Category curriculum development
UF announces plans to keep classes going even with swine flu outbreak
The email was sent to deans today, explaining UF’s developing plans for keeping classes going even if the university is hit with an outbreak of the swine flu. The dean of our college forwarded the e-mail to us. He had told of us of the coming of the e-mail yesterday in our faculty meeting when […]
Anti-flu kit for back to school
Twenty-five percent. That’s the percentage of students (and faculty) that the University of Florida administration say could contract swine flu this fall. With a student body of almost 50,000, that’s more than 12,000 students. Prevention is being promoted on campus as in K-12 school settings. UF has e-mailed information to faculty and students and has […]
How are scholastic journalism organizations incorporating digital media into contests?
How are scholastic journalism organizations incorporating digital media into contests? Panelist Cheryl Pell discussed how the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association has moved registration to Web from booklet mailing.
Students start Tumblr blogs for MMC 2100
Tumblr is going to have a small boost in users over the next week with about 250 MMC 2100 (Writing for Mass Communication) students at the University of Florida opening new Tumblr accounts. Last year, the MMC 2100 lab instructors and I agreed that we should including blogging in the course. Students needed to have […]
Promoting interest in scholastic journalism
The Florida Scholastic Press Association District 2 workshop brought high school and middle school advisers and students to the College of Journalism and Communications for a full-day of activities on Saturday. I joined FSPA Executive Director Judy Robinson in team-teaching a session on podcasting and Soundslides. Judy’s FSPA office staff were particularly excited about the […]
I’m interested in your comments
I’m interested in your comments When I started this Tumblr blog in January 2007, I had several motivations: Blogging was going to be an assignment in a course I teach, and I had never blogged before. My technology advisor and colleague Judy Robinson told me that I could blog from my iPhone with Tumblr. That […]
Gator Cyberslate: New addition to my Mass Communication Teaching class
Gator Cyberslate is a new addition to my Mass Communication Teaching class this semester. I set up this blog in Blogger as a team blog. Everyone in the course can post a blog and can post comments. This is my first attempt at a group blog. I have heard mixed results of faculty who have […]
Changes for Newspaper Association of America Foundation mean changes for journalism education
We introduced ourselves. Most of the group were Newspaper in Education specialists from papers from Arizona to South Carolina. Members of the Newspaper Association of America Foundation staff represented diversity, circulation, communication and educational outreach. Several of the group worked with Youth Editors publications. Three of us represented scholastic journalism — Logan Aimone from the […]
Working lunch to plan Soundslides project
A fun part of our daily routine was being able to go as a group to lunch on most days during the week. These were working lunches, with us talking as a group on issues related to advising or with partners planning their Soundslides project.
Finding good sources — a ‘strike’ for reporters
Judy Robinson and I are teaching a graduate class at the Indiana University High School Journalism Institute. Our students are high school media teachers. The major assignment is for the students to go on campus and find a story that can be reported through multimedia — text, photos, audio, video. Judy and I decided that […]
Julie Dodd 