As part of my teaching philosophy, I incorporate digital media into all my classes. This includes using websites, blogs, social media, mobile devices, photography, video and audio.
One of my favorite projects to date is “Farm to Fork: Investigating Agriculture,” created by the WKU Fleischaker-Greene Scholars class I taught in 2010.
I love this video by Colleen Stewart. We had the opportunity to go to India as part of a team of WKU students and faculty covering the World Newspaper Congress. While there, we investigated the epidemic of farmer suicides:
Farmer Suicides India from Fleischaker-Greene Scholars on Vimeo.
In the same class, we made extensive use of Vuvox, an interactive graphic timeline. Look at this cool piece by Regina Durkan, with photography by Chris Fryer, about an English professor who started raising his own chickens:
In 2011, I incorporated live Twitter coverage into my reporting class at Bowling Green State University. Students were assigned to live-Tweet the Black Swamp Arts Festival and then create Storify versions of the event. Here’s one example by student Sarah Bailey:
I practiced my own multimedia skills at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute’s Multimedia Boot Camp and Advanced Multimedia Boot Camp in Nashville, Tenn., in 2009 and 2010.
I co-produced this mini-documentary about Bobby’s Idle Hour, a legendary Nashville bar famous for singer-songwriters, with Joe Grimm of the Michigan State University School of Journalism.
I also produced this one-minute video with Jennifer Golson of The Star-Ledger: