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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: The Basics

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, <strong>Mary McGuire</strong> has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:</p>

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30 Jul

Teaching j-students how to live-tweet events

<p>It's easy to agree that the growing list of things journalism educators should teach their students these days must include the live-tweeting of events. What's not easy is figuring out how to do it. How can a journalism educator create a live-tweeting assignment that can be properly managed, assessed and graded?

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23 Jul

New journalism program launched in Ontario

<p>By Angelina Irinici</p>

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10 Jul

To the aspiring young journalists who ask: ‘why j-school?’

<p><strong>By Robert Washburn</strong></p><p>Over the past few months, numerous students expressed concern over their choice to become a journalist in the face of great uncertainty regarding the future of the news industry.</p><p>I tell them it is like looking at an ancient forest after a horrendous fire, similar to those going on right now across North America.</p><p>Yes, it looks bad. Really bad. Everything that has existed for so long is destroyed.</p>

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3 Jul

Applying innovation to journalism curricula

<p><strong>By Kanina Holmes</strong></p><p>Last year Twitter came up with a saucy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UFsJhYBxzY">ad</a> promoting the fact that news of an earthquake near Washington, DC reached New York faster than the 30 seconds it took the tremors to do the same.  True story.</p>

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20 Jun

J-schools at a turning point

<p><strong>By Mary McGuire</strong></p><p>The future of journalism education is as uncertain as the future of journalism.</p><p>Journalism educators everywhere are struggling to adapt their programs to prepare their students to work in a changing industry with an uncertain future, as well as protect what is valuable about a journalism education beyond the skills training.</p><p>As they do, they face students, journalists and critics who say they are not going far enough or fast enough to change what they teach and how they teach it.</p>

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10 May

Two Ottawa journalists win Michener fellowships

<p>Two women in Ottawa will spend four months working on two very different special projects, as new Michener-Deacon Fellows.</p><p>The first Michener-Deacon fellowship in journalism education has been awarded to an Ottawa journalist Melanie Coulson, senior online editor at the <em>Ottawa Citizen, who </em> will conduct research into the growing phenomenon of audience participation in the journalism produced by media enterprises. </p>

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23 Apr

From open data to open code: The Guardian launches Miso project

<p>New for your reporter toolkit is code that will allow you to make data visualizations just like <em>The Guardian</em>.</p>

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17 Feb

Clickers in the Classroom

<p><em>Classroom clickers: technology for technology’s sake or a helpful teaching tool? <strong>Bruce Gillespie</strong>, assistant professor in the journalism program at Wilfrid Laurier-Brantford, explains how using "clickers" in large journalism classes can be an effective tool for teaching and learning.</em></p><p> </p>

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11 Jan

Concordia journalism professor Ross Perigoe has died

<p>Concordia journalism professor Ross Perigoe died from a brain tumor <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120114023515/http://montreal.openfile.ca/blog/curator-blog/exclusive/2012/concordia-journalism-professor-%E2%80%9Ccoach%E2%80%9D-ross-perigoe-dies">on Tuesday night.</a></p><p> </p>

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