Metroplex MediaMania Journalism Workshop
Balfour-Taylor Publishing Company’s Metroplex MediaMania Journalism Workshop
Held each summer, this 3-day event will get you ready for the school year!
August 2- 4, 2011
Hotel & Workshop Location
Dallas Hilton Anatole
2201 Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX 75207
(214) 748-1200
Room rates are $109/night for a room with two double beds (4 students to a room.) Identify yourself as a participant in the Taylor Balfour group and you will receive this special rate, good for the evenings of August 1-3. Hotel Reservation deadline: July 15, 2011
Please call 1-800-HILTONS to make your room reservations
Group Name: TAYLOR BALFOUR or Group Code: TBM
Book your hotel online: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/D/DFWANHH-TBM-20110729/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
Workshop registration will begin downstairs at the Anatole at 8:30 a.m. on August 2. All sessions will end by 12:30 p.m. on August 4.
The hotel will provide a light/Continental breakfast.
Schedule
coming soon.
Tuition
$125 student: Yearbook and Newspaper
$145 student: Photography and InDesign
Please bring laptop computers for the InDesign and Photography sessions. Laptops are also beneficial for other sessions. Price includes lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday. Advisers who bring five (5) or more students attend tuition-free!
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Workshop Registration Deadline: June 1, 2011
Additional $30/person after June 1
$100 non-refundable cancellation fee after July 1
Download the Forms Packet (medical release, information, student fact sheet etc)
Supply List
While most workshop supplies will be provided, instructors have requested that students bring the following additional items:
• Each yearbook student (excluding photography and computer students) needs to bring magazines (for design work), a glue stick, a felt tip marker, pencils, scissors and a note pad. Each yearbook staff should also bring some poster boards and a copy of their most recent yearbook. Laptops are not required, but are highly recommended. Pocket dictionaries, thesauruses and idiom dictionaries are helpful.
• Students in the computer sessions will need to bring their own computers. Please make sure that your computer has the software program that you use for your publication(s) loaded on the hard drive. You should also bring at least one CD to save your work.
• Newspaper students should have recent copies of their school newspaper, pen or pencil, a glue stick, and a note pad. Laptops are not required, but are highly recommended.
• Traditional Photographers should bring a 35 mm camera and three rolls of 24 exposure 400 ISO color negative film. Also bring an extra camera battery(s).
• Digital Photographers should bring a digital camera and a computer with Photoshop installed. In addition, photographers should bring what is necessary (software, cables, etc.) to download photographs from the digital camera to the computer. Please bring extra camera batteries or the camera charger.
