Curriculum Issues in the Age of the New Media is the topic for discussion with Sara Quinn, Poynter Institute faculty. Sara asked us: Can you can hang your hopes on one person — that new multimedia hire? Do you think you’re going to have that one course that will take care of multimedia instruction? How […]
“If you remove one comment from a blog, are you libel for the other comments on your blog?” We turned to Mark Goodman, Knight Chair of Scholastic Journalism at Kent State. No, he said. You may even edit a comment as long as you don’t change the intent of the comment.
Mindy said that comments on blogs cause concern for newspapers. But she said that doesn’t have to be a concern: You can delete any comment — it’s your blog. Do not delete a comment only because it disagrees with what you wrote. Read comments often. Respond often. Do not respond to every comment. I agree […]
Mindy encourages us to help students learn how to use links in their blogs. Not too many links — less is more. No obvious links — avoid links to well-known Web sites. No paid links, as you’ll lose the readers’ trust. Only links that have real value to readers, which increases your own credibility. Fact […]
When Mindy gave Jamie Gumbrecht as an example of a good blogger, Cheryl Pell perked up. Jamie is a grad of Michigan State, where Cheryl is on the faculty. Cheryl had her iPhone at hand and sent a tweet about Jamie.
Mindy McAdams stressed that all journalism students should know how to blog — and should have an active blog — by the time they graduate. That’s because most who are going to be hired for a newspaper job are expected to know how to blog. Here are some tips about writing for blogs: Short posts […]
Great to be here at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies for the AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division midwinter meeting. Our division has been fortunate to have Poynter as our meeting location for more than 10 years. Our group consists of journalism educators who have some kind of connection with high school journalism/media. We do research […]
Happy New Year! The start of a new year and a new semester is a good time for those of us in education — as teachers, students or administrators — to reflect on the previous year/semester and make resolutions for improvement. So here are a few suggestions. 1. Be willing to make some changes. This […]
The latest issue of the College’s alumni magazine, Communigator, prompted several former students to contact me to ask what the status is on the new center — the Center for Media Innovation and Research (CMIR). The cover story is on the center. [I’d provide a link but the magazine isn’t online yet.] Most of us […]
The teaching team and I met during Reading Days to debrief from this semester and plan for next semester. I asked each of the lab instructors to share a highlight from their teaching this semester. The major theme for most of them was feeling more comfortable teaching the course. For almost everyone, this was the […]
Julie Dodd 