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Starting off the new school year
Tomorrow is a big day for education in Gainesville. The public schools have their first day of classes. At UF, not only are faculty holding meetings but the Graduate School is holding a two-day orientation for new graduate students. I’ve been in communication with the six new teaching assistants who will be teaching with me, […]
Changes for Newspaper Association of America Foundation mean changes for journalism education
We introduced ourselves. Most of the group were Newspaper in Education specialists from papers from Arizona to South Carolina. Members of the Newspaper Association of America Foundation staff represented diversity, circulation, communication and educational outreach. Several of the group worked with Youth Editors publications. Three of us represented scholastic journalism — Logan Aimone from the […]
Finding good sources — a ‘strike’ for reporters
Judy Robinson and I are teaching a graduate class at the Indiana University High School Journalism Institute. Our students are high school media teachers. The major assignment is for the students to go on campus and find a story that can be reported through multimedia — text, photos, audio, video. Judy and I decided that […]
Little Greenbrier School was school destination for children growing up in the area that became the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Learnin’ and education The children of the Smokies had many learning opportunities — how to churn butter, plant crops, make clothes, gather honey from hives, and preserve meat. But the families in the Smokies wanted their children to have the kind of learning that happens in a structured school setting. Little Greenbrier School began holding […]
JEA mentor program — a successful first year
The first year of the JEA mentoring program: 5 states participated – Colorado, Kansas, Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin 10 mentors were trained and began working with new teachers 25 new teachers were involved At the JEA/NSPA convention in Anaheim last month, the mentor participated in the second phase of their training. They swapped success stories, shared […]
UF’s graduation — orange and blue and excitement
Lining up – One of my duties as a graduation marshal was to help line up the journalism graduates in the hallway outside the arena floor. A highlight of being marshal is getting to see and visit with so many of the students who were in class with me two or three years before when […]
Teaching as a team
Even though teachers work with dozens and often hundreds of students, the experience can have some solitary aspects, as we typically are teaching on our own. It’s our course and our students, our lesson plans and our decisions. One of the aspects I really enjoy about teaching MMC 2100 is that it’s a team effort. […]
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” […]
My lab joined The Gator Nation campaign on YouTube
My lab joined The Gator Nation campaign on YouTube yesterday. Our lab assignment for the day was writing a print ad for The Gator Nation campaign. Leann Williams, an advertising student in the lab, talked with me about the YouTube aspect of the campaign. I checked it out on the UF site for The Gator Nation and […]
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 […]
Julie Dodd 