Mobilizing Faculty into the Future: Using Online Technology as Teaching Tools

and creativity. Students later transferred these skills to weekly critiques of the magazine stories that they and their
classmates produced.
Students used the rest of the semester to produce the magazine program. I served as executive producer, providing
structure and guidance to the student producers. Each week, half the class worked in pairs to interview local experts,
gather location footage, write scripts and assemble their stories. The remainder of the class was in the television
studios with me, recording a finished program live. I met with the entire class once a week to provide additional
training. The following week, students who had been in the field were rotated to the studio, and vice versa.
I had students use social media to critique each other’s stories, and to learn from what their classmates were doing.
By the end of the semester, students had produced eight episodes of Black Hills Revealed, a public affairs program
that has been well received by the local community.
This project gave students first-hand experience developing each of the skillsets that hiring managers say they value
most: a) Researching questions in one’s field and developing evidence based analyses (the audience analysis and program
proposal); b) Completing a significant project before graduation that demonstrates in-depth knowledge in a major
and the acquisition of analytic, problem solving and communication skills (audience analysis, program proposal,
program scripts, interviewing skills); and c) Conducting a community based field project that connects the classroom
with real-world experiences (conducting on-camera interviews, producing stories on deadline and working in a television
studio as part of a team) (AACU 2013, 10).
Assignment as Given to Students:
http://mcom331bhsu.blogspot.com/
I will post video segments here [to the blog] that have been submitted by you and your classmates for the KBHU-TV
production, Black Hills Revealed.
Please watch each of the videos as they’re posted and critique them according to the posted criteria. Be sure that
your comments to the producers are both constructive and kind.
The contents of this website are restricted to the members of this class. If you’d like others to see your work, please
link to KBHU-TV’s homepage or the Black Hills Revealed Facebook page.
--------------------------------------------[Sample Rating Form]-----------------------------------
Please rate this magazine segment according to the dimensions outlined below. Cite video time code wherever relevant
to your comments. Example: “The video is overexposed at 03:15.”
Storytelling Quality
Please rate the quality of the story itself.
1 2 3 4 5
Poor
Excellent
Explain your reasons for rating the storytelling the way you did.
Story Pacing
Please rate how well the story is paced.
1 2 3 4 5
Poor
Excellent
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