Go to work for 10 or 12 or 15 weeks without any pay. Give up your ability to work full-time and save money for the coming school year. Pay rent in two places, if you can’t sublet your costly university-town apartment. And — oh, yeah — pay for three academic credits (at full price) at [...]
Let’s think about programming today. Or scripting, if you will. To go beyond static pages of text and images online, you will need at least a little programming. One reason why I advocate for everyone to learn at least a little is that if you bog down your newsroom’s expert programmer with too many trivial [...]
Many parents today want their children to complete a university education. They see a bachelor’s degree as a necessity in the information economy (or, as it’s also been called, the network economy). That certainly is true in the sense that a bachelor’s degree is a requirement for most white-collar jobs, including an entry-level job at [...]
The memo from Columbia j-school dean Nick Lemann has been discussed by several people already (see for example Charlie Beckett and Jeff Jarvis) — but it’s so incredibly long, even more remains to be said. The most important change in our skills-oriented Master of Science program has been adjusting its curriculum in response to the [...]
If you are a journalism educator who has ever said, “I do not know how to teach this new multimedia stuff,” this is for you. Rachele Kanigel, an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, attended the Poynter seminar for journalism educators last week, and she posted daily summaries to her blog, The [...]
Martin Stabe zeroes in on a conundrum that journalism educators face: … teaching journalism students to build simple static websites is a bit odd: For most journalists, it is a pretty useless skill because no site they will ever work on will demand this of them. And for those who want to build or maintain [...]
I’m off to Poynter to serve as guest faculty at the seminar titled Multimedia Journalism for College Educators. As always, I have posted my links and materials. I’ll be presenting three sessions: Transforming the Journalism Curriculum How to Use Blogs in Teaching Hands-on Flash for Beginners