Classes: Learn to think like a reporter, photographer, illustrator, video producer, podcaster, and newsroom staff member

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We are on a mission to teach kids, Kindergarten to College, to think critically — like a reporter. Students can submit work already created for publication (articles, essays, artwork, photos, videos, games, puzzles, more; $3/submission). And we are also offering classes to help them learn the tenets of journalism, photography, and illustration, as well as how to work in a newsroom (starting at $75 per session for each 2-6 hour Zoom class).

Products and services: 

  • Subscribe: Get our bimonthly printable PDF of our magazine in your email inbox and find nearly 50 pages of articles by kids, for kids, about kids: $30/ year. (You also have the opportunity to print the magazine, $20/issue)
  • Submissions: articles, artwork, photos, videos, games, puzzles, and more: $3 (Click here to pay submission fee)
  • Take a class: 
    • Journalism (3 sessions): I am an award-winning reporter and teach the journalism classes. In Class 1, the assignment is to be part of our “So You Want to be a …” book project, in which they interview a parent about their work. They learn how to do research, develop interview questions, and practice asking the questions; then they write the article, and we work on it together until it’s ready for our student editors to copyedit and publish it.
    • Photojournalism (2 sessions): Our Inkandescent photographer, AnnaGibbs.com, guides students through the process of taking photos for the articles. She teaches them the essentials of taking a good photograph, how to capture the essence of the story they are working on, and, once she approves the images, we send them to our editorial team for inclusion in the article.
    • Illustration (4 sessions): Award-winning illustrator michaelglenwood.com works with students to create artwork to accompany the articles. He teaches them to identify the main concepts in the article they are working on, create 3 sketches for editor review, and then craft the illustration. Upon his review and approval, it goes to the editorial team.
    • Videos (4 sessions): With me, Inkandescent’s video and podcast producer, Nelson Benavides, teaches students how to capture the essence of an interview through video and podcasting. He focuses on helping students understand the technical aspects of production.
    • Podcasting (3 sessions): 
    • Newsroom staff member (6 sessions): Our InkandescentKids editor, Ellen Smith, is building our student newsrooms, which include a team of editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, and a layout team. In addition to our online magazine, they help us craft a bi-monthly printable publication that features a theme. This September-October theme is: New Beginnings.

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