APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.

The College Educator Seminar Series

Use technology that matters to teach what matters

Three intensive, fast-paced days of relevant, hands-on, cut-to-the-chase learning for journalism educators.

• Learn to teach the best tools for social media, multimedia, graphics, mobile reporting, tablet storytelling and more.
• Learn what your students absolutely MUST have to get a great first job from Poynter’s Al Tompkins.
• Refresh your curricular thinking with ideas from the University of Wisconsin’s Katy Culver.
• Exchange ideas with peers and pros for highly-effective classroom teaching.
• See the latest from Poynter’s e-learning portal, News University.
• Get the first look at brand-spanking-new results from Poynter’s EyeTrack: Tablet research project.

Teachapalooza is the place to share ideas, to grow as a teacher, to embrace technology and to join a lasting community of journalism educators. The workshop is followed by two additional days (June 25 & 26) of optional “hands-on” learning for educators who want to learn or polish their field video and video editing skills.

SCHEDULE

Friday, June 22

9:00 - 9:30 / Who’s here, the schedule, how to do Teachaplooza

9:30 - 11:00 / What Your Students HAVE to Know When They Graduate ~ Al Tompkins

11:00 - 11:15 / Break

11:15 - 12:45 / Tools for the Classroom: Use Geekiness for Good ~ Katy Culver & Sara Quinn

12:45 - 2:15 / Lunch at Poynter (Optional: Show and Share - Partipants offer 10 minute presentations on cool ideas they are trying in their classrooms. Presenters should bring handouts and rubrics if possible.)

2:45 - 3:45 / Geeky Goodness: Tools for the Classroom (Pick one)

• Cover It Live ~ Katy Culver

• Screencasts, Wikis, Wordpress ~ Vidisha Priyanka

• Blogging in the Classroom ~ Vicki Krueger

• Building a Course Around Mobile Phone Video ~ Lyn Millner

• Regina to the Rescue (Got a tech problem, gear questions? Informal talk with Regina McCombs)

3:45 - 4:00 / Break

4:00 - 5:30 / Inspiring Student Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking ~ Mark Briggs

• What will the digital landscape look like to our graduating students?
• How do you prepare them for jobs that do not currently exist?
• An introduction to entrepreneurial thinking and how digital news startups make and will make money, whether for-profit or non-profit
• How to teach students to embrace innovation whether they hope to work for a two-person startup or a multi-national corporation

5:30 - 5:45 / Break

5:45 - 6:45 / Can’t Get Enough TEACHAPALOOZA? Let’s Keep Rolling!

Optional: Round Two of Geeky Goodness (Pick one)

• Cover It Live ~ Katy Culver

• Screencasts, Wikis, Wordpress ~ Vidisha Priyanka

• Blogging in the Classroom ~ Vicki Krueger

• Building a Course Around Mobile Phone Video ~ Lyn Milner

• Regina to the Rescue (Got a tech problem, gear questions? Informal talk with Regina McCombs)

Saturday, June 23

9:00 - 10:30 / New EyeTrack Findings Revealed: The Game-Changer for News Tablets ~ Sara Quinn

10:30 - 10:45 / Break

10:45 - 12:15 / A Fresh and Relevant Curriculum: It takes Courage, Strategy and Adaptablity ~ Katy Culver

12:15 - 1:45 / Lunch at Poynter (Optional: Show and Share)

2:00 - 3:15 / Online and Distance Learning: Teaching and Reaching Beyond Your Classroom ~ Vicki Krueger

3:15 - 3:30 / Break

3:30 - 4:45 / Geeky Goodness: Skills to Know and Teach (Pick one)

• Maximize Web Metrics, the Heartbeat of any Website ~ Theresa Collington

• Learn to Teach Your Students to Think Critically ~ Al Tompkins

• Mapping, Charts and Fusion - Way More Than Decoration ~ Sara Quinn

• The Power of Mobile: Reporting With the Tools You Have ~ Regina McCombs

• Twitterize Your Course ~ Lyn Milner

• Let Katy Help (informal conversations with Katy Culver to help you solve your problems

4:45 - 5:00 / Break

5:00 - 6:15 / ROUND TWO of Geeky Goodness: Skills to Know and Teach

Sunday, June 24

9:00 - 10:30 / The Trending Teacher — What to Teach, What to Trash ~ Sree Sreenivasan

10:30 - 10:45 / Break

10:45 - 12:15 / Mimosas With Roy: You Matter — So Don’t Make a Living, Make a Mark ~ Roy Peter Clark

12:15 - 1:30 / Lunch at Poynter

1:30 - 2:15 / Heading Back to the Classroom for Graduation ~ Al Tompkins

Every session will be blogged and Tweeted so we capture the main teaching ideas that emerge each day.

We welcome schools that send several faculty to Teachapalooza. In 2011, some universities sent teams of teachers to learn together then return to the school to share their learning with colleagues. We also welcome Deans and Department Chairs who face tough choices about what to teach and how to teach it.

Questions: E-mail seminars@poynter.org