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On Fire at Journalism Education Conference

10/31/2011

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As someone who teaches digital media to college students, I eagerly awaited Journalism Interactive: The Conference on Journalism Education & Digital Media. Told my Digital Journalism II class to expect to be set on fire from all that I might discover at the two-day event this past weekend at the University of Maryland.

I figured 60 to 100 journalism educators would join me on Friday and Saturday. Wrong! More than 400 people from more than 120 institutions attended. By all accounts, it was a worthwhile trip and job well done by the conference committee; the host, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and its corporate partner, publisher SAGE/CQ Press.

I won't even to try to capture all that I learned from the 75 or so great speakers in a single blog post. Hoping to share a few related posts soon. A couple of highlights, though, readily come to mind: "Emerging Tech Trends for Academia," by multimedia guru Amy Web, CEO of Webbmedia Group, and "The Social Media Teacher's Toolkit" by Jeff Cutler, social media trainer for the Society of Professional Journalists' Newsroom Training Program.

Another highlight: the Teach-a-Thon, featuring 14 journalism educators – shout out to Craig Herndon, Andrew Lih, Ed Madison and Stacy Spaulding – who each had a few minutes to share fantastic ideas and techniques they employ in their classrooms. You can find the Teach-a-Thon resources here. Indeed, their presentations are among the archived videos of those sessions streamed live during the conference.

It impressed me that some of my students back at Marquette University spent time following the conference via Twitter – even on a Saturday morning! "Loving these tweets from@herbertlowe at #jiconf. I feel like I'm there," @becca_french tweeted. @katie__doherty, a self-described "overachiever," ended up engaging Burt Herman, CEO and co-founder of Storify, after I had tweeted he was on a panel. (My #JOUR1100 and #JOUR1550 students each did their own Storify after live-tweeting the university's recent presidential inauguration. Here are my Storifys.)

From Katie: @herbertlowe Tell @burtherman I'm liking the new @Storify as I work on NY latest live-tweeting project. 

From Burt: @herbertlowe @katie__doherty Thanks for the kind words and please let us know your suggestions!

From Katie: @burtherman @herbertlowe You're welcome. @Storify has become a great tool for young journalists to utilize in the classroom.

Well, that's all for now. Like I said, more posts stemming from this great conference to come soon.

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With Burt Herman, CEO and co-founder of Storify, after a media entrepreneurship panel at the Journalism Interactive conference.
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Heather Ronaldson
11/1/2011 02:25:32 am

Sounds like a really informative and engaging conference. How cool that Burt Herman tweeted back!

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Olivia Morrissey
1/18/2012 09:18:19 am

This sounds like a really interesting conference. I like the shout-out links for the speakers you found particularly engaging, so your readers can look them up right from the post.

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Shoshauna Schmidt
1/18/2012 01:02:58 pm

I, too, enjoyed the links for the speakers and also the students' thoughts via twitter.

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Tess Quinlan
1/18/2012 11:41:11 am

The picture at the top of the blog post caught my eye and I wanted to read more immediately. Once I got further into the post, I liked how the image of the tweets broke up the story and made it easier to read.

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Joe Kvartunas
1/18/2012 03:55:57 pm

It sounds like it was a lot of fun. The University of Maryland has always had a pretty well respected journalism program, so its not surprising that they would be able set up such a great conference.

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