Student Instruction Rating System (SIRS Online) collects student
feedback on courses and instruction at MSU. Student Instructional
Rating System (SIRS Online) forms will be available for your students to
submit feedback during the dates indicated:
JRN 200 005: 11/24/2014 - 12/24/2014
Students will receive an email from the SIRS Online system when evaluations are available and you may also direct students to https://sirsonline.msu.edu.
Students are required to complete the SIRS Online form OR indicate
within that form that they decline to participate. Otherwise, final
grades (for courses using SIRS Online) will be sequestered for seven
days following the course grade submission deadline for this semester.
SIRS Online rating summaries are available to instructors and department chairs after 12/24/2014 at https://sirsonline.msu.edu.
Instructors should provide copies of the rating summaries to graduate
assistants who assisted in teaching their course(s). Rating information
collected by SIRS Online is reported in summary form only and cannot be
linked to individual student responses. Student anonymity is carefully
protected.
If you have any questions, please contact Michelle Carlson, (mcarlson@msu.edu, 432-5936).
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Out-Of-Class #3: No Time For Fatals ...
... yet we had a bunch.
In one story, inside of a quote we spelled significant as significate. A misspelling inside of a quote that changes what was uttered is an automatic fatal.
In another story's quote, we wrote go when we meant gone. That again is a fatal.
In yet another story's quote, we said, "there will students ..." when I think you meant, "there will be students ..." Dropping that word is a fatal.
In another story, we wrote that a teacher was walking down the isles, when we meant aisles. There is a difference that changes the meaning here; an aisle is a walkway, while isles are groups of islands. That's a fatal.
In another story, we identified a police sergeant as being with the Lansing Police Department. In fact, she was with the MSU Police Department.
Now, what are the solutions? You know 'em. We've gone over those time and time again. We need to be implementing those solutions, and never skipping a single step.
And that's no matter how well you've done to date. One person who fataled has been downright brilliant in this class sofar, and this person still fataled on something simple like a spelling.
One more time: avoiding fatals has nothing to do with talent; just vigilance.
In one story, inside of a quote we spelled significant as significate. A misspelling inside of a quote that changes what was uttered is an automatic fatal.
In another story's quote, we wrote go when we meant gone. That again is a fatal.
In yet another story's quote, we said, "there will students ..." when I think you meant, "there will be students ..." Dropping that word is a fatal.
In another story, we wrote that a teacher was walking down the isles, when we meant aisles. There is a difference that changes the meaning here; an aisle is a walkway, while isles are groups of islands. That's a fatal.
In another story, we identified a police sergeant as being with the Lansing Police Department. In fact, she was with the MSU Police Department.
Now, what are the solutions? You know 'em. We've gone over those time and time again. We need to be implementing those solutions, and never skipping a single step.
And that's no matter how well you've done to date. One person who fataled has been downright brilliant in this class sofar, and this person still fataled on something simple like a spelling.
One more time: avoiding fatals has nothing to do with talent; just vigilance.
Job Shadows: What You Saw, Part 2
Here's
a
sampling of some of the various job shadows done by you all (this will
be updated as job shadow reports are turned in, so please check back
frequently). Take a look
and see what you can learn from everyone's visits. There's a lot of
good stuff here to help you decide what you want to do with your lives;
what you need to be doing to get there; and what to expect when you do
get there.
Please give each one of these a quick read, will you?
Please give each one of these a quick read, will you?
*****
While
exploring job shadows opportunities, it was very confusing to decide what I
wanted to do with this job shadow experience — I’ve already worked at a
newspaper and at a radio station, so broadcast was the only one I haven’t
explored. Omar happened to call me to his office one day at work and offered me
to do a job shadow with freelancer Steve Friess.
I’m
not going to lie; when Omar first told me about him I agreed because I thought
it was going to be a challenge find a job shadow on my day off at work. Besides
that, I had no idea who Steve Friess was, so my journalistic sense started to
look on Google who was Steve Friess and what his work consisted. Steve Friess’
work has appeared in Politico, New York Times, USA Today, The Daily Beast and
most recently in Al Jazeera America. Friess worked in Beijing as a
correspondent too.
