Some of you are asking what equipment you should bring. I'll have that information with the syllabus and other materials in the next two weeks.Here's a preview:
If you have a digital camera, please bring it. If your camera needs a cord to offload photos via USB or Firewire connection, please bring that too. We'll have card readers to pass around. You will take photos in sessions and for the institute's online publication. If you don't have a digital camera, it will be no problem for you to borrow one.
I strongly recommend bringing a USB flash drive if you have one. You'll be able to store items on the school's servers, but participants have found flash drives a good way to back up and tote assignments and to share materials.
As for laptops, you might find one useful for working at the hotel. But you'll have access to the school's computers throughout. And we'll have a laptops-off policy during sessions.
For video training, you'll work with school-issued equipment.
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Thank you for getting us up and running on the blog. You are predicting many of the questions I intended to ask. Camera--check. Laptop--check.
ReplyDeleteI see that it will be over 100 in Phoenix for the next several days. Hope it is a dry heat!
Everything looks like it's coming together nicely. Looking forward to it! As people post, will you put a little extra info, such as:
ReplyDeleteI'm Jeff Fencl and I live in Albuquerque, NM now, but grew up in Phoenix and earned my Journalism degree at Northern Arizona University. Just looking to get to know some of you early on...
I'm a little nervous -- but very interested in updating and learning new skills. Lynn Dulcie, raised in Cleveland Ohio, now native to South Carolina, teaching journalism, English and Creative Writing and, as of the 2009-2010 year, the new yearbook adviser (help?!) Only in teaching for 5 years -- this is all new to me. Have been in writing/publishing/editing for 20 years.
ReplyDeleteMost of what I know about journalism is self-taught, so I'm really excited to get some "real" training! Juli Stricklan, raised in SoCal but married to an Idaho boy and back "home" in Idaho for the past 11 years. Trampus Willis: I don't think you're going to have to worry about "dry" in Phoenix. It's all dry (heat, cold, wind, rain). ;)
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