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Teaching Point.

Just a little observation.
Today a student asked me about what was required of a practicum exercise.
We are going to be reporting on the 2nd Global Media Ethics Roundtable using social media tools.
The students question was can I post a video and be done?
I suppose but what a waste of time and possibility.
It seems it was [...]

In search of the next best thing!

I wonder if at times the institutions of education are doing us a dis-service?
Think about it for a minute, we want people to take risks, create the next best thing, work as teams and WOW the population.
And we learn this where? School.
Sure we have IB schools that claim to do this BUT every IB school [...]

Do we need more social connections in the classroom.

I am wrestling with the use of technology in my university classes.
To be very honest the use of new communication technology excites me!
I love the way Twitter, #jamesed_me, allows me to communicate links, materials and ideas to my students.
Facebook creates another forum for interaction, especially if the group is protected.
Livestream allows me to actually film [...]

Branding for Women

For the last few years I have been very interested in how we brand ideas and concepts for the different segments of the population.
The mud on the wall method of delivering content, if some sticks it is ok approach, is simply not good enough.
Again and again I return to Michele Miller and Wonder Branding.
www.wonderbranding.com is [...]

The new world of work

THE 2009 DALTON CAMP LECTURE IN JOURNALISM
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One of the toughest parts of working in education is knowing that you are teaching a group of students of which some will go into careers that at this exact moment do not exist.
So, the question has to be, am I giving them the skills they need?
Unfortunately, [...]

apps are the future.

The 4th screen (your mobile/cellular phone) holds the key to your information world.
And are we teaching app creation, management, imagination in our schools?
I suspect many teachers/professors have only a passing knowledge about apps given that they are not using phones that easily take on board advanced applications.
My advice to students, anyone really, don’t wait for [...]

Why we fail?

One of our greatest problems today is the silo culture of education.
Business schools do not talk to design schools who do not talk to education schools who do not talk to IT schools and nobody is talking to the cooking schools.
Well, if the core elements of our education system are not relating to each other [...]

The what have you published mentality

Today I was talking to a group of academics about convergent media.
What I learned, to my surprise, is that even though I practice convergent media, see my nightline site, this does not count because I have not invested the painful time to write about it for some redundant academic journal.
I have even taught and continue [...]

Smart Journalism

Today the way we do journalism is developing before our eyes and many reporters do not even see it happening!
Smart phones are making the distribution of news and opinion NEW.
In the past I have called what is coming iJournalism but now I realize the new technology enables journalism is smart journalism!
Smart phones will be the [...]

Why education today,ALL of it, gets an F!

We are in an education crisis today.
You know it.
Teachers know it.
Students know it.
Governments know it.
So, you ask, if the crisis of education is happening in front of or eyes why are we sitting on our hands and taping our mouths shut?
1. fear of change
2. change = admission of fault
3. new=unknown
4. suggests a complete societal re-think.
By [...]

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