Friess
picked me up at MSU on Sep. 18. We went to the Michigan State Capitol where we
met with state Rep. Joseph Haveman of Holland, Michigan and the chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee. He is a Republican who is sponsoring
legislation that might help alleviate the expenses of the prison system by
finding ways to release elderly prisoners. Friess told me he was an interesting
source for his in-depth story about America’s problem retaining older people in
prison.
It
was very interesting to go to the MI Capitol for the first time and see the
dynamic between a real, famous journalist and a state representative. Friess
was very straightforward with his questions and would not mind at all to ask
follow-ups. He would analyze and listen to Haveman; he would then ask
questions. Friess was not afraid either of asking for help — he asked the
representative to help him go into one of the prisons with the highest
population of elderly people in Michigan.
After
the meeting with Rep. Haveman, we met with some groups of advocates for elderly
people in prison. They were very helpful and they told us about their day
lobbying in the Capitol. There, I had the opportunity to see Friess interact
with some of the advocates and he even let me record one of the interviews. He
would constantly ask me questions about the interviews, like asking me for
feedback. He was really helpful and genuinely cared about my learning
experience with him.
After
the interviews, we talked about his journalism career and tips to become a
better journalist. He told me he graduated from Northwestern University’s
Medill School of Journalism. He told me the best thing I can do, as a
journalist, is to ask questions and then, ask more questions. It was an amazing
opportunity and I’m extremely grateful to have the opportunity to job shadow
Steve Friess.
*****
On Saturday October 11 the Detroit Red Wings played the Anaheim ducks at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. While the teams were getting dressed in their respective locker rooms I was climbing the back stairs up to the uncharacteristically small press box with Helene St. James.
Shadowing Helene St. James was so exciting for me. I learned a lot and all my expectations were met and were exceeded.
*****
*****
On Saturday October 11 the Detroit Red Wings played the Anaheim ducks at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. While the teams were getting dressed in their respective locker rooms I was climbing the back stairs up to the uncharacteristically small press box with Helene St. James.
Helene
is the Red Wings beat writer for the Detroit Free Press. She’s been working for
the paper since 1996.
After
emailing back and forth for about a month we finally settled on the Anaheim
game for me to shadow her. For me even walking in the media entrance and
picking up my media pass was amazing. I then got to walk in the bottom of the
Joe past the Zamboni entrance, past the visitor’s locker room and met Helene in
the media dining room. I was excited and
nervous. I know that I want to be in the press box for hockey games as a career
but I had never been in one until that game. It lived up to all my
expectations.
While
the teams below were warming up and fans were pouring into their general
admission seats Helene and I talked about the career she’s had and exactly what
she does for each game.
Every
game morning she attends the morning skate and after writes a summary of what
to expect that night. During the game she writes a detailed outline of what
exactly happens during the game. She details penalties, goals, and assists.
Also during the game she writes her story. During the game she also gets an
idea who she wants to interview after the game and what questions she wants to
ask them.
During the game I
just sat beside Helene and watched her and the other journalists work. Helene
seemed to know everyone in the box. At one point Kris Draper, who had been in
an adjoining room with Mickey Redmond and Ken Daniels broadcasting for Fox
Sports Detroit, walked by and stopped to say hello to Helene. As he was walking
away he said hello to me as well. I grew up watching Draper play for the Red
Wings and so for him to see me and say hello to me was pretty amazing. I wasn’t really doing anything during the
game but it was still a great experience just to be in that atmosphere and get
a feel for what I would be doing in the future.
One tip she gave
me was that as a reporter you technically cannot root for one team or another
but you root for the game to end in regulation. If the game goes into overtime
and/or a shootout it messes with the 10:25pm deadline. That night all the
reporters were big Ryan Getzlaf of Anaheim fans as he scored the game’s winning
goal with about 20 seconds left in regulation.
