Category higher education
Google celebrates 11th birthday
I’d certainly join in singing Happy Birthday to Google, which is 11 years old today. I discovered this little piece of Internet history when I went to the Google Web site today to do a search and did a double take on the spelling of Google. Googlle?! Surely Google didn’t have its own name misspelled. […]
UF tries to protect Tim Tebow’s #15 from non-sanctioned promotions
The University of Florida’s University Athletic Association is out to tackle anyone who is making money — or could be benefitting — from the use of Tim Tebow’s recognition as #15 of the Gator football team. The UAA always has been vigilant in protecting “the” Gator logo, UF brand lettering, etc. On game day, officials […]
“Can we lie?”
The topic for today’s lecture was writing personality profiles, as that is the writing assignment for the next two writing labs. We discussed interviewing techniques and story structure. We used someone almost everyone has read a profile of — UF’s quarterback Tim Tebow — to provide an example of focusing the profile and collecting anecdotes […]
RTNDA renames the organization to include ‘digital’
The winds of change continue to blow through the media industry. A major announcement was made yesterday by RTNDA. The current name — Radio and Television News Directors Association — will be changing on Oct. 13 — from RTNDA to RTDNA. The new name will be the Radio and Television Digital News Association. The timing […]
When you teach a large lecture course, your students may be everywhere you are
I teach a course that has about 250 students each semester. That’s about 500 students a year. And they’re everywhere. Not just in the auditorium. I enjoy running into my current and former student on campus. With almost 50,000 students on campus, UF can be a big and impersonal place. So hearing, “Hi, Dr. Dodd” […]
“I’m putting my whole course online next semester with Audacity,” she said.
It seemed like almost every student on the UF campus had an mp3 player and was listening as they walked across campus or waited for class to start. So I decided that I wanted to learn how to create audio files so I could start a podcast for one of my courses, Writing for Mass […]
Teaching online — start with one concept not the whole course
I read William Pannapacker’s essay “Online Learning: Reaching Out to the Skeptics,” on The Chronicle of Higher Education online and was reminded of a key aspect of making online learning work for faculty — starting with a bite-sized learning concept. The meat of Pannapacker’s essay is the last half when he talks about steps faculty […]
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 