Those of you who read my posting of Nov. 13, 2009, may be wondering what happened to the COJO job search for a new faculty member.
It is my pleasure to announce that the search was successful, and we hired Kristen Landreville as a new assistant professor in new media starting fall semester.
Kristen is finishing her dissertation from the Ohio State University and is living in Columbus, Ohio. Her undergraduate degrees are from the University of Florida.
According to her Web site, Kristen's research involves "the intersection of mass and interpersonal communication on political and social outcomes, especially how uncertainty, emotion, and engagement in political entertainment (e.g., documentaries, satire) influence political discussion."
She has published research articles in such journals as Mass Communication and Society and Communication Quarterly.
Next fall, she is scheduled to teach Online Journalism and Politics and the Media.
To find out more about Kristen, check her Web site.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Welcome back, sucker
In the immortal words of the great American actor Adam Sandler, in the film Billy Madison, "back to school."
I'm off to a tough start this semester. I started teaching a class named Online Journalism back in 2000 using a Microsoft program, FrontPage, to teach students how to create and manage web sites. I began building web pages by hand coding HTML back in the early '90s, but I have relied upon the simplicity of FrontPage for a long time.
So I was very surprised to find that FrontPage was no longer on the student computer lab machines this semester. In fact, the program was removed last fall when I wasn't using the computer labs.
Information Technology informed me, after I complained, that they had notified me via email in February 2009 that FrontPage would no longer be available in the labs starting fall semester. That gave me 11 months to forget about it - easy for me to do.
So I am scrambling to do a quick learn of the replacement program - another Microsoft product named Expression Web 2. Not surprisingly, it's a typical MS program with the same menus and look as most of their software. And it seems to be the same as FrontPage, but with a few new bells and whistles to justify a new program.
It seems like another example of "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
Meanwhile, I am rewriting all of the lab assignments for Online Journalism from FrontPage instructions to Expression instructions. I will probably miss a few things as I learn how to use Expression, so I hope students will show some patience with me this semester.
In the long run, though, it's probably good for this old dog to learn a new trick.
I'm off to a tough start this semester. I started teaching a class named Online Journalism back in 2000 using a Microsoft program, FrontPage, to teach students how to create and manage web sites. I began building web pages by hand coding HTML back in the early '90s, but I have relied upon the simplicity of FrontPage for a long time.
So I was very surprised to find that FrontPage was no longer on the student computer lab machines this semester. In fact, the program was removed last fall when I wasn't using the computer labs.
Information Technology informed me, after I complained, that they had notified me via email in February 2009 that FrontPage would no longer be available in the labs starting fall semester. That gave me 11 months to forget about it - easy for me to do.
So I am scrambling to do a quick learn of the replacement program - another Microsoft product named Expression Web 2. Not surprisingly, it's a typical MS program with the same menus and look as most of their software. And it seems to be the same as FrontPage, but with a few new bells and whistles to justify a new program.
It seems like another example of "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
Meanwhile, I am rewriting all of the lab assignments for Online Journalism from FrontPage instructions to Expression instructions. I will probably miss a few things as I learn how to use Expression, so I hope students will show some patience with me this semester.
In the long run, though, it's probably good for this old dog to learn a new trick.
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