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This Mindy McAdams post is from April, but it's worth reading even today.
"I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my own department, to my current preparations to teach journalism at a university in Indonesia, I have been thinking a lot about what students need to learn today.
Here are six proposals in three distinct areas of journalism that are increasingly important today."
"So here’s what I think we could do with students: Assign a different entry to each student in a class and have the student use it as a springboard into an exploration of that subject. So instead of “Write a report about …”, the assignment is to take a report that’s already been written and use it to find examples, exceptions, or even inaccuracies."
"Do not create an interactive timeline just because it’s cool. Use interactivity to make the information more clear."
"These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization."
A project guided by Henry Jenkins of MIT that provides information about new media in a short documentary format. Lots of good cultural stuff here.
Mindy McAdams shares tips for a first lesson in collecting audio
Mindy McAdams starts her students on the video trail with some examples.
Robert Niles offers up suggestions for when you find someone has stolen your content.
The games and tools here at knowthenews.tv will let you know TV news in a new way. (via Len Witt)
"I go to meetings and all I hear is, 'Oh my God, they just keep coming and coming,' " Judy VanSlyke Turk, president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, said of the students. She added, "I'm really not sure they understand h
Yesterday, Rosen shared some ideas about teaching blogging on Poynter. You can view the chat archive at this link. some good stuff there.
"Readers on the web generally scan content, and oftentimes they’re not viewing our content from our websites directly. They are seeing a headline or a summary from a search engine, an RSS feed or some other content aggregator. Therefore, it’s important th
"I’m getting a little bit tired of articles like this one in Inside Higher Ed today that give voice to the following argument: “Some believe journalism schools are exploiting students by maintaining high enrollment levels despite the contraction of the ma
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