Teachapalooza 2012: The Poynter Educators Conference Preview
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- Title:
- Teachapalooza 2012: The Poynter Educators Conference Preview
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- Self-Directed Course
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Get the latest in teaching and technology at this unconventional conference. You'll exchange ideas, share insights and teaching materials with other educators, and learn how to equip your students to meet changing media demands. Plus, you'll get Poynter training in some of the hottest topics in journalism education. Scheduled for June 2012. Watch Poynter NewsU for updates.
In this preview, we've included some highlights from the 2011 session. Here's the schedule from the 2011.
Who should take this course:
College educators who want to learn about and share the latest developments in multimedia and digital journalism.
Course Instructors:
Al Tompkins
Al Tompkins is Senior Faculty/Broadcast and Online at The Poynter Institute. He is the author of Aim for the Heart: A Guide for TV Producers and Reporters, which is being used by more than 70 universities as their main broadcast writing textbook, and the Poynter NewsU course Reporting, Writing for TV and the Web: Aim for the Heart. He is also the author of Telling Memorable Video Stories, a video tutorial series at Poynter's NewsU.
Tompkins teaches in seminars at Poynter and teaches at workshops and conferences on the road. He has been a presenter at national conventions for IRE, RTDNA, NABJ, NAHJ, AAJA, Unity, NLGJA, PRNDI and NPPA. Since 1998, he has taught seminars and workshops in 41 states and four countries.
Sara Dickenson Quinn
Sara Dickenson Quinn teaches in the areas of design, illustration, typography, visual storytelling, media convergence and leadership at The Poynter Institute. She was the director of Poynter’s 2007 EyeTrack study of newspaper and online news design.
Kenny Irby
Kenny Irby is Senior Faculty/Visual Journalism and director of diversity at The Poynter Institute. He founded Poynter's photojournalism program in 1995, and he teaches and consults in areas of photojournalism, leadership, ethics and diversity.
Regina McCombs
Regina McCombs is a faculty member of The Poynter Institute, teaching multimedia, and social and mobile journalism, and she is a contributor to the Mobile Media blog at Poynter.org.
She previously was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com and a field producer and photographer at KARE-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Winner of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, as well as an Emmy for her video work, she has spoken regularly around the country about how to find new ways to tell stories on the Web and mobile platforms.
Katy Culver
Katy Culver currently serves on the faculty of the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the university in 1999 to help launch an innovative converged curriculum to prepare students for a changing media landscape. When Culver was advised early on that she was "preparing students for jobs that may not even exist yet," she scarcely had a clue how quickly and massively the ground would shift.
Vicki Krueger
Vicki Krueger is manager at Poynter's News University and author of Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More – a self-directed module that consistently is ranked as one of the most popular courses at NewsU. She has worked with The Poynter Institute for more than 15 years as an editor, helping produce "Best Newspaper Writing," the annual collection of the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award winners and finalists, as well as other Poynter publications. She recently completed editing "Aim for the Heart," a book by Poynter's Al Tompkins for TV reporters and producers and developed an e-learning module at NewsU to accompany the book, Reporting, Writing for TV and the Web: Aim for the Heart. You can follow her on Twitter at vkrueger.