My
favorite part of the whole night was when we basically ran to the locker room
after the game for the post-game comments from the players and coach. Luke
Glendening, Niklas Kronwall, Gustav Nyquist, Henrik Zetterberg and Coach Mike
Babcock all came out to speak to the reporters in the locker room. Helene was
the most vocal one, asking most of the questions. I was surprised to see how
few reporters were actually in the room. There were only about seven of them. I
was the youngest person in the room by about five years and aside from Helene
the only woman in the room. After Coach Babcock was done speaking, Helene went
back to the media dining room to add the quotes into her story and add the
finishing touches before sending it in.
When she went to
finish her story I left her to write and walked back to meet my dad who was
waiting for me outside. As I passed the visitor’s locker room on my way out,
Anaheim’s Ryan Kesler walked right in front of me. I realized I could be in
this profession when I didn’t try to talk to him or ask him for a picture. It may
sound like a small, obvious thing but
for me not to ask for anything from one of the game’s stars, or even cheer when
the Red Wings scored that night, was a big accomplishment for me and I knew I
could handle the professionalism that has to come with the job.
Shadowing Helene St. James was so exciting for me. I learned a lot and all my expectations were met and were exceeded.OOC MM #3: Let's Look At Everything!
Here
are links to all our preview and recap posts, and tweet streams, on
order in which they were turned in to me (the first one is first, and
the last one is last).
Let's compare the work of each other and see what we did well, and what ideas we can get from others. Also, examine how the mediums complement each other: the preview does just that; the tweet stream allows you to follow what was previewed, as it actually happens; and the recap wraps it all up. Here we go:
*****
Kelsey F.: community aid video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #phsshoebox
*****
Jason R.: awareness campaign video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #itsonusjrn200
*****
Laurel Y.: international students video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #internstu200
*****
Emma-Jean B.: gay rights video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #gayrights
*****
Romero H.: roommate assignments video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200goingblind
*****
Anna S.: drinking on campus video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200drinking
*****
Chelsea S.: drinking age video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200wasted
*****
Asha D.: college stress video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #collegeistoomuchjrn200
*****
Meg D.: social media video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #socialmediajrn200
*****
Travis D.: sleep habits video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #theneed4sleep
*****
Sergio M.-B.: study abroad video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #educationabroadmsu
*****
Mary A.: nutrition in college video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #nutritionincollege
*****
Alana E.: black/white parties video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets
*****
Maddie S.: college drinking video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200drinking
*****
Emily N.: student health video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn2health
*****
Let's compare the work of each other and see what we did well, and what ideas we can get from others. Also, examine how the mediums complement each other: the preview does just that; the tweet stream allows you to follow what was previewed, as it actually happens; and the recap wraps it all up. Here we go:
*****
Kelsey F.: community aid video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #phsshoebox
*****
Jason R.: awareness campaign video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #itsonusjrn200
*****
Laurel Y.: international students video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #internstu200
*****
Emma-Jean B.: gay rights video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #gayrights
*****
Romero H.: roommate assignments video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200goingblind
*****
Anna S.: drinking on campus video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200drinking
*****
Chelsea S.: drinking age video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200wasted
*****
Asha D.: college stress video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #collegeistoomuchjrn200
*****
Meg D.: social media video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #socialmediajrn200
*****
Travis D.: sleep habits video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #theneed4sleep
*****
Sergio M.-B.: study abroad video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #educationabroadmsu
*****
Mary A.: nutrition in college video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #nutritionincollege
*****
Alana E.: black/white parties video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets
*****
Maddie S.: college drinking video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn200drinking
*****
Emily N.: student health video and blog post and follow-up post and tweets #jrn2health
*****
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Fatals: One Last One
KCTV chief meteorologist Chris Suchan laughs and tells me that “sometimes you’re up against the clock” and type ASS when you mean AS. (That’s his colleague, Gary Amble, on the air this morning.)
Courtesy jimromenesko.com.
Out-Of-Class #2 Rewrite: A Great Example
JRN 200
11/4/14
Slug: Social Media Benefits
In a era of #YOLO and #tbt, members
of the Michigan State University community say virtual communication has
positive uses beyond trending hashtags and meaningless texting.
MSU students, professors and
researchers said social media sites and other online communities aid education
and information-sharing.
According to Christine Greenhow, an assistant professor in
the College of Education at MSU, online communities can be beneficial to student
learning.
