New digital tools not only are useful to working journalists, but they’re finding value in the classroom. In the Newsgathering 2 internship course at the University of Colorado Boulder, associate professor Tom Yulsman and instructor Sandra Fish this week used Google+ Hangouts to conduct a classroom Q and A session (photo below) with two remote guests, both CU alumni. Danielle Albert, digital news producer for Scripps Howard News Service, and Jason Bartz, embedded newsroom developer at the Washington Post, interacted with students about their experiences and how CU helped them achieve their career goals.
The virtual-interaction experience was great, with good visibility for students viewing the guests on a projector screen, and excellent audio. The remote guests seemed to hear students’ questions in a huge classroom, as long as the students spoke loudly enough for their voices to carry across a fairly large room to the microphone.
Newsgathering 2 students converse with CU alums using Google+ Hangouts (Photo by Angelica Kalika)
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[...] Conducting a Q and A with remote guests. Sandra Fish and Tom Yulsman put Google+ Hangouts to work in their University of Colorado classrooms this year. The instructors used the online application to conduct a Q-and-A session with two remote guests, two alumni who now work in journalism. The experience was designed to give students a look into what it’s really like to work in the field and to help them figure out how to best meet their career goals. Students and instructors alike felt the project was a great success, and it could become a way to more easily connect students with experts and advisors in almost any field. [...]
[...] Mentor groups: Small mentoring groups can get together through Hangouts, updating both mentors and mentees on new developments. [...]
[...] Mentor groups: Small mentoring groups can get together through Hangouts, updating both mentors and mentees on new developments. [...]
[...] Mentor groups: Small mentoring groups can get together through Hangouts, updating both mentors and mentees on new developments. [...]