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Media, New Technology and The Elections
Members of the College of Journalism and Communications advisory councils spent the day making presentations and then meeting with students. This panel discussed how technology use by the candidates has changed the Presidential campaign and how the media have changed their coverage and reporting. A few highlights from the panel — from left to right […]
Who needs PowerPoint?
In Mass Communication Teaching, everyone has taught class for 10 minutes, explaining an educational theory/theorist and using PowerPoint. In preparing for this short presentation, the class discussed PowerPoint. Everyone agreed that PowerPoint is used too often and typically not that effectively. But we agreed that PPT is an expected tool in one’s teaching strategies so […]
All calm for Quiz 1
Testing can cause anxiety for students and for the teacher. I’ve found a higher anxiety level when testing in an auditorium course like MMC 2100. Do I have enough copies of the test and of the Scantrons? Are all the questions clear? One poorly worded question could lead to more than 100 hands in the […]
Useful blogs & websites for college teachers
The assignment — find a useful blog Week Two of the grad class team blog. I asked each of them to share a blog that would be useful to college teachers — either a blog about teaching or a media-related blog. One student recommended naa.org — the Web site for the Newspaper Association of America. […]
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 […]
Technology in the media; technology in teaching
Yesterday was my first meeting with my two lectures for Writing for Mass Communication (MMC 2100) — about 260 students. I wanted to help get the students into thinking about both the course and their potential careers in the media. So in addition to distributing the lecture syllabus, we spent part of the class talking […]
A student goes with each syllabus
Fall semester began at UF on Monday with a large measure of excitement and high hopes and at least a pinch of anxiety and confusion. Even though I’ve taught Writing for Mass Communication (MMC 2100) for years, every semester I review the syllabus from the previous semester and consider how to make the course more […]
Team meeting to prepare for the start of classes
One of my favorite part of teaching at UF is working with teaching assistants. MMC 2100 has 260 students that break into 13 labs. Seven teaching assistants and one adjunct will be teaching with me — five of whom are new to teaching. We met yesterday to get ready for the start of classes on […]
Parking spaces available — but not for long
When I met with the 450 UF teaching assistants, I offered teaching strategies and advice. One of my pieces of advice was to be sure to have a transportation plan for next week when classes start. On a campus with 51,000 students, more than 5,000 faculty and administrative staff and maintanence staff, the competition is […]
Julie Dodd 