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26 Aug 09

Good exercise for MUSE students

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24 Aug 09

Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

“On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”

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Mr. Regier sees things evolving fairly rapidly, accelerated by the increasing use of social networking technology. More and more, students will help and teach each other, he said.
But Mr. Regier also thinks online education will continue to make further inroads in transforming college campuses as well.
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- The biggest near-term growth, Mr. Regier predicts, will be in continuing education programs. Today, Arizona State has 5,000 students in its continuing education programs, both through in-person classes and online. In three to five years, he estimates, that number could triple, with nearly all the growth coming online.
- The real promise of online education, experts say, is providing learning experiences that are more tailored to individual students than is possible in classrooms. That enables more “learning by doing,” which many students find more engaging and useful.
- The analysis for the Department of Education found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile. That is a modest but statistically meaningful difference.
- “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”

11 Aug 09

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com

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Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions — or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational games, videos and projects on the Web.
“Teachers need digital resources to find those documents, those blogs, those wikis that get them beyond the plain vanilla curriculum in the textbooks.”
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- In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this summer announced an initiative that would replace some high school science and math texts with free, “open source” digital versions.
- “In five years, I think the majority of students will be using digital textbooks,”
- “We’re still in a brick-and-mortar, 30-students-to-1-teacher paradigm,” Mr. Habermehl said, “but we need to get out of that framework to having 200 or 300 kids taking courses online, at night, 24/7, whenever they want.”
- digital textbooks could widen the gap between rich and poor.
- the online onslaught — and the competition from open-source materials — poses a real threat to traditional textbook publishers.
- The move to open-source materials is well under way in higher education — and may be accelerated by President Obama’s proposal to invest in creating free online courses as part of his push to improve community colleges.

08 Aug 09

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04 Aug 09

Diigo: Beyond Bookmarking…WAY Beyond | Clif's Notes

Use this to demo Diigo to students during the first week of class.

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16 Jul 09

Digital Storytelling

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20 Jun 09

10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media

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professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.
Social media tools are bringing readers to news sites and in many cases are increasing their Web-traffic.
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- email interviews have become regularly used by news reporters. But the same concept can be achieved through a Facebook message or chat, Google Talk, a short exchange via Seesmic (), or one of the most useful apps in a journalist’s arsenal: Skype
- it’s important for students to know how to use real-time searches to gather information and keep up on what is breaking.
- Sreenivasan said searches on social media sites can point journalists to supplementary information for their reporting. These sites can also help in the process of crowdsourced news gathering.
- Social media tools are becoming vital in building source lists. One can track now fairly easily down a source on Facebook or Twitter and send them a message.
- Paul Bradshaw, senior lecturer of online journalism and magazines at Birmingham City University, said the most basic tools that students should know how to use are Wordpress () for blogging and site building, Twitter for live updates, Facebook for posting articles or videos, Delicious () for bookmarking, Flickr () for photos or videos, and YouTube () for video.
- Tools like CoveritLive also include integration with Twitter, Qik for live video, or YouTube pre-recorded videos.
- social media should help journalists do their job and be integrated into their reporting, but not take it over. Content is still king.
- Social networks can be used to build a personal brand that can help students land a reporting gig after college.
- we are all still learning the best practices of social media. Journalism students experimenting with these tools can learn how to apply them once they join the workforce.
- Here are a few tips from Bradshaw for how teachers can encourage social media experimentation:
  
  - Use the tools themselves to teach the class. Use them in any setting possible.
  
  - Do it publicly and socially. For example, Bradshaw paired students up with “Twentors” to help students that were new to Twitter.
  
  - Less talk, more action. Put the students out there and get them using the tools one by one.

10 May 09

Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web

The chapter on objectivity sounds interesting.

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The author, a former journalist and professor, rejects objectivity as impossible for humans and undesirable for journalists. In its place, the book provides a set of rules for judging journalism based on a more accurate, honest and rigorous standard -- empiricism -- the logical assembly of reliable evidence.

09 May 09

Teaching Online Journalism » Multimedia journalism teaching: 10 things I learned

So we're not the only J-school with IT problems that get in the way of teaching.

