Category curriculum development
Documentary Film Institute’s ‘Bound by Haiti’ is getting coverage beyond its screenings
The Documentary Film Institute at the University of Florida is interested in getting publicity for its program and the documentaries that the graduate students and the faculty in the program produce. However, this year, a documentary could be made about the Documentary Institute itself. The latest issue is about one of the four documentaires produced […]
“Video Storytelling on the Web” on NewsU provides free online training for those interested in learning video shooting and editing skills
“Video Storytelling for the Web” just launched on the Poynter Institute’s News University (NewsU) site. I was delighted to receive that e-mail announcement from NewsU manager Vicki Krueger because I was one of the three who developed the content for the course. The idea of having online courses, those that would be connected to tuition […]
Join the celebration of National Grammar Day
National Grammar Day. How exciting! Wait, that may not be grammatically correct. Are those sentence fragments? Should I avoid using an exclamation point? Let me try again. Isn’t it exciting that today is National Grammar Day? I almost missed the big event, and my students would have, too. Thank goodness that Sandy Woodcock, director of […]
Important initials for educational decisions
One of the major topics of discussion in today’s faculty meeting was our college budget and the university’s new budget model. Lots of important initials when you consider university finances. SCH – Student Credit Hours The credits tied to classes students take. The college gets one amount of money for students in our college and […]
Good for Abilene Christian University’s Optimist staff to publish on iPad
Speaking of technology changes in the media industry and how college curriculum should be changing to address those changes… The big news in technology today is Apple’s announcement of the iPad. About the size of a sheet of paper (8 1/2″ x 11″) and the width of a magazine, the iPad is very portable but […]
Town Hall Meeting generates discussion — but no specific conversation about the Journalism Department’s curriculum changes
The Town Hall Meeting’s panel discussion began with two questions from the moderator. 1) What does it mean to be a professional journalist and who will be the professional journalists in the future. For the most part, the panel agreed that who a professional journaist is will expand as more individuals will be working as […]
Town Hall Meeting provides opportunity for discussion between faculty and students
I was interested in hearing what my colleagues on the panel and I would say. The future of journalism is digital — and journalism now is digital. You don’t need to wait to take college courses to learn technology. Take courses online (newsu.org and lynda.com), read a book on a software application, work on it […]
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 […]
Julie Dodd 