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< class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"> How Journalists Can Make News Great Again

Student project connects residents, government to foster civic engagement Local news organizations are often the lead source of information for smaller urban and rural communities. These smaller outlets have journalists that report on local city councils, school boards and drainage districts. A discussion between Lamar University journalism students and faculty led to the development of […]

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< class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"> Apps to use for teaching online during COVID-19 hiatus

Recent events over the past couple of weeks have caused a paradigm shift for many workers and educators and how we interact with our peers and/or students. I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be any harder than it needs to be — we all have important things on our mind. Let’s […]

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< class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"> 5304 Week 1 – What’s My Why – It’s Passion For Teaching Journalism

  “My innovation plan seeks to infuse that passion to the communication department at large – to groom independent, critical thinkers that can serve the greater good of the public. To show people the information that they have the right to know and need to know.” Part A Why? We believe today’s students are the […]

< class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"> My Revised Innovation Plan

    Preparing journalists for career in media requires a broad set of skills to be learned by students and requires broad toolbox of methods and models to be used in instruction. My innovation will focus on two areas: Incorporation the Maestro concept of teaching developed University of Kentucky professor Leland Ryan and pioneered and […]

< class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"> Innovation Plan Implementation Outline

Plan will begin cycle Fall 2017 semester  Step 1: Preparation (May 2017 to August 2017) Support University Press (UP) faculty advisers Stephan Malick and Andy Coughlan UP student Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, Multimedia Editor, Advertising Assistant and summer academic and/or workstudy students Funding – No funding needed Step 2: Pre Semester Implementation (May 2017) Revise/update procedures […]