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Poynter page: Convergence for College Educators

Dates

Sunday, Feb. 25, to Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007

Start 3 p.m. Sunday

End 2:30 p.m. Wednesday

Contact

Al Tompkins e-mail, Jan. 7, @macloo (atompkins@poynter.org)

Jeannie Nissembaum will be your coordinator for hotel and travel (jnissenbaum@poynter.org)

Schedule

Sunday

3:00-3:30 gather @ poynter cocktails and snacks

3:30-4;00 a quick tour of Poynter

4:00-6:00 the week ahead

getting to know you

6:00-7:00 dinner at poynter

7:00-8:30 Life in a 2007 Multimedia Newsroom (Andrew)

Monday

9:00-10:45 Make it interactive (al)

10:45-11:00 break

11:00-12:30 What we need is Transformational Change (mindy)

12:30-1:30 lunch @ poynter

1:30-2:00 down time-relax-refresh

2:00-2:30 20 minute teach-in (Belmont University-Thom Storey-via internet connection)

2:30-2:45 break

2:45-4:15 Journalism Ethics in a multimedia world (Bill Mitchell)

4:15-4:45 group discussion-what we learned today

Tuesday

9:00-9:30 A 20 minute teach-in (Keith Graham-Univ of Montana)

9:30-11:00 EyeTrack 07 (what we are learning do far) (Sara Quinn)

11:00-11:15 break

11:15-12:30 Online audio for a non-online reporting class (mindy)

12:30-1:30 lunch @ poynter down time-relax-refresh

1:30-2:00 20-minute teach in (Tom Petner --Temple University-urban news lab-via internet )

2:00-2:30 20-minute teach-in (Douglas Rea-RIT-teaching multimedia)

2:30-2:45 break

2:45-3:15 20-minute teach-in (Teresa Puente-Columbia college-teaching print and broadcasting to sophomores)

3:15-4:45 The Naples transformation (Ellyn angelotti)

4:45-5:15 what we learned today

Wednesday

8:30-10:00 media mall-session one

(choose one) 50 Writing tools (roy)

Writing for Broadcast (al)

Hands on Producing multimedia for online (Andrew)

Teaching With Blogs (mindy)

10;00-10:15 break

10:15-11:45 media mall-session two

choose one) 50 Writing Tools (Roy)

Writing for Broadcast (al)

Hands on producing for multimedia-part 2 (in depth-andrew )

Flash in Journalism (mindy)

11:45-12:45 lunch @ poynter

12:45-2:00 Taking it back-plans discussed in small groups

2:00-2:30 graduations and goodbyes

2:30 best of luck and safe travel educators!

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