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One thing spans all our classes, early and late — students often do inadequate reporting. They do one stinking interview and then turn in a story. The good students learn fast that more reporting results in a better story (and a better grade). But the lazy ones keep on whining about their bad grades, when it’s clear as day that they did very little legwork.
Students enrolled in the regular 3-credit reporting course could take an additional 1-credit course in multimedia reporting.
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- Students enrolled in the regular 3-credit reporting course could take an additional 1-credit course in multimedia reporting.
- The idea is that we don’t need to teach them reporting techniques, such as interviewing, in the 1-credit tools course (because they are getting that in the 3-credit course), but the students do complete journalistic reporting assignments, using audio recorders and cameras. They are required to own their equipment
- The structure of the course is very simple and direct: Learn audio gathering and editing, then photo composition and ethics, produce a photo slideshow with audio, and finally, produce a video story.
- Students have tremendous difficulty understanding what a story is, and what stories are not journalistic.
- File management is a huge challenge in this course. What worked well was requiring them to hand in preliminary work (e.g., raw audio files) each and every week — this forces them not to wait until the last minute.
- What worked poorly was file saving on our college’s network drives, file naming, and also handing in CDs
- Providing printable PDFs instead of printed paper handouts works well.
- Showing examples that are truly journalistic — and explaining why they are journalistic — makes a big difference.
- The syllabus, including all assignments, is here.
  The students’ Soundslides are here.
  The students’ videos are here.
- I’ve been toying with the idea of using Box.net to get around the poor technology issues within the university.
- Re: Box.net - They say we can:
  
  “Create hundreds of accounts instantly by importing a list of users from Excel. Assign variable user privileges from ‘view only’ to full editing rights.” (View PDF for info.)
  
  I don’t know about your IT folks there, but I could not get this kind of support or flexibility here.
- What I really wish is that reporting classes would integrate audio and video from the earlier stages
- But I think also they are confused by learning the straight news formats and then trying to adapt to visual storytelling, which is more of a narrative style. Inverted pyramid is not the same “shape” as beginning-middle-end.

30 Apr 09

Best Embeds for Educational Wikis and Blogs | Making Teachers Nerdy

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29 Apr 09

End the University as We Know It - Op-Ed Mark C. Taylor - NYTimes.com

This guy is totally on target. But short of sending our universities into bankruptcy, like GM, I don't see it happening ... unless a few smart institutions start, and force the rest to follow suit or die (kind of like the web and newspapers).

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GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand
The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn’t conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That’s one of the main reasons we still encourage people to enroll in doctoral programs.
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- The other obstacle to change is that colleges and universities are self-regulating or, in academic parlance, governed by peer review. While trustees and administrations theoretically have some oversight responsibility, in practice, departments operate independently.
- If American higher education is to thrive in the 21st century, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured.
- The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network. Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.
- It would be far more effective to bring together people working on questions of religion, politics, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, literature, art, religion and philosophy to engage in comparative analysis of common problems.
- Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs.
- Increase collaboration among institutions. All institutions do not need to do all things and technology makes it possible for schools to form partnerships to share students and faculty.
- Transform the traditional dissertation.
- For many years, I have taught undergraduate courses in which students do not write traditional papers but develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games. Graduate students should likewise be encouraged to produce “theses” in alternative formats.
- Impose mandatory retirement and abolish tenure. Initially intended to protect academic freedom, tenure has resulted in institutions with little turnover and professors impervious to change.
- Tenure should be replaced with seven-year contracts, which, like the programs in which faculty teach, can be terminated or renewed. This policy would enable colleges and universities to reward researchers, scholars and teachers who continue to evolve and remain productive while also making room for young people with new ideas and skills.
- Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia

20 Apr 09

J-Schools Play Catchup - NYTimes.com

As macloo notes, "NYT story on teaching new media in J-Schools is big on problems, short on solutions."

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today’s journalism students don’t enroll to hear, in Mr. McGuire’s words, “old newspaper farts telling them that the business is doomed.”
“They know the model is broken,” he says. “They think, We’ll just have to fix it.” And so he started this semester by outlining an intimidating theme for the course: “How do we pay for journalism?”
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- The American Journalism Review estimates that 15 percent of the nation’s newspaper newsroom jobs were lost in 2008
- The changes are forcing colleges and universities to rethink what a journalism education should look like. The perennial debate about journalism programs — theoretical teaching versus professional skill building — has been displaced by more urgent questions: How can you help students find sustainable business models, while introducing the formerly verboten subject of the business side? What are the implications for the craft of journalism in the shift to digital? And how do you position students for an uncertain future in the media?
- “Newsrooms have tended to be highly inflexible; innovation was not encouraged,”
- The required-reading list in Mr. McGuire’s senior-level class is telling. It includes Romenesko, a blog that many reporters and editors start and end the day with, and, more notably, Mashable, a blog about social networking that is equally influential in technology circles.
- Public relations students take many of the same classes as broadcast and print journalists, which inspires some gallows humor in the hallways. Ms. Aalmo recently printed out a poster and hung it in her apartment. It says: “Want stability in journalism? Get a job in P.R.”
- It is instilled in students like Ms. Riel that the decline in mainstream media provides an opportunity. Talking about the gaps in local coverage that suddenly exist in Phoenix and elsewhere, Mr. McGuire imparts, “Your opportunity is going to be to find those holes and fill them.”
- Fundamentally, J-schools are about teaching students how to be storytellers, says Tom Fiedler, the dean of the College of Communication at Boston University. He subscribes to the philosophy that “it’s the soup and not the bowl that provides the nourishment we need.” He adds: “We want to teach our students to make a great soup. What they serve it in matters little.”

