While students reporting (both positively and negatively) about their courses, professors, etc., is nothing new, this article is an interesting read in this day of Twitter and live blogging. I wonder how faculty here at Dartmouth would respond?
From the PBS MediaShift site.
After New York University journalism student Alana Taylor wrote her first embed report for MediaShift on September 5, it didn't take long for her scathing criticism of NYU to spread around the web and stir conversations. Taylor thought that her professor, Mary Quigley, was not up to speed on social media and podcasting -- even though the class she was teaching was called "Reporting Gen Y." [Continue to full article]
Depressing that a journalism professor would censor students.
In reading the blog it did not seem like the comments were all that critical. I once had an online review from a student that said:
"he is ambiguous and annoying and kinda looks like a troll"
http://ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=597422
Posted by: Joshua Kim | February 13, 2009 at 01:56 PM