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Using experiential learning to create passion about your subject in your students.

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Reviewed:: Nov 21, 2016 by Teacher Education

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Overview:: Marcy teaches broadcast voice and presentation classes in the television studio at Stony Brook. She discusses how she tries to "light a fire" within her students to get them excited about the course. She talks about teaching by example and how she provides positive feedback to her students as they perform on camera. Marcy describes the cutting edge School of Journalism newsroom that allows students to work across multimedia platforms including text, video, audio and online. She also describes the video essays produced by the advanced broadcast students and the capstone course, a graduation requirement for all seniors. Marcy is joined by Phil Altiere who discusses how to build and configure teaching facilities for the journalists of tomorrow. In addition, Phil discusses the impact that multimedia has on teaching and emphasizes the importance of using video demonstrations and field experience as teaching tools.
Type of Material:: Development Tool
Recommended Uses:: The best of use of this video is for a self-paced professional development experience. It can be used to gain ideas regarding how technology can be integrated into the teaching of journalism.
Technical Requirements:: Any browser that can run video or the YouTube app.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: The major learning goal is to define experiential learning and to discuss how it can be used to teach journalism.
Target Student Population:: Faculty who teach introduction to journalism and broadcast classes and department chairs may be interested in viewing these videos. As well college level aspiring and current educators in high school or higher ed would gain value from this site.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Pre-req knowledge: Experience in or learning about education. No skills other than ability to use a computer, browser or mobile device that can run video.

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Strengths:: The video is an interview of a dean of the school of journalism. It introduces and builds on concepts. It begins by defining experiential learning; discusses its uses; and how different people can apply the concepts inside the journalism classroom and in the real world.
Concerns:: Accurate subtitles and/or a transcript would be beneficial and better comply with ADA regulations.

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Strengths:: Learning objectives are how to use experiential learning to teach in any discipline. This is a video that targets educators to enhance teaching by engaging learners via multimedia. That this material is done via multimedia (a video) makes it particularly worthwhile. The video can be incorporated into educator development classes or education classes for aspiring instructors. Good assignments can be easily written.

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Strengths:: The videos are easy to understand and can be run by anyone who knows the commonly known video icons. Three videos should be played sequentially since they build on previous knowledge.
Concerns:: The only problem is the lack of "official" subtitling.

Other Issues and Comments:: The material has not been updated since 2010, may be slightly out of date, but the concepts still hold true today.
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