When you do your homework, however, when you learn by doing, you discover this idea is not 200 years old. It is more than 2,000 years old. A Confucian philosopher Xunzi seems to have written it down first. It’s a Chinese proverb, commonly translated thusly: “I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.” Education thrives through learning by doing.
The program was broadcast on 33 Arizona TV stations and 90 radio stations. A million people watched. The documentary, 16 digital stories, interactive data and app were all part of a large-scale, school-wide project that involved two dozen faculty and staff and nearly 100 students. The question is, how can YOUR school adapt this idea of teaching by “doing?”
Jacquee began her career as a Pulliam Fellow at The Indianapolis News in 1980-1981 and then went on to spend six years as a reporter for The Arizona Republic.
In 1987, she joined The Miami Herald covering social services and later became an investigative reporter, where she was part of a team that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for an investigation into property damage in South Florida caused by Hurricane Andrew.
Petchel then began producing investigative journalism for television, first as senior producer of investigations at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis and then as executive producer of investigations at WFOR-TV in Miami. She returned to The Miami Herald in 1999 as assistant city editor over the criminal justice team, later becoming the paper’s investigations editor. In 2001, she was part of a team that received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of the federal raid that removed 6-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami and returned him to his father’s custody.
She began managing the investigative team at The Houston Chronicle in 2005.
Over the course of her career, she has reported or led projects that have won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton and numerous regional awards.
Steve Fox has 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter for print and online publications, including 10 as an editor in various capacities at The Washington Post‘s award-winning Web site. Prior to joining The Post, he was a sportswriter and editor at different publications for about 10 years, including serving as the national college basketball writer for United Press International.
Steve has been involved with Web journalism since the mid 1990s. He joined The Washington Post’s Web site in 1996, just months after the site went live on the Web. He edited one of the first news blogs on the Web and was involved in planning and editing multiple multimedia projects at The Post.
At The Post, he was part of news teams that won numerous awards, including the Online News Association’s award for Most Creative Use of the Medium in 2004, as well as the EPPY award for Best Internet News Service in 2004. He left in October 2006 after spending 15 months as the liaison between the print newsroom and the Web newsroom. During that time he facilitated training of print editors and reporters in everything from shooting video to taking part in online chats to understanding the ebb and flow of the online newsroom. Prior to that he managed the morning news operation of the 24-hour site, making decisions on what went on The Post’s homepage during the busiest part of the online day. He was also part of The Post’s online political team, serving as national/and political editor during the 9/11 terror attacks and the 2002 midterm elections and guiding coverage of the post-election debacle of 2000.
This is really our popular data tool, and I think it'd be nice to give people an hour with it (it's our most-requested workshop tool!). We'd build some custom charts + maps. I'd share a site like this with them to work with during the workshop (they can use it beyond the workshop too):
https://sites.google.com/site/fusiontableslab/
Vanessa joins TEACHAPALOOZA to lead a session on how journalists (and journalism educators) can use
Most of your students fear math—and maybe you do, too. Learn some pain-free (dare we say, fun?) exercises and assignments for teaching basic concepts and turning them into stories.
How do you work with file formats? Learn the first steps for taming data and teaching students to see stories in an Excel spreadsheet.
Rick Brunson: Play Ball! Developing a Sports Bureau With Local Media: How to partner with local media organizations to turn your sports reporting course into a working sports bureau that raises your program's profile, gives crucial experience to your students and broadens local sports coverage for the community your university serves.
Kanina Holmes: E-portfolios starting in year 1 - Our university launched a new online portfolio platform and I became an early adopter/guinea pig to see how it could be used for 180 incoming journalism students.
Karen Houppert: The BIG multimedia class project on one BIG topic.
E-portfolios starting in year 1 - Our university launched a new online portfolio platform and I became an early adopter/guinea pig to see how it could be used for 180 incoming journalism students.
