Category curriculum development
Harry Potter and the Quest for Higher FCAT Reading Scores
A special aspect of teaching at a big university like the University of Florida is that the campus has so many interesting activities and events going on — both those related to UF classes and activities related to special events and field trips. Today as I was walking through the student union on my way […]
AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division meeting provides great views and festive times in addition to learning opportunity
The AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division meeting in St. Petersburg was professionally energizing and fun. The Poynter Institute is an excellent venue for our meeting, and Poynter faculty member Ellyn Angelotti provided a great kickoff session.Sessions included strategies for improving our teaching, including dozens of ideas for incorporating technology. Dow Jones News Fund Teacher of the […]
8 apps for your smartphone or iPad
by Casey Kochey and Christine Eschenfelder The panel is back on the stage to offer their picks for the top eight apps for smart phones and tablet computers. (Here’s the PDF of their picks — ipad-innovations) Julie Dodd presented the first two choices: 1. The AP Stylebook – It’s searchable, portable and fairly inexpensive. 2. […]
2, 4, 6, 8 — Another live-blogging update: Cheryl Pell’s design tips
by Casey Kochey and Christine Eschenfelder Cheryl Pell is the next up with more tech tips for instructors: 3. Cheryl says to bookmark some of your favorite sites for design inspiration, showing a great clip on Vimeo, which she has tucked away for another day. She also talked about Cover Junkie, a site which stores […]
Bruce Konkle’s research traces how Journalism Education Association split from National Education Association
Bruce Knokle is presenting his research — “The National Education Association’s Framing of Scholastic Journalism during the 20th Century.” Bruce’s research analyzed the origin of scholastic journalism as a special interest area within the NEA. The Journalism Education Association formed as a subgroup of NEA and split out as a separate organization in the 1960s. […]
Group discusses challenge of encouraging high school media to go online
We wrapped up Aaron Manfull’s presentation with a discussion of some of the challenges in trying to get more student media to include online media. Some said that advisers aren’t signing up for summer journalism workshop classes that focus on how to create a website. Directors of summer workshops need to rethink how they promote […]
3 tips for courses for summer high school journalism workshops
If you are involved in planning summer journalism workshops for high school students and advisers, here is advice from Aaron Manfull: 1. Courses will have to change as platforms change. 2. Most beneficial classes: “Build an Online Presence” & “We have a site, now what?” 3. If you are teaching summer workshops, select one platform. […]
5 tips for creating student media website (but works for other new websites, too)
Aaron Manfull is offering tips about creating online student media. 1. Don’t make working on the website as punishment. Aaron explained at the beginning of the website, the student editors would make the staff members who missed their deadline for the print edition would have to write two stories for the website. That gave the […]
Dow Jones High School Journalism Teacher of the Year Aaron Manfull talks about rethinking high school student media
“Making the move online: It’s a great complement to print, it’s not scary with the right plan and it just might save scholastic journalism” is Aaron Manfull’s session this morning at the Scholastic Journalism Division meeting. He’s shared his slides at — goo.gl/qpDYK
6 strategies for discouraging cheating in auditorium testing situations
Preparing and giving exams are important parts of the job for most teachers. Giving exams in large classes — those with more than 50 students — present some special challenges. I know that from my experience in teaching a course with more than 150 students. Here are some tips for promoting a good testing situation […]
Julie Dodd 