8 great online learning resources for journalists and journalism educators
These interactive and video resources mean you don’t have to reinvent the wheel due to COVID-19
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself — like many journalism educators — having to quickly move to online teaching.
Although you can teach an old dog new tricks, I rapidly realized that I did not need to do it all; this was an opportunity to expose my students to a range of valuable, high quality, existing, online learning resources. There is no need to reinvent the wheel, especially when others often had more valuable things to say — and often produced to a higher standard — than I do.
I am sure others have had a similar revelation. Yet, surprisingly, perhaps, when I was planning my syllabi, I found very little discussion about what tools and materials were already “out there.” Instead, most conversations were focussed on how to teach online, rather than what you teach.
There are a plethora of great online materials to harness. I am a big fan of the tipsheets and research summaries provided by Journalist’s Resource, the case studies provided by Storybench, Gather and LenFest, and many many others. I also encourage my students to sign-up for many of the terrific…
