The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Thursday, March 01, 2012

COMM 353: "One-minute" type essay on course content

NOTE TO STUDENTS: Those of us who were in class today wrote out answers to these questions, printed out copies and emailed backup copies to me. If you weren't in class (and you know who you are), email them to me.

1. What have you learned about editing so far in COMM 353?

2. What did you know at the beginning of the semester?

3. What have you picked up from reading Nancy Brigham, Carol Saller and other handouts/Web sites, etc.?

4. What have you earned so far about editing, production, etc. – the actual process of getting a publication on the street – so far from the Bulldog Bytes project?

5. What would you like to learn in the second half of the semester?
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.