Category higher education
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 […]
Links are important part of blogs
Mindy encourages us to help students learn how to use links in their blogs. Not too many links — less is more. No obvious links — avoid links to well-known Web sites. No paid links, as you’ll lose the readers’ trust. Only links that have real value to readers, which increases your own credibility. Fact […]
At Poynter for Scholastic Journalism Division midwinter meeting
Great to be here at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies for the AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division midwinter meeting. Our division has been fortunate to have Poynter as our meeting location for more than 10 years. Our group consists of journalism educators who have some kind of connection with high school journalism/media. We do research […]
New year and new semester offer opportunities for teachers, students and administrators for change and improvement
Happy New Year! The start of a new year and a new semester is a good time for those of us in education — as teachers, students or administrators — to reflect on the previous year/semester and make resolutions for improvement. So here are a few suggestions. 1. Be willing to make some changes. This […]
College’s new Center for Media Innovation and Research still is under wraps
The latest issue of the College’s alumni magazine, Communigator, prompted several former students to contact me to ask what the status is on the new center — the Center for Media Innovation and Research (CMIR). The cover story is on the center. [I’d provide a link but the magazine isn’t online yet.] Most of us […]
Teachers and students feel snowed under at the end of the semester
When I first saw the falling snow feature for WordPress, I thought the look wouldn’t work for my blog. After all, I’m teaching in Florida and just ran wearing shorts and a T-shirt. But then I thought of my desk and dining room table. I’m snowed under with papers to grade. This is that time […]
Testing, testing…
Posted from my iPhone A very filled auditorium for today’s exam. Scantrons, pencils and three versions of the exam. Only when we had distributed the exam did we realize a problem with the numbering for one exam version. Fortunately, with an announcement, the exam was corrected by the students. Do you have a story of […]
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 […]
Nike truck arrives at UF campus with Nike Pro Combat Uniforms — promoting Saturday’s game (and game clothing)
If you haven’t been following the latest in college football fashion wear… Here are the Nike Pro Combat Uniforms — ten college teams selected to receive special uniforms and helmets from Nike. Of the ten teams, three are from Florida, with the University of Florida in the center in blue. Florida will be wearing the […]
Julie Dodd 