The selected wait Hundreds of students were in the O’Connell Center yesterday to meet recruiters for jobs and internships. Today, only a few students are at the O Dome — those selected for interviews.
Instead of students in orange and blue in the O’Connell Center, hundreds of students in dark suits were lined up to talk with perspective employers about internships and jobs. More than 250 businesses participated in UF’s Career Showcase.
Today is the Presidential inauguration. You have a class today. Should you: (A) Cancel class. (B) Hold class but use most of the class time for the class to watch the inauguration. (C) Teach class as you had planned but include the Obama Inauguration as part of your lesson. (D) Go on with class as […]
Historic moment Where to watch this historic event? A colleague and I joined the other dining patrons at the Copper Monkey in watching the inauguration — and having lunch. I took this photo of Fox’s coverage with my iPhone and then e-mailed it to my Tumblr blog right from the booth as I ate quiche […]
On deadline — Today was the first writing lab of the semester for my lab students. After an interview and introduction activity and a team grammar review, they were on deadline on a writing assignment.
During our meeting at Poynter we discussed how the media is changing, how media consumers are changing, how our students are changing, and how our teaching is changing. Traditional newspaper reading is declining and newspapers themselves are decreasing in size or circulation or scope. We’re all reading online — on computers and mobile devices. Newspaper […]
A highlight of attending the SJD mid-winter meeting was being able to share the experience with some of my UF graduate students. Left to right: Vanessa Bravo, Kara Murrhee, me, Paige Madsen and Karla Kennedy. We’re in one of the wonderful outdoor areas of the Poynter. (Photo by Paul Murrhee)
Feedback and questions are part of the learning with panel presentations.
How are scholastic journalism organizations incorporating digital media into contests? Panelist Cheryl Pell discussed how the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association has moved registration to Web from booklet mailing.
The Going Green and Digital panel discussed how to encourage youth readership and what cuts to NIE programs will mean about classes using newspapers.
Julie Dodd 