Journalism/Correspondence Jim Stovall December2009

Correspondence

• jprof approaching it's fifth birthday; teaching journalism for 30 years; written several books, adopted in numerous places....
• looking forward to the time, when there might be a new edition of the book, I've written, and created the site, as a "giant feeling cabinet", to help me keep up with the field in its entirety.
• that was the original, basic idea of the stuff..
• maybe the stuff I created would be useful for people, who are teaching journalism
• this would be a good site to house the syllabuses for the courses I teach
• it has drawn an international audience (mideast, eastern europe and asia)
• that's where I am with the website...

• I am involved in a different projects, where JPROF is the starting point for a number of projects that I am doing...
• I've got a lot of content that I've got on there; I can develop new stuff and particularly as the web has developed as a medium, it gets more and more interesting...
• it can be used
• re: Open Ed: http://openedconference.org/archives/586

• I see a lot of potential here, this is good for our American students here, for our students to be involved in something like this; I could easily see some class projects here..

• your retirement
  • one of these days I'll retire, I don't know if I will want to stop doing what I'm doing;

• your interests

• one possibility might be to develop a journalism course based on Learning4Content
  • one of the big things I'm involved with (when I came to Univ. of Tennessee in 2006), I helped start a student journalism website.
  • became very popular, and a teaching tool, central to our curriculum
  • it could happen on other campuses - take our CMS, and generatize it, and give it away...
  • if there were campus news websites, why not try to form communities, or association, show content; few friends - we started Inter-Collegiate Online News Network (now into 2nd year), couple of dozen campus
• we'll be successful in attracting money
• outlet, partnership - or mutual benefit?
  • community / web journalism
• I would certainly be willing to contribute whatever I could to an effort like that; I would be willing to be supportive in that regard;
• one of the things that attracts me, is an international focus and worldwide reach - that's very attractive and very useful
• I'm very interested in the international focus and international reach - we could probably come up with a good partnership, that could be of interest to both of us.

http://www.intercollegiatenews.com

• community journalism

• Introductory course to Journalism, Writing, or Reporting (as our Intercollegiate Organization would develop; an international partnership would be interesting to us)

in response to

December 2009 letter.

Hi,

I found your excellent journalism site - and was wondering about your interests in web journalism. I am on the governing council of WikiEducator (think Wikipedia for education), and we are exploring possibilities for web journalism in our community. (I was trained as a print journalist). www.wikieducator.org is a growing international community of 11,000+ educators in 110+ countries - and we'd like to include a journalism component. We are dedicated to developing a free and open version of the world's education curriculum by 2015, in line with the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

Would you be interested in chatting?

- Randy

• See also: Journalism node