After the platform party was on stage, my role was to guard one of the rear exit doors, keeping students from leaving before the ceremony was over. The ceremonies are fairly short now, as only our college was graduating. But more than five years ago, numerous colleges would hold their graduations together, and the ceremony […]

The dramatic changes in the media industry. The impact of technology changes. The budget concerns. All of these are helping encourage our faculty — and faculty of communications programs across the country — to review and revise the curriculum.  Are our students learning the technology skills they need to be competitive in the media job […]

UF’s online grading system had some new features this semester. We were introduced to the updates with a 38-slide PowerPoint tutorial that was e-mailed to the faculty. With all that was involved in developing the new gradebook and the PowerPoint directions, the developers overlooked a basic — the order of the grades. Here’s the look […]

Seeing the big view – This was the view from the Compass restaurant atop the Hyatt. Carla & I had dinner and discussed the view of Phoenix and views of scholastic journalism issues.

Linda & I had the opportunity to promote the mentoring program at the awards luncheon. Current states – California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin. States joining the program this summer – Alabama, Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, Pemnsylvania, Washington. The program includes dozens of awards and several speeches. We were told to keep […]

California mentoring @ the JEA/NSPA awards luncheon.

Multi-tasking – Wendy told us she was making egg salad from Easter eggs during our meeting but was tuned in for offering ideas. Making egg salad is less distracting than text messaging. Not sure that would be true in f-2-f setting.

Digital Media Committee meets including Wendy Wallace joining us through Skype on Aaron Manfull’s laptop.