Category higher education
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 […]
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 […]
Whooo is graduating?
What an appropriate mortar board topping for Lauren Ruff, advertising major and director of AdWorks, a creative group within the Ad Society. She made Hedwig from directions she found on the Internet — printing the pattern on her printer and then putting Hedwig together complete with some individual paper feathers. What made Hedwig even better […]
Reception for grads of the UF College of Journalism and Communications draws a crowd
Reception in Weimer Courtyard Hundreds of students and parents walked from the O’Connell Center to Weimer Hall for refreshments and to meet faculty members. An aerial view helped me find a couple of students so I could meet their parents.
Getting ready for the graduation ceremony
Ready for graduation The place: O’Connell Center The time: Sunday at 1:20 The event: Graduation for the College of Journalism and Communications I was a marshal at the back of the line for the journalism grads. This was my view when I stepped into the auditorium about 20 minutes before the processional started. The students […]
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” […]
Hogwarts and UF
Lauren Ruff was one of the students recognized at the College of Journalism and Communications Awards Banquet this week, receiving an award as one of the top advertising students. I’ve followed her progress in the college since she was a student in my MMC 2100 lab. She has been the director of AdWorks, an ad agency […]
Spring practice begins for Gator football team
Florida cities have their own seasons. For cities like Ft. Lauderdale and Sarasota, one season is “snow bird” season. Those are the winter months when folks from out of state and out of the country come to Florida to enjoy the warm weather. For cities like Daytona Beach and Panama City, droves of college […]
A successful thesis defense
It’s that time of year — the time for thesis and dissertation defenses. Those academic rites of passage happen throughout the year. But more defenses occur this time of year, as the deadline for turning in defended theses and dissertations for a May graduation is the end of March. Today was Holly Meade’s defense, and […]
24 hours – more than 100 text messages
Lauren and I ran into each other on the way to class — literally. I asked her if she was text messaging when we almost collided in the hall. Yes, she said. How many times have you checked your text messages today? From when she got up (10 a.m.) until class (3 p.m.), she’d checked […]
Julie Dodd 