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Exciting and Busy Year Begins for Academics
By Treva Dayton, academic director | Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:49 PM
Welcome back to yet another new school year! We hope it is an exciting and successful one for you and your students. It was wonderful to see so many of you enthusiastically preparing for another season of academic and theatre competition at our largest ever Capital Conference in July. You can see and hear more about the conference through a slideshow posted in this Leaguer.
If you attended the conference and turned in your attendance hours for CPE credit, you need to go to the academic Web page and print your certificate before Sept. 30.
As you can see from the totally new look of our website, UIL staff has been working diligently to provide more user-friendly, effective communication with member schools and the general public. Please take the time to explore the site to locate those links and resources you most often use and to discover the many new features now available. With a little patience you can find everything you need at this time of year. Honest.
New Media Workshop Excites More Than It Scares
By Jeanne Acton | Thursday, August 26, 2010 7:12 PM
This summer I went back to the classroom. Not as a teacher, but as a student. I attended the TAJE/ILPC New Media Workshop. For three days, former professional journalist Andrea Lorenz filled my brain with all things new media.
The workshop was amazing. Andrea taught me and 18 other classmates how to set up a website, how to make audio slide shows, how to edit podcasts, how to edit video and more. It was a lot, but Andrea organized everything in such a way that my simple brain could wrap itself around all of the new information.
Plus, she gave us so much supporting materials, that even if I forgot everything I learned in those three days, I could relearn it through the information she gave us.
Donahue Comes Home to the League
By Julianne Coyne | Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:14 AM
Ashley Donahue
Photo by Julianne Coyne
UIL’s newest employee, Ashley Donahue, administrative assistant for speech and debate, has an almost 20-year history with the League. That’s pretty impressive since she’s only 26 years old.
In second grade Donahue started competing in storytelling and creative writing. It was a rather traumatic first experience with UIL.
“When I first got to the school for that competition, I had to go to the restroom,” she said. “A teacher showed me where to go, but when I came out everyone was gone. They just left me.”
ILPC Pilots Documentary Contest
By Jeanne Acton | Friday, August 20, 2010 1:48 PM
At the 2010 ILPC Summer Workshop, instructor Andrea Lorenz works with adviser Bill DeFries from Corpus Christi King High School. DeFries and his editor took the New Media class to learn how to create videos, audio slideshows, websites and more. Photo was taken by a 2010 ILPC Summer Workshop photography student.
It’s time to tell us your school’s UIL story — video documentary style.
The Interscholastic League Press Conference will offer a new documentary film contest this year — “UIL: Our Story.”
2010 Capital Conference Wrap-Up
By Julianne Coyne | Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:54 AM
Slideshow from the 2010 Capital Conference.
Academic State Meet Deemed a Success
By Julianne Coyne | Friday, May 14, 2010 9:57 AM
Current Issues and Events State Director Tom Ray congratulates the 5A Champion, Michael Zhu from Dulles HS in Sugarland.
Photo by Jeanne Acton
Students from across the state descended on the University of Texas at Austin campus May 6-8 to compete at the Centennial Academic State Meet. More than 2,500 students vied to be state champions and take home a centennial medal.
CX Debate State Meet celebrates the centennial anniversary
By Jana Riggins | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:50 AM
Director Jana Riggins opens the CX Debate State Meet.
UIL is 100 years old. In March, the Cross-Examination Debate State Meet was the actual 100th state competition the University Interscholastic League has sponsored. UIL held its first contest with 10 debate teams, each representing one of the 10 districts in the state. Now, 32 districts in five conferences vie for the state crown.
Journalism adviser’s husband continues to give and teach even after his death
By Jeanne Acton | Friday, April 23, 2010 2:43 PM
On the Monday after a district meet, I am a tad frightened of my phone. Those calls are not usually much fun.
So when Rhonda Moore, the academic coordinator and journalism coach for her school, called me, I figured the news wasn’t good.
And from her tone, I suspected we had a big problem.
We did. But it had nothing to do with the district meet.
Student Activity Conference Dates Changed for 2010
By Jeanne Acton | Friday, April 23, 2010 12:24 PM
Due to a scheduling conflict, the dates and locations have changed from those released at the CX Debate State Meet in March.
Judging Survey and Other News Kicks Off OAP Season
By Luis Munoz | Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:10 AM
The League office hopes that all of you have had a great school year and are ready to dive into this year’s OAP season. There have been many changes implemented this year. The online enrollment process has come and gone and was rather painless. Our current enrollment is 1,200. My thanks to the UIL’s Larry Woods for the design and execution of the system.