Author Archives: Julie Dodd
Bump app lets you transfer contacts between iPhones or Androids
A useful part of attending the SJD midwinter meetings is learning about new ideas to try — personally and in my teaching. You can see from my blog posts during the meeting that I have a list of Web sites and software to check out. I’ve already downloaded a new app — Bump. It’s free […]
GoToMeeting and Wiggio enable groups to have productive meetings without face-to-face meetings
In the discussion about how to save money, several suggested cutting back on face-to-face meetings and using online meetings. One suggestion was Wiggio. Cheryl Pell uses Wiggio with several groups, including a journalism education group. She uses Wiggio to send e-mails and text messages to the group and sharing documents and links. The group site […]
Finding Funding during difficult economic times is important topic for scholastic journalism organizations
Sandy Woodcock, Newspaper Association of America Foundation (NAAF), discussed how NAAF is dealing with two major factors — big drop in the NAAF income due to the drop in the stock market in 2007 and the financial problems for the newspaper industry (causing media organizations to drop their NAA membership and to drop Newspaper in […]
Steve Antley, Lakeland Ledger designer, offers advice about newspaper design (which includes online)
Steve Antley, design director for The Lakeland Ledger, shared pages he has designed and discussed how decisions are made on how to visually present a story. Most of his discussion was about design were about the print product, but he did mention a few coordinated effort between the print version and the online product. Breaking […]
Online courses can help journalism teachers get needed training and needed credit
Offering Online Training for High School Journalism Teachers is being led by Candace Bowen (Kent State), Cheryl Pell (Michigan State) and Vanessa Shelton (Iowa). They are sharing information about their online courses. Motivations for starting online courses are: Provide teachers with the opportunity to take classes that don’t required being on campus. That is particularly […]
Teaching blogging — the spiral curriculum
Judy Robinson, Mindy McAdams and I were the panel at the end of the afternoon — talking about Strategic Blogging. The three of us all are part of the Journalism Department’s faculty at University of Florida and all teaching blogging in different courses in the curriculum. In talking together about what to do in our […]
Augmented reality may not present reality
Sara closed her presentation by discussing some of the ethical issues that are part of storytelling with today’s technology. She showed a video story of a mom who flies military helicopters. The story created a different feeling when the story used natural sound and then the story that included dramatic music in the background. Should […]
Change part of your own course — could be by developing an iPhone app
So we agree that we can’t have all of our students prepared by having them take one multimedia course. The alternative is to incorporate a piece of multimedia training into each of our courses. How can we do that? Cheryl Pell at Michigan State has been teaching newspaper design for years. Now she includes an […]
Reporting Across Platforms helps promote that multimedia thinking
As I listen to Sara talk about the basis of multimedia training is multimedia thinking, I clicked mentally to Reporting Across Platforms, a course that I developed with Judy Robinson and Victoria Lim. The course is a free online training course. Just go to newsu.org, set up a free account and click on the class. […]
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