"Teach it!" That was our mantra during "Teachapalooza," the amazing three-day conference for journalism educators this past weekend at the Poynter Institute in Florida. Sixty college educators from across the country and Canada heard newsroom executives tell us what they want their new hires to know, and learned from Poynter faculty how to better integrate social media and multimedia into our teaching. We also learned new tools for gathering the story, how to tell one story seven ways and the "10 Commandments for Video Storytelling." And we focused on helping students navigate ethical landmines, envisioning the curriculum of the future, mobile journalism and the digital divide.
Several attendees offered terrific 10-minute "show-and-share" lessons during lunchtime on Friday and Saturday, including a rubric for grading tweets, using smartphones for newsgathering, using black sports history to teach storytelling, students blogging about food, getting students to better know their syllabus and a digital literacy project. I had the honor of presenting a show-and-share on "Using Storify and Twitter for Good Not Evil."
Having also attended the "Teaching the Craft of Writing (in the Age of Twitter)" session at Poynter in May, I expected that "Teachapalooza" would better prepare me for my multimedia journalism courses in the fall. But I could not have imagined that I could learn so much in just three days. I think Lisa Taylor, an instructor from Ryerson University in Toronto, put it best when she could learn more only if she had an external hard drive attached to her head. Click here to access the best of the weekend's offerings via Poynter's News University.
Several attendees offered terrific 10-minute "show-and-share" lessons during lunchtime on Friday and Saturday, including a rubric for grading tweets, using smartphones for newsgathering, using black sports history to teach storytelling, students blogging about food, getting students to better know their syllabus and a digital literacy project. I had the honor of presenting a show-and-share on "Using Storify and Twitter for Good Not Evil."
Having also attended the "Teaching the Craft of Writing (in the Age of Twitter)" session at Poynter in May, I expected that "Teachapalooza" would better prepare me for my multimedia journalism courses in the fall. But I could not have imagined that I could learn so much in just three days. I think Lisa Taylor, an instructor from Ryerson University in Toronto, put it best when she could learn more only if she had an external hard drive attached to her head. Click here to access the best of the weekend's offerings via Poynter's News University.
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