Katy Culver
Apr. 20, 2012
10:13 am
My students were recently on spring break, but that didn’t slow them in their march to improve my teaching through social media.
At one point, a student in my intro course tweeted:

He highlighted an ethics case I’d completely… Read more
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Herbert Lowe
Mar. 26, 2012
7:19 am
As journalist in residence and a graduate student in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University in Milwaukee, I seek chances to match coursework with reporting and academic pursuits. This week’s assignment in my Humanistic Theories and Methods of… Read more
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Herbert Lowe
Mar. 23, 2012
3:38 pm
This is a story about a journalism instructor dealing with journalism students missing journalism classes so that they can do journalism. Two undergraduates skipped my classes in Milwaukee — as well as those of their other professors — so they… Read more
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Kelly Fincham
Mar. 9, 2012
1:14 pm
Coursekit is a new learning management system aimed at professors who want something more than the traditional Blackboard experience. Some journalism professors call the free site — which integrates social media and course content — a Facebook for… Read more
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Katy Culver
Jan. 13, 2012
9:28 am
A friend and fellow educator sent a shock through my system last week. He told me he was so frustrated by rude and distracted behavior on digital devices in his journalism labs that he imposes a ban on laptops, tablets… Read more
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Kelly Fincham
Nov. 18, 2011
11:40 am
More and more news sites have been using Storify to capture reaction and highlight interesting discussions taking place on social networks. And journalism educators have also started using it — to create multimedia course content, organize handouts and teach… Read more
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Katy Culver
Oct. 21, 2011
10:50 am
I have an essential equation for using technology in my teaching.
My time creating content with a tech tool + students’ time using that content + the cost of the tech tool = a demonstrable positive result.
I’m a tech… Read more
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Katy Culver
July 1, 2011
12:01 am
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Katy Culver
June 20, 2011
12:05 am
A few semesters ago, a student stopped by my office with her laptop because she had broken the links between a slideshow file and the images in it.
Easy fix, I thought. Locate the folder of images and relink it.… Read more
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Katy Culver
Jan. 31, 2011
12:05 am
Every teacher knows that pit-of-the-stomach moment when you head into a new term and ask yourself the tough question: What can I be doing to make this course better? The nerves accompany the question because more work always seems to… Read more
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