IJIMS Playbook

IJIMS Video :

Research results are available. Please contact Dr. Ursula Wolz at ucwolz AT gmail DOT com for research protocols.

Planning for an IJIMS Summer:

Preparation for the week-long camp requires preparation from college facilities, undergraduates, teachers, and the planning of interviews, beats, and schedules.

• Our Summer 2010 Timeline
• Logistics for Undergraduates and Students (please see MUSE under "Other Resources" for help with getting undergrads into the IJIMS program)
• General Sourcebooks (very useful when compiling articles)
• Interview Planning (also highly useful in planning an IJIMS summer)
• Other Things to Consider

Letters and Forms

• For Parents and Students
• Video/Photo Release Form
• Student Health Forms
• Student Assent
• Field Trip Permission
• Study Group Permission
• Conratulations Letter
• Orientation
• Scratch Day Invitations

• For Undergraduates
• Undergraduate Form

• For Teachers
• Teacher Orientation Letter

As our staff worked on the program as an NSF-funded project, we had to have the following forms as well. If you intend to run the program as a funded project to be assessed/documented, these forms will also be necessary.

• Student Assent Form
• Parent-Student Permission

The Summer Camp:

By "Kids' Week", or the week where the students come to the college for the camp, activities have to be scheduled, interviews have to be finalized, and presentations about journalism and computer science must be prepared. "Beatbags", or bags containing all essential tools for students to use during interviews, must also be completed.

• Beats
• Beat Groups
• A schedule for one such group
• Off-Beat Activities (for use when groups are not conducting research or interviews)
• Schedules
• Presentation Schedules (such as one on Journalism)
• Interview Schedules (for all groups)

Other Resources

• Scratch Website
• The IJIMS Scratch Gallery
• Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience programs like TCNJ's MUSE program have also assisted in housing undergraduates. More information on how to fold the IJIMS program into a summer research program can be found here.

Journalism and Interviewing Tools

• Professor Kim Pearson's Scratch Gallery for Journalism
• Kelli Plaskett's Interviewing 101
• Scott Kiefer's Off-Beat Activity Article
• A "sourcebook", as defined by Professor Kim Pearson, can also be useful for the program. Supervised (and contributed to) by Professor Pearson, researchers Rebecca Bernot and Nancy Sai helped compile information within the sourcebook. The sourcebook was coded by Andrew Chuisano and Dan Gill.
• Sourcebook

CAFÉ

Café is an online publishing suite we developed just for IJIMS. It allows the students to experience all of the steps of publishing in a clean, easy-to-use interface.

For more information and a download link, click here.