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All teachers need to be using AI
Those who know me know I love “Jurassic Park.” I have since I was a kid. Part of my fascination was the dinosaurs. What kid doesn’t have a favorite dinosaur?! (Mine’s the triceratops since you’re asking.) They didn’t scare me. In fact, my grandmother always said when I turned the movie on, I would say,…
Q&A with Student Journalists
One of the first things I tell my students when they start my photojournalism course is: “This is not just taking a picture.” Anyone can hit the shutter release. Operating a DSLR with skill and then editing those photos, is MUCH harder than anyone realizes. Take the difficulty of that, combined with moving images, audio,…
Loom provides nice screen recording solution to teach journalism concepts
When the pandemic struck in early 2020, I was at a loss for how to teach students such a hands-on topic like journalism, design and photography. Someone, who is now lost to history, was wise enough to lead me onto Loom – a free screen recording software. Loom has many other competitors in the screen…
Interview podcasting: when gab isn’t the gift
Knowing when to cut down banter proves a tough challenge in audio recording The most recent episode of Green Around the Quills, I hosted my first guest: Leigh Anne Treistman, my coworker and newest adviser to Caney Creek Student Media. As an adviser out of her first full year of experience, she had a fresh…
Making a podcast: Green Around the Quills
Creating podcast proves to be engaging, fun challenge As a freshman at Sam Houston State University, I knew I was dead set on being a print journalist. In high school, I was editor of the school paper and jumped into the college newspaper The Houstonian before my first day of classes. The longer school went…
In with the old, in with the new
Mobile world isn’t killing journalism, but presenting new form “When I was a kid…”, then insert some reminiscence about the limitations of television channels, only having radio, or the ear-splitting squelch of dial up internet. “Back in my day…” Generation after generation the world has supposedly gotten worse with the invention of every new version…
Mobile journalism creates potential golden age of journalism
The height of beauty, knowledge and power – nothing says more about social media and the digital realm more than J. R. R. Tolkien’s description of the elves.
What is the difference between a good and bad quote?
One of the core tenants of journalism is providing a voice for the voiceless. The majority of our readers are not in power and have no inherent way to change the world by themselves. The media provides those people, the vast majority, a place to have their voice heard. Let’s make it count.
I am a new adviser and afraid: 5 pieces of advice
As someone who recently escaped the dreaded first three years teaching, here are five tips I have for anyone that newly took over a journalism advising program.
How do I take my photographer from just OK to amazing?
When a third-year photographer asked me how she could be a “great photographer,” I was at a loss. Here is what a set of amazing teachers and pros suggested.
What do I have to add?
Journalism is one of the oldest professions. People have always needed information from the Roman tablets to the modern-day, web superhighway. So what does a still-relatively-green journalism adviser have to add to the ether? Frankly, just my thoughts. But that’s OK. That’s all anyone has to give.
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