This article explores how social media use in formal and informal learning spaces can support the development of digital citizenship for secondary school students. As students increasingly spend large amounts of time online (e.g., an average of six hours of screen time per day, excluding school and homework), it is critical that they are…

This exploratory study introduces the systemic approach and the explicit teaching of a meta-language to provide conceptual tools for students for the analysis and interpretation of multimodal texts. Equipping students with a set of specialised vocabulary with conventionalised meanings associated with specific choices in multimodal texts empowers…

On November 28, 2008, Jdimytai Damour, age 34, was killed by a stampeding mob of customers running to get the day-after-Thanksgiving bargains. Even after customers in the store were informed that four people were injured and one man died, most chose to keep shopping. Looking at the root causes of this unfortunate death, it seems clear that…

This volume includes four sections of the 2020 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; (2) Language and Linguistics; (3) Philosophy; and (4) Sociology and Healthcare. Education and Educational Research includes 15 papers covering the full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy…

Offers several suggestions to high schools for organizing, coordinating, promoting, and selling their theater season. (JMF)

Indicates that to build a successful yearbook advertising program an adviser must instill enthusiasm and then find students willing to sell advertising. Provides eight guidelines for structuring an advertising sales program. (TJ)

Offers suggestions for selling advertising space in student newspapers. Includes criteria for successful salespeople, a list of common time-wasters, and some principles for advertising salespeople. (TJ)

Last of a four part series, this article tells students how to advertise and sell a newsmagazine. (RB)

Suggests ways to sell school yearbooks early in the school year so that bids can be considered with money in hand and so that staff members can concentrate on producing a good book. Describes methods used at a small Iowa high school for selling yearbooks and for selling yearbook advertising space. (TJ)

Suggests ways to get the most out of yearbook advertising by planning the advertising section well in advance and shows examples of effective yearbook advertising. (RB)

Presents a critical analysis of advertising appearing in this journal from September 1978 to May 1979. (DF)

Enumerates information that advertising sales people for school newspapers should have before they call on potential customers. Includes ideas on what to know about a number of items, including the publication, readers and nonreaders, advertising, sales opportunities, prospects, prospects' problems, shopping factors, and stores' images. (TJ)

Presents a public service advertisement distributed by the International Paper Company to help students improve their vocabulary. (DD)

States that many school newspapers are condensing all advertising into one or two pages. Indicates that advertisers find this to be acceptable, students continue to read the ads, and the content pages look better. (TJ)

Offers advice to the school newspaper sales person so an account will not only be sold but will be properly serviced. (HOD)