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Post Info TOPIC: Room for improvement at UW-Madison (graduate)


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Room for improvement at UW-Madison (graduate)
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At the graduate level, I dont see a lot of the journalism professors incorporating multimedia into their curriculum in any kind of a significant manner, though students are encouraged to add digital accompaniments to their class projects. Challenges here include time in the classroom (i.e. there is the thought that teaching multimedia takes away from UW-Madisons core teaching base journalistic concepts and writing), skill levels of professors (most are senior professors who havent done a lot of multimedia on their own), and, finally, the resources to teach the class (either lab time or faculty who are free to teach the course). But I think there is a willingness to change all that, or at least, I hope there is.

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We need to integrate multimedia into all our classes, from blogging to packaging for the Web. Some of this is simple, like incorporting student blogs into the website for every class, enlarging the discussion of writing for the web and ethical considerations. But the greater challenge is understanding just what "technical" mastery journalists will need and how we will provide it. We are going to have to move away from "nice to have" to "Have to have" in the curriculum. It is a question of both resources and faculty skill.

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