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Special
needs
Persons with disabilities are to be fully included in this course. Please let me know if you need any special accommodations to enable you to fully participate. I will try to maintain confidentiality of the information you share with me. To request academic accomodations, please register with the McBurney Disability Resource Center.
Classroom
respect
The UW-Madison is committed to creating a dynamic, diverse and welcoming learning environment for all students and has a non-discrimination policy that reflects this philosophy. Disrespectful behaviors or comments addressed towards any group or individual, regardless of race/ethnicity, sexuality, gender, religion, ability, or any other difference is deemed unacceptable in this class, and will be addressed publicly by the professor.
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FAQ
Q: I thought J901 was a colloquium introducing new graduate students in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication to different kinds of communication research and professional practice issues.
A: Research, practice, and teaching are all important parts of graduate student training. In the Fall, J901 focuses on various research traditions, methods, theories, and topics, as well as issues of professional practice. In the Spring, J901 focuses on various teaching traditions, methods, theories, and topics.
Q: What happened to the comfy orange couches that used to line the west wall of the Nafziger room?
A: The comfy orange couches were deemed a health and style hazard by the new SJMC Director and have been recycled into large piles of toxic orange fuzz.
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About
the instructor
Greg
Downey <gdowney @ wisc.edu> is a professor
in Letters & Science with a 50 percent appointment in the
School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a 50 percent
appointment in the School of Library and Information Studies. His
teaching and research both center on the history and geography
of information and communication technology and the often hidden
human labor behind it.
Downey joined the UW faculty in 2001. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, an M.A. In liberal studies from Northwestern University, and a joint Ph.D. in history of technology and human geography from the Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Madison, Downey spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography and the Humanities Institute at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
His industry experience as a computer analyst includes three years at the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago, and three years at Roger Schank’s Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. He has held short-term volunteer positions with both the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago and the Community Information Exchange in Washington D.C. And he used to draw a daily comic strip when he was an undergraduate, believe it or not.
Downey's
first book, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and
Geography, 1850-1950, was published by Routledge in 2002. His
second book, Closed captioning: Subtitling, stenography, and
the digital convergence of text with television, was published
by Johns Hopkins in 2008.
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sample teaching statements |
Catching up on professional education presentations Last week and today we had two professional education presentations, by Pat Hastings and Debra Pierce, on visual storytelling and strategic communication campaigns. Any ideas or reactions that students would like to share?  |
Spring 2012 Calendar |
Introduction: Teaching about communication at a public research university
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Writing across the curriculum
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Teaching an introductory lecture courseShawnika Hull, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication Readings and resouces (downloadable here):
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Teaching a technology and practice "boot camp"
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Identifying and addressing the "achievement gap"
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Brad
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Katy
Culver, Faculty Associate, School of Journalism & Mass
Communication
Teaching electronic storytelling with audio and video
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Teaching a campaigns course
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Teaching with service-learning
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CLASS CANCELLED FOR "COMMUNICATION CROSSROADS" GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCEThis conference, which is organized and delivered entirely by graduate students, provides a good example of professional development for teaching in terms of succinctly presenting ideas to a diverse audience. Instead of holding our noon class today, I encourage everyone to please attend as much of this conference as you can.
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Writing a syllabus and a statement of teaching philosophy
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This is the Friday before Spring Break begins. Please let the instructor know if you will not be able to attend class today. |
Pat
Hastings, Faculty Associate, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Debra
Pierce, Faculty Associate, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
CLASS CANCELLED FOR SPRING BREAKPlease party responsibly. (Oh, I forgot, you're all graduate students and will be working, not partying.) |
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From coursework to careers
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Assessment of student learningElaine Klein, Assistant Dean for Academic Planning Readings and resouces (downloadable here):
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CLASS CANCELLED FOR PORTFOLIO WORKPlease work on your final teaching portfolio project. Remember, each student must produce one document related to teaching that can be used for their future professional development. For example:
This document should be emailed to the instructor by the last day of finals week. It should also be shared with the student's primary adviser or mentor in the student's home department.
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Teaching about diversityHemant Shah, Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication Readings and resouces (downloadable here):
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Building an undergraduate certificate program
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Teaching portfolio document dueThere is no final exam for this course. However, you must turn in your teaching portfolio document to the professor and to your adviser by the last day of finals week. Electronic submissions are fine. |
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