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Anti-flu kit for back to school
Twenty-five percent. That’s the percentage of students (and faculty) that the University of Florida administration say could contract swine flu this fall. With a student body of almost 50,000, that’s more than 12,000 students. Prevention is being promoted on campus as in K-12 school settings. UF has e-mailed information to faculty and students and has […]
Harry Potter amd Google searches
A Google search on almost any topic leads to links with visual materials — photos, video, graphics. Can I download and use those materials? That’s a good discussion to have with your students. Because a photo or video can be downloaded doesn’t mean that it is legal to do so. But many students think that […]
Not only no screen savers but no screens in this one-room school house
This is the view from the back of Greenbrier School. You can see this is “back to basics” in its true sense — wooden benches and slant-top desks and windows for temperature control.
Dress for success?
A friend and I were eating and noticed out the window on the patio when a group of four arrived, as each had a small dog. They worked on getting the dogs’ leashes teethered to the patio furniture. One of the four was in a very, very short sundress. This photo gives the general idea, […]
Blogging about on-the-job experience
Ilana Slott hoped I could help her solve a problem. She had just finished MMC 2100 last spring (2008) and had been offered an internship at News 12 in Long Island. That was near home for her so she could live with her parents for the summer. She’d be able to gain that important cross-platform […]
Money matters when it comes to many internships
The Huffington Post bid-for-an-intership situation is unique in requiring potential interns to bid to gain the position for the summer. However, internships often require the students to make a number of financial investments. Many internships are unpaid. Students may be working 20, 30, 40 or more hours a week for no pay. I took a […]
Still hunting for a summer media internship?
No resume or clips required. Just $15,500. That’s the next minimum bid for an internship this summer with The Huffington Post. The story in AdvertisingAge reports that the internship was contributed to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The current bid was $13,000. Bids continue until May 28.
Competition at universities not limited to athletics
Yet another buyout/takeover in the educational arena. According to today’s Wired Campus from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Blackboard Inc. plans to purchase Angel learning, another online course-management company. UF’s course-management system initially was WebCT. But then WebCT was purchased by Blackboard. The Poynter Institute’s course-management system for NewsU has been Angel, which I had […]
Calculating and uploading 243 students’ grades
The 243 grades are entered and finalized — meaning that the grades have been sent to the UF grade administrator. Paige (my lecture assistant) and I went lab by lab and then student by student, entering and then checking each grade. With a big class like this, I’m always interested in seeing how many of […]
Grading and grading and more grading
Grading and grading and more grading That’s the theme for teachers at the end of the semester — although that’s the theme throughout much of the semester, too. In addition to the last lab assignment, I’ve been grading the various makeup assignments. I think I’ve found them all — in paper form, on CD (for […]
Julie Dodd 