As a very recent transplant from a newsroom, I would like to learn from other recovering professional journalists how you translated the multimedia skills you gained in the field to the classroom. I have some experience with multi-media storytelling as a reporter, but had so much support from real experts ("Having trouble editing that audio slideshow? Does your raw footage suck? Here's the online editor to come in and fix it for you! Step aside ... ") that I don't know if I could train / supervise students and bail *them* out when they get into trouble.
I think it is exactly this idea that makes a LOT of educators hesitate to teach new stuff that they have only recently learned themselves -- a concern that the students will immediately start asking for more advanced stuff. Then you would be standing there saying "Duh ..."
Of course this might happen, but I have found it happens much LESS often than we imagine (or fear). Some of you might think I know everything about certain technology skills, but the fact is, I have nothing more than the most basic, beginner competency in a lot of software and tools. I spend a lot of time planning the "how to teach it part" and figuring out how to get the students to a level where they can complete a particular useful assignment successfully.
In reality, many students are more worried about completing those assignments than they are about adding new and additional skills.
Sometimes even when they do ask for something advanced that I KNOW how to do, I say no, we're not doing that, because it would take too long and we need to cover this and this and ...
You don't have to be a walking library of expertise and skills to teach this stuff.
