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.
Authors
Asmaa Albadawi, M.A.T.
Areas of expertise include language arts and science education, educational pedagogy, learner engagement, classroom management, curriculum design/development, and instructional coaching.
Liz du Plessis, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Dr. Liz du Plessis is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism (1999) and Indiana University's U.S. history doctoral program (2009). She discovered her love for distance education while teaching correspondence and online courses for Indiana University. She earned a master of education in information science and learning technologies from Mizzou in 2011. Since then, she has been an instructional designer for the California Community Colleges system, MU Health Care and Missouri Online. She now serves as an instructional design manager for Missouri Online and has taught as an adjunct online instructor for the MU Department of History.
