Campfire Journalism notes on teaching interactive storytelling

For the past few years I have used student blogs as a primary format for my introductory online journalism course. Each student selects a topic or beat to cover for the semester and creates a blog dedicated to that subject. Then students report, write, photograph, gather audio, shoot and edit video for Web, and create [...]

No. But apparently I do. My name is Mark Berkey-Gerard. I am a college journalism teacher. I teach online and multimedia journalism courses at Rowan University in Southern New Jersey.  I spend a lot of my day teaching students how to do “techie” things. But my real passion – and my real challenge – is [...]