And so when you come into your class and your
professor says
"we're going to put together a website," half
of the students start to panic,
and the media fellow did a wonderful job of
showing them that this is doable,
you break it down step by step, and that there
was help
for them.
And I think that went a long way
with our students to getting enthusiasm toward
the task.
The major thing that I see as how DigiComm
helps and aids in this process
is giving them a nurturing environment. An
enrivonment where they can learn, and where
they can make mistakes.
I think the idea of the media fellow really is more, for me at least, than a supplement.
In some cases, it is
doing things that I haven't thought to do
before.
I think we worked together, along with the
students, to create this product that had
never been created before.
We have loved the partnership. It aligns very
nicely with where we're going
in terms of literacy and as people share more
information online.
As they share more information digitally,
we are seeing changes in how people read what
they read, where they seek information, and
we need to be preparing teachers to teach
kids who are growing up with iPhones, with
iPads, with Facebook.
All these things we didn't have.
I know their world is much more digital than
mine. And I think some of them learned some
skills that
they were kind of shocked and surprised that
they had.
It's a kind of a nice synergy for us to work
with DigiComm
and to work with people who are on that cutting-edge,
and to help us
think through how we're going to continue
to prepare teachers.
