Category education
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 […]
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.
Telling a story with Soundslides
One of the technology learning experiences for the class was creating a Soundslides presentation. The class worked in pairs — determining a topic for the story they would tell, taking the photos, and recording the audio. Colleague Judy Robinson taught the class how to use Audacity and Garageband to edit their audio files. The teams […]
Sound check for Soundslides presentation
Judy and Melanie made sure the audio recorders were ready. After Judy explained how to use the recorders, each team received a recorder and headset to use for the afternoon assignment of recording audio and taking photos for a Soundslides presentation.
Indiana University High School Journalism Institute provides reunion with former HSJI participant
HSJI Reunion The summer of 1993 — I was teaching a writing and reporting class for high school journalism teachers at the High School Journalism Institute at Indiana University, and Stacie Shane was one of the graduate students in the course. Now it’s the summer of 2008. I am team teaching a teaching with technology […]
Fundraising for public radio
On the air I joined Donna Green-Townsend on the air today to fundraise for WUFT-FM and WJUF-FM, the public radio stations that are housed in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, where I’m on faculty. We worked during “Fresh Air,” one of my favorite programs from National Public Radio. “Fresh Air” […]
Professional advice from guest speaker
The lecture activity today was an interview with Joni Rollen (far left), recycling program assistant for the City of Gainesville. I conducted the interview with her about recycling, and students took notes. Their mission was both to collect information and quotes and also to determine a focus for their own recycling stories. With 250 students […]
Gunman on campus just 10 miles away; we’re in an auditorium that can’t be locked
Yesterday the gunman on campus wasn’t hundreds of miles away at Northern Illinois University or Virginia Tech. The gunman was 10 miles away at Santa Fe Community College. No one was shot. The gunman was captured. He did have a loaded gun on campus, which he allegedly threatened another student with. He was on the […]
JEA Mentoring Program gains ‘best practices’ from New Teacher Center resources
During the symposium we acquired quite a collection of materials from the New Teacher Center and from school districts that made presentations. We were interested not only in the information itself, but, as journalism educators, we were interested in the design and packaging of the materials — booklets, brochures, newsletters, reports and CDs.
Julie Dodd 