By Mindy McAdams
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As I’ve been writing about j-school curriculum here this week, I’ve also been pondering methods that work well in teaching. This is my 10th year as a professor (crazy!), and like most college educators, I learned on the job.
The best way to learn is by doing. That’s what I’ve concluded, and I know it’s not [...]
I struggle with how to teach data reporting. I want to give the students an introduction to how to do it, and how to make it work online (conceptually, for the audience, I mean), but I only have four weeks. I want to make sure what I give them has a practical application, but I [...]
Please help me with this. In my college, we’ve been working on a list. Rather than a vague list of skills, we’re trying to write what we would expect the student to be able to do. You know — actually DO. So here’s the starter package, which addresses cross-platform concerns:
Write a 12-inch story (400–450 words) [...]
It’s hard to believe I have never before written a blog post about using Delicious.com, but that appears to be so.
Delicious (also known as del.icio.us) is a tool I’ve been using for a long time to keep up with information overload. It completely replaced my Firefox bookmarks (IE favorites) a while ago.
The new post I [...]
Vin Crosbie, a longtime consultant to newspapers, accepted a one-year teaching appointment at Syracuse University last year and recently re-upped for a second tour of duty. In a blog post titled Life Aboard an Academic Supercarrier, he provides his outline for a course called New Media Business. Here’s a stripped-down version:
Introduction / The Internet Timeline
Digital [...]
There’s more to this brave new world of journalism than technology skills.
Business sense will play a large role in the rest of your career, whether you are a journalism student or a seasoned veteran.
If journalism students graduate without an understanding of how editorial, business, and technology work together, “you have not prepared them for the [...]
From the Online News Association conference:
If academics want to play a leading role in “research and development” for the news industry, he [Paul Volpe, the deputy politics editor at washingtonpost.com] said we needed to be the ones to identify market needs and build the solutions.
Report from Ryan Thornburg.
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