Category higher education
Important initials for educational decisions
One of the major topics of discussion in today’s faculty meeting was our college budget and the university’s new budget model. Lots of important initials when you consider university finances. SCH – Student Credit Hours The credits tied to classes students take. The college gets one amount of money for students in our college and […]
Tips on blogging from Gainesville Sun reporter Nathan Crabbe help students get ready to start their own blogs
This week the students in Writing for Mass Communication set up their own blogs. The assignment is to post at least once a week for the next seven weeks. Some students have said they are excited about this requirement. “I’ve wanted to start a blog but just haven’t done it. So this assignment will make […]
Field trip to bookstores makes students aware of competition and strategy for magazines
“What did your Magazine Management students learn from the trip to the bookstore?” I asked Linda Hallam the week after she and her students toured the magazine stands at Borders and Books-A-Million. The importance of placement on the newsstand. Sometimes just the location of a magazine on the newsstand can make it hard to find. […]
Good for Abilene Christian University’s Optimist staff to publish on iPad
Speaking of technology changes in the media industry and how college curriculum should be changing to address those changes… The big news in technology today is Apple’s announcement of the iPad. About the size of a sheet of paper (8 1/2″ x 11″) and the width of a magazine, the iPad is very portable but […]
Town Hall Meeting provides opportunity for discussion between faculty and students
I was interested in hearing what my colleagues on the panel and I would say. The future of journalism is digital — and journalism now is digital. You don’t need to wait to take college courses to learn technology. Take courses online (newsu.org and lynda.com), read a book on a software application, work on it […]
Journalism students organize Town Hall Meeting to promote discussion of the future of journalism and journalism education in the college
Tomorrow evening a special event is being held for our college — a Journalism Town Hall Meeting. Students in the campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and staff members of The Fine Print have organized what they hope will be the first of several town hall meetings. The topic for tomorrow’s panel discussion […]
Selecting a textbook to help promote student learning
I was walking across the stage in the auditorium before class when I heard a student say: “I love this textbook.” Needless to say, that caught my attention. I turned and saw two students on the front row looking at the course textbook — Carole Rich’s Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method. “I really […]
Online courses can help journalism teachers get needed training and needed credit
Offering Online Training for High School Journalism Teachers is being led by Candace Bowen (Kent State), Cheryl Pell (Michigan State) and Vanessa Shelton (Iowa). They are sharing information about their online courses. Motivations for starting online courses are: Provide teachers with the opportunity to take classes that don’t required being on campus. That is particularly […]
Teaching blogging — the spiral curriculum
Judy Robinson, Mindy McAdams and I were the panel at the end of the afternoon — talking about Strategic Blogging. The three of us all are part of the Journalism Department’s faculty at University of Florida and all teaching blogging in different courses in the curriculum. In talking together about what to do in our […]
Julie Dodd 