Archive for the 'teaching' Category
The Google Model of Library Use?
I’m not going to get a fully fledged blog post written this week – on what is normally designated my “blogging afternoon” on my calendar – because of a looming conference deadline, a laptop crash and piles of grading. So, this week, I give you some photos and some questions.
I recently picked up some books [...]
Filed under: books, csuf, education, library, teaching | Closed
Tags: google, library, print, student, users
On-demand magazine publishing is making it possible for new publishers to expand into the medium. Low-cost, efficient and environmentally sound options are now available.
Filed under: journalism, magazines, print, publishing, teaching, technology | Closed
Tags: magazines, mediashift, on demand, print, publishing
Teaching Personal Branding
Students may need to consider the concept of personal branding. But what conflicts and potential ethical problems does this introduce?
Filed under: journalism, mcj10, teaching | Closed
Tags: careers, jobs, journalism student, marketing, personal branding, students
I’ve been investigating a few online services that seem like they’d be a good fit for the courses I teach. I’ve put Ning, Slideshare and Twitter to work this semester and am pleased with how they’re panning out. I know my students and I will figure out even better ways to use them in the [...]
Filed under: journalism, social media, teaching | Closed
Tags: collaboration, journalism education, technology
Do You Believe in Facebook?
I had some fun asking a new discussion question to my introductory mass communication class last week: “Do you believe in Facebook?”
Not in Facebook’s business model, nor its overall success as a concept. Not in whether it was addictive or not (though the consensus was that yes, it’s addictive). Rather, did the students believe in [...]
Filed under: social media, teaching | Closed
Tags: facebook, ideology, media literacy, social media
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What I’m Reading- The Best of Journalism (2009)A "running list of the best journalism" the author read in 2009. Many great examples here, and hours and hours of reading!
- Steve Coll: What I ReadThis series of "What I Read" columns fits nicely with our discussion of the "media diet" and the students' "media log" assignment in our MCJ 1 introductory course. Everyone has a media diet, after all; what does yours look like?
- Don't confuse them with facts"...we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth. We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voices that do not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe."
- Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphedIs Google "making us stupid"? Or "shift[ing] the emphasis of our intelligence"? Or have we just changed with every new medium - all the way back to Gutenberg? An interesting discussion of this contentious issue, with some connections to our discussion in class yesterday about the role of information in contemporary society.
- I lifted (but attributed) most of this post on plagiarism Pursuing the Complete Community ConnectionGreat tips on avoiding plagiarism from Steve Buttry.
- Covering the Decade in Magazine CoversA video showing 92 notable magazine covers. What is it about magazine covers that makes them so memorable and significant to us?
- A Case For Digital Media Literacy: Tracking Down A Meme WiredPen
- Magazines: Cheaper Subscriptions May Not Win New Subscribers - Advertising Age - MediaWorksMakes sense to me; a couple of good comments on this piece strike closer to the heart of the matter, though.
- Arguments for government subsidies for journalism: weak and inconsistent Pursuing the Complete Community ConnectionShould the government provide subsidies to help journalism survive? Steve Buttry discusses McChesney/Nichols' arguments in their recent book.
- No ads, no newsstand, no problem: first issue of WoW magConvergence, community, and new magazine business models, all in one case study - the new World of Warcraft magazine. Cool.
- The Best of Journalism (2009)
