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August 26, 2010
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You may not have seen the fol­low­ing, first sent to the JEA list­serv on Aug. 26, but you def­i­nitely want to check out the Stu­dent Press Law Center’s improved site. And encour­age your stu­dents to book­mark this site themselves!

Friends,
We hope that you will take a few min­utes — today, and every day — to visit the www.splc.org web­site, and let us know what you think.

This morn­ing, after a year of ground­work, we flipped the switch on a greatly upgraded site that is designed to be more modern-looking and eas­ier to nav­i­gate, with enhanced edu­ca­tional con­tent that you can put to use in your class­room, your news­room and your stu­dio. We hope that you will pay spe­cial atten­tion to the new Class­room Resources sec­tion, which puts in one place the hand­outs, les­son plans, instruc­tional videos, pod­casts and Pow­er­Points that can aid in your teach­ing (and learn­ing) of cur­rent media-law topics.

Just some of the many new fea­tures on the site include:

“Learn­ing from the Head­lines” les­son plans tai­lored to stim­u­late class dis­cus­sion about recent law-related news events.
“Ask Adam” videos on vimeo.com, fea­tur­ing the lovely and tal­ented Adam Gold­stein tak­ing ques­tions from stu­dent jour­nal­ists about their most prob­lem­atic legal issues (if you send us one and we use it, we’ll send you a T-shirt).
A new “Get Involved” sec­tion that includes a talking-points primer about the work of SPLC, for those inter­ested in rep­re­sent­ing the SPLC as sur­ro­gate speak­ers, plus public-service “house ads” and a web­site badge to show the world your sup­port for stu­dent press rights.
We are enor­mously grate­ful to SPLC staffers Adam Gold­stein, Brian Schraum and Julia Chap­man for their cre­ativ­ity in design­ing this new con­tent and their dili­gence in bring­ing it to reality.

Click around and get famil­iar with what’s avail­able on the site, and if you like it, help us pub­li­cize the launch through your social net­works (and of course, tell your stu­dents and your col­leagues). Please book­mark www.splc.org and return often to check for new mate­r­ial, and of course, let me know directly at director@splc.org if you’re not find­ing what you need or have an idea for mak­ing the site even better.

–
Frank D. LoMonte
Exec­u­tive Direc­tor
Stu­dent Press Law Cen­ter
1101 Wil­son Boule­vard, Suite 1100
Arling­ton, VA  22209–2211
(703) 807‑1904, ext. 121 phone
(703) 807‑2109 fax
director@splc.org
www.splc.org