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Katy Culver — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:13:46 +0000

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

Provost: ‘Real journalism goes on in journalism classes’

Herbert Lowe — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:19:25 +0000

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

What’s a journalism professor to do when his students miss class to cover March Madness?

Herbert Lowe — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:38:31 +0000

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

How journalism educators can use Coursekit to enhance classroom learning

Kelly Fincham — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:14:49 +0000

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

Should journalism educators ban students from using technology in class?

Katy Culver — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:28:12 +0000

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

4 ways journalism educators are using Storify as a teaching tool

Kelly Fincham — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:40:54 +0000

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

How journalism professors can use screencasts as an effective & efficient teaching tool

Katy Culver — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:50:24 +0000

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

How journalism students benefit from class blogs about values, practices

Katy Culver — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:01:06 +0000

As incidences of checkbook journalism, plagiarism and fabrication spring up, I’m repeatedly struck by the importance of what I teach. It seems we’ve never needed ethical and excellent journalism more than we do now.

I try to… Read more

How class wikis can help journalism students collaborate, stay organized

Katy Culver — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:05:42 +0000

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

How journalism educators can integrate more multimedia into their teaching

Katy Culver — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:05:19 +0000

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