Learn new skills, make new friends and find new passions at Ball State’s Summer Speech Camp! With 24 Speech State Championships, Ball State offers one of the most engaging workshop experiences for high school students looking to grow and improve in public speaking and oral interpretation. In this workshop, students will research, evaluate, organize, craft, practice and deliver a variety of speeches from informative to persuasive to interpretation and extemporaneous. Students will learn speech preparation, performance, and competition strategies that are sure to improve their artistry.
Reimagine your role as a leader by putting People Over Product. In this course, student leaders across all platforms — yearbook, newspaper, broadcast, and online — will learn to practice servant leadership, build self-confidence, and create a staff culture where failure is a steppingstone toward growth. We will explore how to motivate peers and cultivate resilient teams through improved communication and innovative workflow efficiencies. After exploring best practices, students will choose and develop a practical project tailored to their specific program’s needs. You will leave with the "why," the "how," and a concrete plan to set your staff up for success next school year.
Get ready to rethink how you create and collaborate! Design Thinking for Student Media is a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to use the same creative problem-solving process that innovators and designers rely on every day. You’ll explore how to understand your audience, brainstorm bold ideas, test new approaches, and bring them to life in your own publication. By the end, you’ll walk away with the tools and the confidence to use design thinking to level up your yearbook, newspaper, broadcast or social media game and create stories that grab attention, spark conversation, and truly reflect the spirit of your school.
Yearbook 101 introduces students to the fundamentals of scholastic journalism and yearbook production. Students will learn and explore yearbook terminology, journalistic ethics, interviewing, writing, photography, design, theme and teamwork while producing content and building relationships that support the creation of a successful yearbook.
A successful yearbook theme encapsulates the essence of the school year in an honest and creative way. In this workshop, students will focus on brainstorming unique school-year narratives through structured activities, analyzing trends, and selecting a cohesive verbal-visual concept. Key steps include identifying the year’s defining moments, brainstorming phrase variations, and planning consistent design elements such as typography and color schemes, across all sections.
This crash-course in journalistic writing will take participants through the core essentials of journalistic reporting — from understanding the basic elements of news to discussing and practicing information-gathering skills to writing solid inverted pyramid and angle-based narrative stories to editing. These skills create the foundation for all other components of journalistic storytelling.
This course will explore how multimedia storytelling can challenge norms, amplify community voices and inspire action. Through ethical reporting and dynamic interviews, students will learn how to write and produce stories covering the pressing issues of the day. By publishing on platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, students will develop modern day storytelling techniques that raise awareness and strengthen connections among people.
Media Design & Graphics will cover the skills needed to produce visual content for both print and digital media. Students will use programs within the Adobe Suite to learn the principles of graphic design, layout, typography, and visual storytelling. Students will design graphics, illustrations, and page layouts for various mediums using tutorials and independent exploration. No design experience is needed and those with design experience will be challenged to rethink the vision of their publication for a new school year.
Taking a photo is more than the click of a button. We will focus on how to capture your school and student body and tell their story. This summer, we will explore composition, lighting, and editing for beginning and advanced photographers. In this workshop, we will discuss ethics, staff organization and coverage, and leadership. You will learn editing in both Photoshop and Lightroom. Bring a camera and be ready to shoot. On-site photo assignments will create conversation, critique, and community.
At Ball State Sports Link, we capture an endless amount of footage and sound of Ball State’s athletic programs. How do we get the most out of it? From storytelling to ESPN broadcasts, Ball State creatives will teach you how to plan, capture, produce, log and use footage across all media platforms, producing compelling and impactful video stories that inform, inspire and entertain audiences.
Ever wonder how movies create impossible worlds? In this workshop, students will step behind the scenes of post-production by filming on a green screen, experimenting with simple node-based compositing, and editing in Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve. By the end of the workshop, students will transform their own footage into visually enhanced scenes using professional post-production tools.
In this class, students will learn how esports use science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) to deliver, create and play esport games. Students will learn about gaming technology and safety, game build, esports production and graphics, livestreaming and gaming technique and strategy. This workshop culminates in an esports tournament with prizes and bragging rights!
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