MediaNowSTL's digital media camp brought in more than 100 students from 30 area high schools.
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Emily Adair | Lindenlink staff
More than 100 high school students attended a digital media boot camp hosted by MediaNowSTL June 23-26 at Lindenwood University. Students were able to enroll in one of eight courses to sharpen their journalism skills.
When Kate and Aaron Manfull started the camp three years ago, only four courses were available — broadcast, multimedia, design and web. The course offering has since expanded to include editorial leadership, mobile journalism and writing, while design was divided between newspaper and yearbook.
The digital media camp strongly encouraged the use of cell phones and devices during class and group activities.
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Outside of class, camp goers participate in large group activities to ease tensions during the four-day camp.
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Students choose team names before activities on day three.
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One section chooses a team name before breaking off into smaller groups to compete for iTunes cards.
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Students work together to produce a 15-second broadcast.
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Camp goers brainstorm for a caption writing contest.
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Students race to tweet the best photo captions.
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Teammates record one another for the 15-second broadcast competition.
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Camp co-founder Kate Manfull gives students advice for their personal branding T-shirt designs.
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Several camp goers sketch designs for the T-shirt contest.
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Jordyn Klackner, who played a large role in organizing and running the camp, showcases the how T-shirt text should look for best quality.
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Students carefully print their designs on shirts provided by Shirt Kong.
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Campers work together to bleach their T-shirts with customized designs.
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A student prints designs on both sides of his shirt, hoping to win the contest judged by Shirt Kong representatives Chelsea and Nathan.
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A camp goer portrays what the “Macaroni Monster Mash” should look like as a dance move.
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Manfull reads trivia as students determine if the statement is true.
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Game finalists show that they believe the statement is a fact.
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Manfull shoots each camp goer in an “I Want You” pose. The images were later compiled to create a poster that each student went home with.
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MediaNowSTL’s digital media camp brought in more than 100 students from 30 area high schools.
Photo credit Emily Adair
MediaNowSTL offered beginning and advanced broadcast to help students learn how to shoot and edit video to tell stories, using readily available equipment.
Editorial leadership was designed to strengthen the leadership skills of students in a number of positions in the field of journalism.
Mobile journalism was created to show students how to write, shoot and edit stories using tools like smartphones and iPods.
Photography students focused on telling stories through images while “ReDesign: Newspaper” and “ReDesign: Yearbook” students workshopped design ideas that they could apply to their high school publications.
Web was also offered at beginning and advanced levels, teaching students to create their own news sites using WordPress, and to adjust and improve already existing sites.
The writing students were taught to produce quality stories with a limited timeframe.
Students were given the option to earn college credit with LU for the work they completed during the four-day boot camp.
Legacy/Lindenlink Editor-in-Chief and President of the Society of Professional Journalists, Emily is an all-around information aficionado with further aspirations in content creation.
She studies journalism and political science. She also adores jigsaw puzzles.
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