Describes a workshop recommended for the beginning of each term to orient journalism students to the use of computers for news writing. (HTH)

Describes various assignments and teaching techniques for teaching journalism students news reporting methods, news writing, photojournalism, and computer generated research papers. (HOD)

Describes instructor-developed exercises for Hypercard stacks on news gathering simulations and stylebook quizzes, as well as a practical use for Hypercard in the "real world." (MS)

Four commercially available instructional software programs for high school journalism students are examined in this paper, which also contains suggestions on their use. The four programs reviewed in the paper provide (1) practice in finding the best interview sources in a newsgathering simulation (Super Scoop); (2) review and reinforcement of…

Reports on the satisfaction of college news writing students with a computer program which combines reporting simulation with a writing analysis of the students' news stories. Finds that students rated the computer program significantly ahead of the paper version of the exercise. Suggests providing more detailed feedback in the computer program.…

The use of computer assisted instruction (CAI) at Indiana University to provide basic grammar review to beginning writing students, and the results of an evaluation of the PLATO system as a learning resource are described. At the time of the evaluation, the CAI curriculum in use was the Language Arts Routing System (LARS). The evaluation involved…