Slides from a Teaching Panel Session - 2020 AEJMC Conference - "We’ve Got This: Best Practices in Online Teaching, and How Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication Prepares Us for the Big Pivot Online" Moderating/Presiding Aileen Gallagher, Syracuse Panelists Adam Maksl, Indiana, Southeast Jennifer Palilonis, Ball State Carolyn Hedges, Syracuse Rebecca Cooney, Washington State Damian Radcliffe, Oregon The quick pivot to remote instruction in spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic was challenging for all educators, but as we continue with some forms of online teaching for the foreseeable future because of the pandemic, we as journalism, communication, advertising, and public relations educators should actually embrace it. Why? Because what many of us teach students to do — create digital content that engages audiences and helps them better live their lives — is highly congruent with what we’re being asked to do in the online classroom. This session will discuss the challenges of online teaching and how our digital media knowledge and skills can be used to effectively deliver content, engage students, and model for them the skills we expect them to develop in digital media programs. We’ll also discuss best practices for online teaching and how those congruent skills can be applied to accomplish these goals.

1. Self-care and Student
Engagement in a Remote
Environment - 10 Top Tips
Damian Radcliffe,
University of Oregon
@damianradcliffe
"We’ve Got This: Best Practices in Online Teaching,
and How Teaching Journalism and Mass
Communication Prepares Us for the Big Pivot Online"

2. 1.
MANAGING
BURNOUT
• Embrace ebb and flow
• Lean into your natural biorhythms
• Set limits to your ”Zoom time”

3. 2. Don’t reinvent the wheel
■ Harness existing resources (Google News Lab, Newmark Grad School etc.)
■ Collaborate with colleagues
■ Create resources which can be used across multiple terms
http://bit.ly/
Demystfying
Archive

4. 3. Giving feedback
■ Text
■ Video
■ Audio
■ Groups / Peer Review
■ Zoom 1-1s / Groups

5. 4. Stress professional relevance
■ Not just what you learn in class, but
how you learn it.
■ Distributed newsrooms are a reality.
And here to stay.
■ Resilience – and the ability to produce
quality work remotely.

6. 5. Empathy
■ Share how you are feeling
■ Acknowledge their fears/concerns
■ Be flexible (deadlines, approaches)
■ Seek outside reassurance

7. 6. Office hours more
important than ever
■ Anxieties about:
– Assignments process (e.g. remote interviews)
– Graduating into a recession
– Loss of internernships
v Waiting room - functionality

8. 7. Be hyper-aware of access needs
■ Record all sessions -
opportunity for catch-up via
video and/or audio
■ Wi-Fi and Data costs +
connectivity
■ Screen on / Screen off

9. 8. Breakout rooms are your friend

10. 9. Don’t forget to have fun!
■ Scavenger Hunts
■ Bring your pet to class
■ May the Fourth

11. Resources
■ The future of online learning: “institutional polyamory”
■ Reflection: 25 tips for online teaching
■ 8 great online learning resources for journalists and
journalism educators
■ Lessons learned: 9 takeaways from teaching online
during COVID-19
■ 12 apps journalists can use to record interviews
remotely
■ 10 internship alternatives for the COVID-19 era
(Also available in Portuguese, French and Russian)
Thank you for listening.
damianr@uoregon.edu
@damianradcliffe
www.damianradcliffe.com