07 Apr 09

Are J-Schools Today Taking the Wrong Approach?

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many journalism schools seem to be missing the point of the digital revolution and, as a result, are short-changing their students.
while the recent recession has not been kind to print media, Web news organizations haven't fared much better
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- Journalism schools seem to be under the impression that Web savviness is synonymous with a technical mastery, and are top-loading course loads with classes on coding and production.
- Web platforms come and go, and no coding language stays in vogue more than a few of years. Basic reporting, writing, and editing skills will never be obsolete.
- If I were hiring a Web editor, my first interview questions would not be what programming languages they know, but what their strategies are for reaching out to blogs, improving SEO, and getting stories on Digg.
- If I was a J-school dean, I'd offer classes on social media and blog outreach (something that is severely lacking from most J-schools), and teach students how to expand and adapt existing print stories for the Web.

17 Mar 09

Why teach journalism if newspapers are dying? a Since You Asked column by Cary Tennis | Salon Life

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I feel like I'm teaching them something that will be as useful as Sanskrit when they graduate.
Journalists find things out and tell people about it.
If you are teaching your students how to do that, you are not only doing your job, you are giving them the gift of a lifetime.
It is not your job to guarantee them stable employment.
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- I do not think it is such a terrible thing that your journalism students are entering an uncertain world. It's the kind of world that is ripe for enterprising journalists. It is the kind of world that needs to be reported on and explained.
- Teach them how to find out what is true and what is hidden, and how to say it so others can understand what it means and why it is important. Then you will have done your job and given them the gift of a lifetime.

03 Mar 09

Kids Prefer Veggies With Cool Names

Research shows that names matter. It's why asking students to create a "bucket list" works better than asking them to develop a four-year plan.

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In a new study, 186 four-year-olds were given regular carrots and, on other lunch days, they were given the same vegetables renamed X-ray Vision Carrots. On the latter days, they ate nearly twice as many.
"Cool names can make for cool foods,"
says lead author Brian Wansink of Cornell University. "Whether it be
'power peas' or 'dinosaur broccoli trees,' giving a food a fun name
makes kids think it will be more fun to eat. And it seems to keep
working - even the next day,"
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- Similar results have been found with adults.

23 Feb 09

More Life, Less Trade - TIME

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U.S. journalism schools are improving these
days because they are teaching less journalism. At both graduate and
undergraduate levels, the schools are stressing the liberal arts and
down playing the techniques of the trade.
As journalism schools have expanded, they have grown uneasy with even
the name journalism. Many now call themselves schools of
"communications" and try to deal with the broad spectrum of human
dialogue. Stanford's Department of Communication, for example, has
added courses called "Government and the Mass Media" and "Ethics in the
Mass Media" to stimulate students' thinking about their work in the
wider context of society.
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- As they have received a better, broader education, many journalism
  students now set their sights on careers in other fields. Enrollment at
  118 major U.S. journalism schools has more than doubled over the past
  nine years to 24,445; yet a declining percentage of graduates go into
  journalism—less than 45% last year. Careers in business, government,
  public relations or advertising offer better salaries as a rule and
  more promising future prospects.

21 Feb 09

Tell Us Your Story -- San Jose Rocks

100W profile project? MCom 96 project?

"Whether it's a story about one of our inductees or someone you'd like to see inducted. The greater San Jose Silicon Valley area is rich with contributions to rock 'n' roll by bands, musicians, writers, rock promoters, teachers, radio personalities, business leaders, inventors, music venues and technologists with roots here."

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Whether it's a story about one of our
inductees or someone you'd like to see inducted. The greater San Jose
Silicon Valley area is rich with contributions to rock ‘n’ roll by
bands, musicians, writers, rock promoters, teachers, radio
personalities, business leaders, inventors, music venues and
technologists with roots here. If you have photos, recordings, film
or other memorabilia you'd consider loaning or donating to History
San Jose, let us know that too.

01 Feb 09

Teaching Online Journalism » A few words about digital audio recorders

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22 Jan 09

Media Education Lab: University-community partnership for media literacy under the direction of Renee Hobbs: : Copyright and Fair Use

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