Creating gentle introductions to coding for journalists...
A brief look at how I'm trying to find gentle ways to introduce coding to students
Topic
academic
A collection of 5 issues
Grounding journalism education
This is a version of a Keynote speech I gave at the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia conference #JERAA17 in December 2017
Advice to journalism students for being online.
Its getting to that point in the academic calendar where I’m writing
documentation for the modules I’ll be teaching this year. Looking back over
previous years, I’ve noticed how bits of information appear and disappear in the
guidance notes I write; notes about certain types of kit
The right Medium for student work
I’m in the process of finalizing my course/module descriptions for this year.
In one of my second year modules – the digital landscape – we are asking the
students to produce a piece of multimedia reporting (the other assignment is to
work in groups to pitch a media related start-up
Who takes the risk in changing journalism?
I’m spending the next few days in a research symposium about journalism. Lots of
great people with interesting things to say about the changing face and
challenges for journalism. I’m not going to go into too much detail about
what’s being discussed -that’s partly because a