AEJMC Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshop

Teaching and Working in a Multimedia World

 

Wednesday, August 8, 2007, Washington, D.C.

 

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This page serves as a working draft of what various people would like to see in the workshop. Our aim is to help journalism educators introduce new skills and techniques into their classes so that their students are better equipped to get journalism jobs in any medium -- broadcast, print, online. These jobs include newspaper, magazine, TV, radio, cable, online "pure play" -- you name it. If it's journalism and it's digital, then it has a place here in this workshop.

 

This is almost finalized! Just waiting for some final replies from the panel moderators.

 

Sponsors of the Workshop (AEJMC Divisions)

 

• VisComm Division (Visual Communication)
• Magazine Division
• CTech Division (Communications Technology)
• RTVJ Division (Radio-Television Journalism)
• CCJA (Community College Journalism Association)

 

Panel 1 (1:15-2:30 pm) • Panel 2 (2:45-4:00 pm) • Panel 3 (4:15 - 5:30 pm) • Panel 4 (7:00-8:15 pm) • Panel 5 (8:30-9:45 pm)

 

Heads and vice heads of these divisions met at the AEJMC winter conference for 45 minutes and agreed on the rough schedule you see below. (Source: E-mail from Edgar Huang, Dec. 7, 2006.)

 

Mindy McAdams (University of Florida) is recruiting panel organizers from the sponsoring divisions.

 

 

Goals of the workshop

 

1. To provide useful information and ideas that will help journalism educators regardless of whether they teach in broadcast, print or online courses (or programs).
2. To provide information about real practices in today's real newsrooms straight from the practitioners doing the work in those newsrooms.

 

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General proposals

 

1. Advance registration is required.
2. A $35 registration fee will be charged to subsidize expenses.

 

 

 

Schedule

 

 

1 - 2:30 p.m. -- Panel 1

 

FINAL

 

Industry Leaders Confronting Convergence

 

Both the status quo and the future of media convergence concern newsroom leaders today. What are the industry’s expectations of future journalists? Leaders in the field will discuss the big picture, how their operations work now, and how they expect those newsrooms to work in the future.

 

 

MODERATOR

Jack Zibluk, Arkansas State University

 

PANELISTS

1. Linda Epstein, photo editor, McClatchy–Tribune Washington Bureau
2. Gail Fisher, senior photo/illustrations editor, National Geographic; former multimedia photo editor, Los Angeles Times
3. Seth Gitner, multimedia editor, The Roanoke (Va.) Times
4. Scott McKiernan, director and founder, independent photo agency Zuma Press
5. Deborah Potter, executive director, Newslab; former CBS News correspondent
6. Ju-Don Marshall Roberts, managing editor, washingtonpost.com

 

 

 

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. -- Panel 2

 

FINAL

 

Practitioners and Pioneers in Media Convergence

 

What are current best practices for multimedia journalism? How is it done, and how is it organized in today’s media organizations? Practitioners will discuss projects and strategies, as well as what skills they need new hires to bring to the table.

 

MODERATOR

Keith Graham, School of Journalism, University of Montana

 

PANELISTS

1. Travis Fox, videographer, Emmy Award–winner, washingtonpost.com
2. Lauren Eshkenazi, senior Web producer, The Baltimore Sun
3. Maria Godoy, online producer, National Public Radio
4. Brian Storm, president and founder, MediaStorm, New York (http://mediastorm.org/)
5. Don Wittekind, University of North Carolina, formerly graphics editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

 

 

4:30 - 5:45 p.m. -- Panel 3

 

FINAL

 

Experience from On-Campus: Multimedia Reporting

Experiences and lessons from campus multimedia reporting. Panelists will share their experience of teaching and practicing media convergence. This session will include take-home lessons that participants can incorporate into other classes, such as writing, editing, photo and broadcast.

 

MODERATOR

Larry Dailey, Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno

 

PANELISTS

1. Gary Hanson, Kent State University
2. Chris Harvey, University of Maryland
3. Edgar Huang, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
4. Mindy McAdams, University of Florida
5. Rick Musser, University of Kansas
6. Mary Spillman, Ball State University

 

 

 

5:45 - 7 p.m. -- Dinner Break

 

ON YOUR OWN.

 

 

7 - 8:15 p.m. -- Panel 4

 

FINAL

 

Finding Balance: Teaching Software vs. Critical Thinking

 

How should we balance the teaching of new technology with critical and creative thinking? This Socrates Café style roundtable will be a spirited discussion on the impact of new media in our classrooms. How do we prepare our students for technological change and adoption when the software release we may be teaching today is obsolete by the time students graduate?

 

MODERATOR

Roxanne O'Connell, Roger Williams University

 

PANELISTS

1. Joel Geske, Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication, Iowa State University
2. Edgar Huang, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
3. Larry Pryor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California
4. Carol Schwalbe, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
5. Michelle Seelig, University of Miami School of Communication

 

 

 

8:30 - 10 p.m. -- Panel 5

 

FINAL

 

Resources for Teaching Multimedia Skills

 

Presenters will share their valuable experiences of teaching multimedia using available resources: “Pocket Journalism,” Soundslides, “10 Steps to Better Interactive Graphics,” blogging and Flash. Attendees will receive handouts to take home the skills they will need to teach their own students.

 

MODERATOR

Robert Mercer, Journalism Department, Cypress College

 

PANELISTS

1. Clyde Bentley, University of Missouri, Columbia
2. Larry Dailey, University of Nevada, Reno
3. Shahira Fahmy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
4. Doug Fisher, University of South Carolina and Newsplex
5. Cindy Royal, Texas State University, San Marcos

 

 

 

From Edgar's e-mail after the Midwinter Meeting --

These are the panel proposals that were merged into this full-day session.

• PC5 Digital Technology and Visual Information
• 131 The Best Practices of Multimedia Reporting in the Media Industry
• 132 Teaching Software vs Critical Thinking: Challenges to the Communication Teaching Environment
• 133 Do “Jacks of All Trades” Have to Be “Masters of None”? Academic Perspectives on Media Convergence
• PC9 Integrating Online Skills into the Core Courses
• 60 WEB SKILLS: Training young journalists for today’s digital realities
• 77 The Converged Newsroom: Technological, Editorial and Practical Challenges of Teaching across Print, Broadcast and Online Platforms
• 225 Teaching Software vs. Critical Thinking: Challenges to the Communication Teaching Environment
• 226 The Newsplex — What's New?

 

 

 

 

 

What else?

 

What is missing? Add your ideas here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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