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TEACHAPALOOZA June 12-14, 2015
The Poynter Institute, St. Pete, Florida 
Register here: http://teachapalooza.com/register/
Renew-Refresh-Energize your teaching

  • Cutting edge training from Rock-Star speakers
  • Amazingly low $299 tuition plus discount hotel room deals 
  • Premiere of Merchants of Doubt movie plus free teaching guides
  • Free access to Premium version Videolicious
  • Training from Google trainers on new online tools
  • Build life-changing professional friendships with the best journalism educators
  • Stay for three additional days for the Hands-On Backpack Video and Editing session

contact:  Al Tompkins   atompkins@poynter.org   727-821-9494 / 727-409-9717(cell)
 
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Friday, June 12
 

3:15pm PDT

Entrepreneurship and the College Student
What do students need to know about business, profitability, creating an idea and bringing it to market? Increasingly your students will be freelancing, not working for media companies directly. This session may be critical to their futures.

Speakers
avatar for Katy Culver

Katy Culver

Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin – Madison



Friday June 12, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
Barnes

3:15pm PDT

Hands on with Google’s Fusion Tables
Limited Capacity seats available

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/

 


Speakers
avatar for Vanessa Schneider

Vanessa Schneider

Google
She joins TEACHAPALOOZA to lead a session on how journalists (and journalism educators) and use Google mapping tools and interactive photo tools to tell more compelling stories. Vanessa says, “My focus is on education and outreach, helping journalists to better understand how to... Read More →



Friday June 12, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
Newsroom (upstairs)

3:15pm PDT

The Pyramid of Competence for Today's Student
Discover the core skills that every journalism student must master by using a structure that Roy Peter Clark designed years go. But have the old skills including writing, numeracy, ethics get replaced by digital skills? The decisions you make to those questions will determine what courses your school should be offering.

Speakers
avatar for Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark

VP and Senior Scholar, Poynter
Poynter Senior Scholar and Vice PresidentBy many accounts, Roy Peter Clarkis America’s writing coach, a teacher devoted to creating a nation ofwriters. A Google search on his namereveals an astonishing web of influence, not just in the United States,but also around the world. His... Read More →



Friday June 12, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
Ampitheater

4:30pm PDT

Fusion Tables with Katy Culver
Moderators
avatar for Katy Culver

Katy Culver

Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Friday June 12, 2015 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
VJ Lab

4:30pm PDT

Hands on with Google’s Geo Tools
Limited Capacity seats available

Data mapping is all about using data and making sense of it by placing it into a visual environment.  It can be a LOT easier than you think. This is a Hand's On session so space will be limited to 21 people to use Poynter computers. 

Vanessa  joins TEACHAPALOOZA to lead a session on how journalists (and journalism educators) can use 

  • My Maps - Build simple custom maps. 
  • Google Earth - Annotating Earth maps with data, historical imagery, building exportable movies
  • Street View - Historical imagery, custom imagery with photo spheres
 

Speakers
avatar for Vanessa Schneider

Vanessa Schneider

Google
She joins TEACHAPALOOZA to lead a session on how journalists (and journalism educators) and use Google mapping tools and interactive photo tools to tell more compelling stories. Vanessa says, “My focus is on education and outreach, helping journalists to better understand how to... Read More →



Friday June 12, 2015 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Newsroom (upstairs)

4:30pm PDT

Survival Tools for Math Phobic Students

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.

 


Speakers
avatar for Lyn Millner

Lyn Millner

Florida Gulf Coast University
Lyn Millner returns to Teachapalooza fresh from a sabbatical. She founded the journalism program at Florida Gulf Coast University in 2011, after five years of field research and curriculum iterations intended to keep pace with the changing industry. Her students during those early... Read More →



Friday June 12, 2015 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
room 217 Upstairs

4:30pm PDT

Using Crowdfunding for Student Projects
You have big ideas but not big bucks. How can you raise money to get your ideas off the ground using crowd funding including Kickstarter?  

Speakers
avatar for Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

Senior Lecturer, Photojournalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
Senior Lecturer, Photojournalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia



Friday June 12, 2015 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Barnes
 
Sunday, June 14
 

10:30am PDT

Getting Started With Data Journalism

How  do you work with file formats? Learn the first steps for taming data and teaching students to see stories in an Excel spreadsheet.


Speakers
avatar for Lyn Millner

Lyn Millner

Florida Gulf Coast University
Lyn Millner returns to Teachapalooza fresh from a sabbatical. She founded the journalism program at Florida Gulf Coast University in 2011, after five years of field research and curriculum iterations intended to keep pace with the changing industry. Her students during those early... Read More →


Sunday June 14, 2015 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Newsroom (upstairs)

10:30am PDT

How I Teach Critical Thinking Using Real Case Studies
Critical Thinking may be the single most important skill you can teach your students. Let's plow through some real cases involving false information, bad assumptions, altered photos and plain old rumors that made the news, but shouldn't have, and wouldn't have if the journalists had just asked four key questions that Al will teach you.

Speakers
avatar for Al Tompkins

Al Tompkins

Senior Faculty, Poynter
Al Tompkins is the senior faculty for Broadcasting and Online at Poynter.He is the father of TEACHAPALOOZAHe is a licensed drone pilot. He teaches journalists and journalism all over the world. His client list includes NBC, CBS, CNN, CBC, CTV, The United Nations, and dozens of TV... Read More →


Sunday June 14, 2015 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Ampitheater

10:30am PDT

Videolicious Premium Demo
Videolicious is an IOS (apple) compatible app. It allows user to capture, edit and post videos to social media, online or send by email.

In this session, we will demonstrate the PREMIUM version of the app, which also allows soundbite editing so that the user can complete a finished package on his/her phone in minutes.

During this session, we will GIVE FREE access to the Premium version of the app and give you information on how all educators can get free access to use at your school. Videolicious has given permission for TEACHAPALOOZA attendees to get this free tool. 

Speakers
avatar for Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

Senior Lecturer, Photojournalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
Senior Lecturer, Photojournalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia



Sunday June 14, 2015 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Barnes
 
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