Category: Education
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Mass Commons Meeting Tonight
Hey SJSU/JMC Graduate students – tonight’s the second meeting/get-together/exercise-in-socialiazation known as the Mass Commons group. Stop by the Mission Ale House on Santa Clara & 3rd Street after 6pm Friday night and look for the folks reading Communications Policy and the Public Interest. [Ed. note: we won’t be reading.] We’ll be talking, eating, drinking, and…
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Hey professor, love your podcast
New York Newsday reports that Purdue University has climbed aboard the make your lectures available as podcasts train. This is perhaps the most obvious way to use podcasts in the classroom: let students who miss a class catch up with the lecture by listening to it. Professors worry, and rightfully so, that without the direct…
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So what was this about anyway?
A Canadian J-School student asks about the purpose of journalism in the context of trying to nail down which elements of print carry over to the online medium. He chooses “to hold the powerful to account” as his top priority, but I’m not so sure. For me, it’s something like “to tell truths that wouldn’t…
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Information is not in itself harmful…
As an addendum to a comment I left on a post this morning by Prof. Dunleavy, here’s a bit of Harry Blackmun from Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976). “There is, of course, an alternative to this highly paternalistic approach. That alternative is to assume that this…
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Scripps J-School at Ohio University Online Magazine
I’m listening to a short podcast about speakeasymag.com, the Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism online magazine, which gives journalism majors, online journalism majors (!), magazine track folks, photographers, and Ohio University community members a chance to get their hands dirty in Online Journalism without being closely attached to the established student media. Check…
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Hard News, Nothing Clever
As quick as I got my first byline in the Spartan Daily, I get my second. Busy day yesterday. I even got rear-ended getting onto 280. Busy day…
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My First Byline
In today’s Spartan Daily, I appear with an opinion column. It’s a “guest column” – anyone can submit one to the editors (around 800 words, please) at thespartandaily@thespartandaily.com. Oh, and if you’d care to debate me, arrest me, call me a pinko commie bastard, or otherwise express your contrary viewpoint, you can leave feedback on…
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SJSU RSS Feed via Feedshake
Playing with Feedshake, a service that lets you, the user, roll a bunch of RSS feeds up into one package. The RSS feed I just built out of a bunch of SJSU sources, including Delicious, Technorati, and Flickr feeds among others, is here. Paste that sucker into your aggregator and enjoy. There’s some bigger ideas…
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Columnist Fired at UNC Daily Tar Heel Student Newspaper
Jillian Bandes, a columnist at the Daily Tar Heel, independent student newspaper of the University of North Carolina, was fired this week. Her Tuesday “Licensed to Jill” column addressed racial profiling, and contained such money quotes as “I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an…
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Journalist turns Blogger turns J-School Prof
The New York Times (reg. req’d) reports that the City University of New York has hired blogger and New Media guru Jeff Jarvis to head up a New Media program at the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Hey Jeff, please be sure to blog the curriculum so we can play along at home. In…