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Blogs provide way for high school media advisers to help their staffs create an online presence
How can high school media teachers more effectively use technology in their teaching and advising? That’s the question colleague Judy Robinson and I will be helping our class of high school media teachers decide in a grad course we’re teaching this week at Indiana University. Judy and I taught a teaching with technology class at […]
2010 Associated Press Stylebook makes important additions about social media
Finally. No longer Web site but website. The inclusion of 42 entries on terms like unfriend, RSS, smart phone and search engine optimization. The Associated Press Stylebook continues to move into the reality of key parts of life with the 2010 edition. The AP news release highlights the changes in the 2010 edition. You can order […]
UF Student Government provides Tutor Matching Service
Facebook may be helping improve the quality of learning at the University of Florida. According to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, students at UF can use a Facebook application to find tutors to help them in their studies. The students can search for tutors by subject and can find out rates and […]
Virtual-TA program provides outsourced grading
The headline of the Chronicle of Higher Education story caught my attention: “Outsourced Grading, With Supporters and Critics, Comes to College.” I was reading the Chronicle’s e-mailed list of headlines, and I clicked on this story. For teachers of subjects like writing, grading seems like a relentless part of the educational process. Students need to […]
Students use blog assignment to discuss course assignments and their own media consumption
I am grading at 25,000 feet. I’m flying back to Gainesville on a Delta Wi-Fi flight. With 4 1/2 hours in the air and students’ blogs to grade, Wi-Fi grading seemed like a good use of my time and of Delta’s GoGo wireless system. I’m enjoying reading my students’ blogs. They’ve been blogging for seven […]
I could be wireless grading @ 25,000 feet
I’m up in the air, literally. Flying to a convention in Portland, Oregon For $7.95, I could be on Delta’s GoGo wireless network, grading this week’s lab assignment — blogs. The class has been blogging for seven weeks, posting at least once a week. At the start of the assignment, only two of my 20 […]
CliffsNotes App can make it so easy for students to avoid reading the classics
The last time I saw CliffsNotes, I was teaching high school English. CliffsNotes were the yellow and black booklets that were designed to help students gain the information needed about a novel in order to pass a test or write an essay without having to actually read the book itself. I lost track of CliffsNotes […]
Small group activities in class promote active learning
Almost every teacher for almost every course has that feeling of having more to include in a class period and in a course than can be accomplished. The tendency can be to “cover” the material. You as the teacher list and explain the important concepts. You click through the PowerPoint slides. Perhaps you stop from […]
Detroit Free Press goes to e-Edition to save newsroom resources
In the Q&A session following Paul Anger’s acceptance speech, he was asked about the Detroit Free Press new business model. All of us attending the awards presentation — media professionals, journalism faculty, journalism students — were interested in the topic of new models for financing newspapers. The Detroit Free Press has an e-Edition that replaces […]
Julie Dodd 