“Now, with low barriers to online
participation and widespread adoption of mobile internet-connected devices
students can seek and solicit help from their online social networks as well as
readily share ideas and information,” said Greenhow via email.
In a study published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, four
sections of the same class used Twitter for class purposes and three sections
did not. The Twitter using sections reported higher engagement levels
and had a higher average GPA, beating the non-Tweeting group by about 0.5 points
on a 0-4.0 scale.
MSU senior Mitchell Alpiner said he
likes using Twitter for class activities because he hates “watching a talking
head reading off a PowerPoint slide that's posted online. Reading and
interacting and making snarky comments keeps me engaged in the material, and
helps me feel like I have a voice in the class.”
Karl Gude, Graphics Editor-in-Residence in The College of Communication Arts and
Sciences at MSU, said he uses social media in his classes as a way for
students to collaborate and ask questions.
“It’s dynamite for online classes.
Student can communicate when you’re not around and it even allows students
around the world to collaborate with students on campus,” said Gude.
Beyond class use, students said
they utilized social media to gather information about friends, celebrities and
various businesses.
“I just like to check to see what’s
going on with people that I know” along with “musicians, and actors that I like
and companies that I would like to find stuff out about,” said MSU freshman
Nicholas Russo.
Russo said he checks Twitter every
couple of hours throughout the day and discovers new information posted about
events and business promotions.
According to Brandon Van Der Heide,
an assistant professor and researcher of communication at MSU, the presence of
businesses on social media and online customer reviews has increased customer
knowledge and awareness.
Research from the Harvard Business
Review Analytics Services said 50 percent of businesses that use social media
claim their target customers have an “increased awareness of our organization,
products or services” due to social media accounts.
Van Der Heide said the availability
of information on social media “is certainly different from the way we used to
find out about a good restaurant. It used to be the case that you would either
hear about it from a friend primarily, or advertisements or a mass media
source.”
According to Van Der Heide, online
communication is not replacing in-person interactions but is just a different
way to give and receive information.
Van der Heide said, “Often people
will tend to assume face to face communication is this gold standard where in
really true interpersonal messages can be transmitted,” but online
communication is an effective way to quickly share information.
MSU freshman Grace Hough said she prefers
to meet up with people in-person but she relies on texting for a convenient way
to arrange meeting times and places.
“It’s fun to meet up with people
places instead of just texting them because you can do things like meet in a
cafeteria and have coffee with someone, and it’s just fun to interact and be
around people,” said Hough.
Alpiner said he also prefers to
meet up with people in-person because “being in-person lets me react quicker
and hear the inflection, as well as see the body language of the people I'm
interacting with.”
Alpiner said though in-person
communication has benefits, he also enjoys online communication because “being
online gives me a few more seconds and minutes to think about what I'm going to
say next.”
According to Van Der Heide, people
use social media and other online communities to carefully craft messages and
express their best qualities, but this is not a new concept.
“We’ve always had the hand written
letter so we have always had the opportunity to carefully present ourselves,
but I think the ubiquity and the ease of access to computer mediated
communication has led to a more regular use of that kind of thing,” said Van
Der Heide.
Van Der Heide said the availability
of social media also helps people communicate with friends and family who are
far away.
According to a Common Sense Media
research study, 88 percent of teens with social media accounts said it helped
them keep in touch with friends they cannot see regularly.
Hough said she uses social media
and texting to communicate with her sisters who are in high school because she
cannot see them in-person very often.
“It’s a nice way to keep in touch,”
said Hough.
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Christine Greenhow
Assistant Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special
Education
Ed.D., Harvard University
http://www.cgreenhow.org/
513F Erickson
517-432-0425
Brandon Van Der Heide
Assistant Professor of Communication
Mitchell Alpiner
MSU Senior
alpiner.mitchell@gmail.com
Nicholas Russo
MSU Sophomore
810-860-8385
Grace Hough
Freshman
616-298-5899
houghgra@msu.edu
Harvard Business
Review Analytics Services http://www.sas.com/resources/whitepaper/wp_23348.pdf
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/administration/president/sparc/meetings/docs/StudentEngagementArticle.pdf
Common Sense Media
Research
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