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Transforming The Journalism Curriculum. Presentation by Mindy McAdams University of Florida. What we do well now. Teach students how to report and understand the professional norms of the field - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Transforming The Journalism Curriculum
Presentation by Mindy McAdams
University of Florida
What we do well now
Teach students how to report and understand the professional norms of the field
Train them in a specialization (e.g., such as photojournalism, print editing, on-camera reporting for TV)
What we don’t do well now
Teach them how to survive and thrive in the field that journalism is becoming
Our challenges
Our current department structures are not designed to support cross-platform journalism
Our faculty are often not well-versed in multiple platforms, new technologies
Our students might resist, saying “I only want to …”
Our schools lack equipment and facilities, e.g., software, updated labs
Is it an optionto wait
and do nothing?
Possible solutions
Hire one versatile faculty member and set up “convergence” courses
Doesn’t this encourage the same silo mentalities among both students and educators?
Does this prepare the students to “think different”?
If we wantto train students
to think different, then we’ve got to do it
ourselves.
These reasons don’t cut it
“We don’t know how”
“We don’t have equipment”
“We don’t know what they’re doing in these newsrooms”
Video
Video
Example from the Toronto Star
Example from the San Jose Mercury News
And some blogs to keep you well informed …
Angela Grant: In the Circle
Cyndy Green: VideoJournalism
Richard Koci Hernandez: MultimediaShooter
Cade White: Digicade
Databases
Five things you can do now
Assign articles by or about Adrian Holovaty
Study ChicagoCrime.org
Discuss the Naples affordable housing project
Assign a project built with Atlas
Use exercises from NICAR to teach Excel
“The way I see it, there are three basic tasks that journalists do:
1. Gathering information. 2. Distilling information. 3. Presenting information.
‘Doing journalism through computer programming’ is just a different way of accomplishing these goals. Namely, the technique favors automation wherever possible.”
http://www.chicagocrime.org/map/
http://www.naplesnews.com/affordable_housing/search/
http://www.naplesnews.com/affordable_housing/search/
http://www.naplesnews.com/affordable_housing/search/
http://fmatlas.com/atlas2/
http://fmatlas.com/atlas2/
http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/tipsheets.php
Graphics
Los Angeles Times
Another good use for Excel
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Photo
Two issues
Visual skills for all students—not just the photojournalism studentsCompositionRationalesEthics
Editing and formatting photo files for online
http://markhancock.blogspot.com/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/
Magnum in Motion
Audio
Audio is easy and cheap
Microphone handling
Interview techniques
Digital editing (Audacity is free)
Save file as MP3
Use a free audio player to embed the MP3 directly on a Web page
HTML and CSS
Why teach HTML and CSS?
Dreamweaver is not necessarily as useful as HTML and (at least some) CSS
Facebook / MySpace will not help them in a journalism job
It’s a leg up
Ways to introduce HTML and CSS
One solution: Use Blogger (covered in a later session)
Require students to build a simple Web page by hand with HTMLHeadingsLinks Images
Pssst! My own secret
I have usually learned technology that I teach in class less than one week before the first time I taught it
In conclusion
We all need to start now
We are all behind—but we can catch up!
Transforming The Journalism Curriculum
Presentation by Mindy McAdams
University of Florida