Amy Simons: Simulating newsroom meetings using VoiceThread

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Missouri School of Journalism Professor Amy Simons shares an award-winning assignment she create called "Hold a Monthly Web Strategy Meeting," in which students analyze data and present strategies for growing a news website's traffic.

Students use VoiceThread to present their strategies asynchronously to peers, who respond in the roles of skeptical colleagues. VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia tool that allows people to leave comments using voice, text, audio files, or video.