After our meeting Friday and after meeting briefly with Adam to discuss ways in which our J-School-related topics can differ, I was needing to hone in on my topic. I started thinking that I'm most interested in what skills and insight current Scripps students would like to gain from their classes.
I'm also interested in what employers would like to see from employees fresh out of J-School. I'd like to examine which skills, exactly, are getting students jobs in journalism, and how Scripps can emphasize these qualities in pre-existing classes right now or new ones that could be created as we switch from quarters to semesters. I'm mostly interested in opinions from current Scripps students, recently graduated Scripps students, and employers. I'd also like to examine past curriculum changes here at Scripps, at the suggestion of Dr. Stewart, both when online j became a sequence and when new technologies (such as radio) were integrated.
My focus is slightly historical, but mostly I would like to hone in on the present -- and what our J-School can do right now, in this economically-deprived media landscape, to better prepare student journalists for the "real world."
I've been looking into the changing curriculum at other great J-Schools around the country and what I'm noticing is a trend of integration all around -- something I think Scripps must consider. We relegate Web skills to online j classes only, which is one of the main topics I hear many Scripps kids bemoaning.
So, I would like to ask my classmates and any other OU J-Schoolers who might have stumbled across this blog: What is one skill or idea that you'd like to see taught more prevalently in Scripps?
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Design programs for every sequence! I would love to leave OU knowing how to work Photoshop/InDesign, I think it would make myself so much more marketable.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know how to do multimedia stuff, like videos, slide shows and podcasts.
ReplyDeleteAnnie mentioned learning video, slideshows and podcasts. Those skills are certainly important and I second her opinion, but I want to go even further and find out how to centralize everything. Sure you can put a video on a Web page surrounded by text and pictures, but how about putting it all in to Flash and making it more interactive, more aesthetically pleasing and overall more cohesive? If you look at some of the really good sites out there, Mediastorm comes to mind, that is what they are doing and that is what students who want to go into online should be learning, in my opinion.
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