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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Documentary Film Institute at the University of Florida is interested in getting publicity for its program and the documentaries that the graduate students and the faculty in the program produce. However, this year, a documentary could be made about the Documentary Institute itself. The latest issue is about one of the four documentaires produced […]
A New York Times story raises the issue that we teaching college students discuss with the students — How much of your personal life should you be disclosing online? “The Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline” starts with the story of Min Liu, a college student at the New School in New York City. […]
The subject line of the e-mail read: “I got an internship!” I clicked and read that one of the students in my Writing for Mass Communication lab was writing to let me know she had gotten an internship with Sony Music Entertainment — and that the intership was paid. Not only is it great news […]
Forty years ago, during Vietnam War protests at Kent State University, National Guard troops were called in to control the student protesters. Members of the National Guard opened fire, killing four and wounding nine others. Few were part of the protest. One of the murdered students was walking to class. The events of the day […]
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 […]
I couldn’t hear the clock ticking, but I was reminded of the passing of time as Century Tower chimed every 15 minutes. The deadline was getting closer for having the students’ last lab assignment graded and ready to return. I’d told the students that their materials would be ready for pickup at 3 p.m. today. […]
Julie Dodd 