A correspondence with Liz has made me think about teaching in a way I had not before. All of us are either career changers or have decided we would like teaching to be our career. None of us took the traditional route to teaching so we have all had lives before this and we all have different work and educational experiences to bring to the table.
Before I began this program my ambition was becoming a journalist. My focus was on doing sports journalism via the Internet. The Internet has so many fascists of alternative and traditional media. It is an interesting place to be.
So, I have decided instead of leaving my experiences in the past I want to bring what I learned from journalism into my social studies classrooms. What better way to learn about current events than to search the Internet for different types of news and leaving comments or editorials directly on the website?
I am also throwing around the idea in my head of setting up a class Internet media outlet where the students are the reporters, editors, designer etc. Anyone else, especially you journalists out there, have any ideas about how to incorporate journalism into the classroom? Does anyone else plan on incorporating past career skill in the classroom? How are you going to do it? I would love some more ideas!
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I think that this is a terrific idea, Jen. I was trying to think of a good resource to steer your way, and I thought of the website for the radio program, "This American Life." It isn't traditional journalism, but the show combines reporting and storytelling in a nice way. I went to get the link for you, but I saw that the show's website no longer has a "For Educators" link. You actually gave me the idea I needed, though. Your mentioning Liz made me think of the internet archive's "wayback machine" and I went and located an earlier version of the show's website--here's a link to it.
ReplyDeleteIt has some good ideas, but as it turns out it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I finally found the host Ira Glass's tips for making radio at the current.org website. Maybe this will be of some use to you.