2008 Poynter Educators Forum

MSU is wrestling with many things that the rest of you mentioned. The biggest obstacles: lack of equipment or money to buy equipment, faculty resistance, lack of experience among faculty members in new technology and new media, lack of training for faculty to make them comfortable teaching new things. The students taking the reporting for online class can lease video camera kits, but there are only 10 kits. So they are not really available for students in other classes. The IT department has some equipment that students can check out for four hours at a time, but they don't have enough. Some faculty members are eager to learn storytelling over multiplatforms. Others are resistant. Some of the resistance may stem from a lack of training for faculty. Some of it though is a reluctance to accept that journalism has changed and a loyalty to old classes, old ways.