The importance of being questioned
The woman asked me "How would you rate yourself in transferring the knowledge to your students?" The question stumped me for a bit since different students The interview was about the facilitation of the practical component of the Online Multimedia Journalism course at the University of Guyana. I have been involved in the course since its first delivery. The woman was doing research around the use of ICTs in journalism. I told her the most challenging aspect of teaching the course was that an average of 10% of the students are interested in journalism, and that reinforcing journalism principles required much more work than the ICT component. The new programme is in its fifth year , time flies and I realised that the delivery has not been peer evaluated. It has not been easy teaching Online Multimedia Journalism when the Internet is slow in the lab so that the Online part sometimes has to be demonstrated or imagined or left for students to pursue in their own time. I...