Category curriculum development
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. […]
How can/should colleges incorporate multimedia into the curriculum?
Curriculum Issues in the Age of the New Media is the topic for discussion with Sara Quinn, Poynter Institute faculty. Sara asked us: Can you can hang your hopes on one person — that new multimedia hire? Do you think you’re going to have that one course that will take care of multimedia instruction? How […]
Effective blogging requires some different-than-news-story writing strategies
Mindy McAdams stressed that all journalism students should know how to blog — and should have an active blog — by the time they graduate. That’s because most who are going to be hired for a newspaper job are expected to know how to blog. Here are some tips about writing for blogs: Short posts […]
They Might Be Giants and Billy Joel remind us that learning can be something we can sing about
A drive across town running errands was a reminder of how creative approaches to information delivery can beat the traditional approaches. I happened to listen to Ira Flatow’s Science Friday on National Public Radio. He introduced They Might Be Giants, a music group who lauched into playing and singing “Science Is Real.” The song had […]
Center for Media Innovation and Research moves closer to opening
The Center for Media Innovation and Research (CMIR) has been a subject of discussion and funding for more than two years in the College of Journalism and Communications. For a year, two committees met to discuss plans for the Center. The full faculty has seen two presentations on the Center — one at last year’s faculty […]
National core standards for English and math proposed for K-12
When I was a graduate student in Administration and Supervision in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, one of my professors told of a recent trip he had taken to France where he had visited schools and met with national education officials. He was in the office of one of the top […]
If the flu hits, teachers may be teaching at unusual times to access auditoriums with Mediasite electronic delivery system
Student organizations and those who have planned events on campus may have to change their meeting locations if the flu hits UF. An email from the Office of the Registrar alerted us that the nine big auditoriums on campus will be used “for electronic distribution of classroom instruction” if the flu outbreak occurs. No meetings […]
The flu could make Slide:ology required reading for UF faculty
In preparation for the potential of a flu outbreak at the University of Florida, the UF administration has announced ways that teachers will be expected to make their course materials available online for those students who cannot attend class because they have the flu and those who do not attend class because they do not […]
Julie Dodd 