published “Principal’s Guide to Scholastic Journalism,” a booklet that addresses the value and importance of these programs in high schools today. This booklet helps to provide the guidelines for a healthy and prosperous atmosphere in which all scholastic journalism activities in today’s high school may function. To obtain a free copy of Quill and Scroll’s booklet, please contact Brenda Pritchard, J-IDEAS’ project secretary, at 765.285.8923.

J-IDEAS, Live Free bracelets – J-IDEAS has designed First Amendment bracelets to publicly showcase our support for the Constitution! These fashionable, white bracelets, are available for $.50 per bracelet plus shipping costs.  Please contact Brenda Pritchard, J-IDEAS’ project secretary, for more information, at 765.285.8923.

Live Free: A First Amendment Documentary – J-IDEAS has had the opportunity to work with Alex Capogna, a high school student, who has been writing, directing and producing short movies and documentaries since age nine. His latest documentary, “Live Free: A First Amendment Documentary,” will be showing at film festivals around the U.S. J-IDEAS is proud to be helping to distribute these DVDs for $10.00 each. Please contact Brenda Pritchard, J-IDEAS’ project secretary, at 765.285.8923 for more information.