Poynter’s News University and the Broadcast Education Association are trying to create the world’s largest online database of journalism and communication teaching materials. The project launched a few weeks ago and currently contains about 100 resources. The syllabus exchange works on a point system. For every resource submitted (i.e., syllabus, class exercise, assignment, handout, case [...]
I recently finished my second year of teaching online journalism to undergraduate students. For me, that means that I have reached a point where I am not perpetually scrambling to prepare for the next class period and have an occasional moment to reflect on how and when some “education” might be taking place. As I [...]
NOTE: I have updated the list below and put it in a permanent spot on my Tutorials Page. — I read through my course evaluations from last semester and in addition to comments like “he’s long-winded, but nice enough,” a number of students gave high marks to the free Web tutorials I assigned in my [...]
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis Planet Google by Randall Stross Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World by Charlie Beckett
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 [...]
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