I've spent a lot of time looking at journalism degree course structures. The following information will hopefully prove useful for those choosing a university journalism degree course. It may also prove relevant to any academics looking at revalidation, as it contains some journal articles that I have found personally very useful. My bias is looking […]
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Daily Mail’s outrage over new MA in Social Media
A minor-storm erupted last week regarding the launch of the MA in Social Media by Birmingham City University. Described inaccurately by the Daily Mail as a "Masters degree in Facebook" this was a cue for references to "Mickey Mouse degrees", "ex-Poly students" and "tax payers money + drains" etc etc……[Feel free to complete]. My favourite […]
Teaching Second Life to journalism students
We’re introducing Second Life to L1 journalism students next week. I normally attempt to cultivate a cool, ‘technological determinist’ image. But in this case, I have had to work extra hard to explain the relevance of SL to our students. The buzz surrounding SL was pretty high back in May 2008 when I was planning […]
End of teaching for Xmas
This semester has been absurdly and stupidly busy. And I've not even looked at the marking yet. Thankfully, the new and converged journalism degree seems to have gone down very well with the students. . Just one problem: A new degree structure x new units x increased teaching hours = zero time […]
Why do lecturers blog? And what do they talk about?
This is old news, but Zoe Corbyn wrote an excellent feature on academics who blog in the Times Higher – By the blog: academics tread carefully (October 2008). Scroll down the article, stop about halfway and stuck between Zoe Brigley of Northampton University and David Petley of Durham, you can read about this blog! Zoe's […]
