Teaching Journalism
Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach new and emerging trends in journalism? Here, Mary McGuire has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:
- Blogging
- Social media
- Multimedia storytelling
- Data visualization
A U.S. journalism educator shares his ideas about how to teach students to provide live coverage via Twitter with tweets that are not just relevant, timely, accurate and interesting but that are complete sentences, provide attribution and follow journalistic style for grammar, spelling and punctuation.
A conference at the Unviersity of Maryland in October will bring journalism educators together to discuss how well they are adapting their programs to the changes happening in newsrooms and journalism.
Journalism educators may want to teach social media tools but often find it difficult given they are required to use clunky online systems for grading and communicating with students.
In a post published on Mediashift, a multimedia journalism educator Nathan Gibbs says, "These awkward systems don't inspire creativity, enrich collaboration, or instill a passion for experimentation -- all of which are required to survive and succeed in a rapidly changing media industry."
But Gibbs has some useful suggestions about the innovative ways some journalism professors are using social media tools in the classroom. Not every tool is appropriate for every class, but, he says, there are undoubtedly ways in which most instructors can find room for at least some of these ideas.
The students Wayne MacPhail sees know practically nothing about the online world or emerging media; their journalistic training reaches only a tentative few feet beyond the same traditional media it always has. He thinks that j-school training needs to be something more.
Two U.S. J-schools are mixing computer science and journalism to create a new breed of programmer-journalists. Craig Silverman reports. A Ryerson journalism instructor is teaching his students how to be mobile journalists with a little help from Motorola and Telus.
Last year, Wayne MacPhail found the students in his class had a mix of different devices. This year, however, they will now be able to use the same devices to post audio, video, images and text to the web.
In this piece on The Next Web, Tris Hussey also describes how the students will do their reporting from local coffee shops.
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