JCCC Journalism Students Participate in Media Literacy Workshop (via Zoom)

Posted on 10/06/2020 by dfdavis
Last Wednesday, the JCCC Journalism students participated in a three-hour Media Literacy Workshop (via Zoom) with students from Park University and Center High School.  Speakers included journalists from the KC Star and from European news organizations, as well as American and European journalism professors. How to recognize the difference between real news and disinformation. The JCCC students will have an opportunity to write articles for a student publication dedicated to the topic of media literacy and participate in a podcast.
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Reynolds’ Poem Published

Posted on 10/06/2020 by dfdavis

Tom Reynolds’ poem “Cage Fighter” is included in the “Teaching Issue” (Volume 36, Issue 2) of Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. It appears in the section “Women, Poems, Sport,” featuring works from several poets, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. The teaching issue is “designed to provide an instructor with a text that can be used to . . .  encourage students to explore the intersection of sport culture with race, class, gender and other twenty-first century issues.”

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Cryer’s Panel Proposal Accepted

Posted on 10/06/2020 by dfdavis

Dan Cryer’s panel proposal was accepted to the 2021Conference on College Composition and Communication conference. The title of his panel is “Writing Programs and the Climate Crisis: Cases Studies of Institutional Ecologies, Sustainability, and Ecocomposition.” Dr. Cryer will discuss the history of student involvement in our JCCC sustainability program, after having interviewed our faculty, students, and staff for the piece. The plan is to publish this work in a forthcoming anthology.

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Danny Alexander Presents

Posted on 09/29/2020 by dfdavis
Date:
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, October 7, 2020
Location:
Online

Danny Alexander with a copy of "Salem's Lot."

 

JCCC’s Great Books Mini-Lecture Series will host a virtual speaker Oct. 7 about Salem’s Lot by Stephen King.

Get a glimpse into “the great books” that impact readers’ lives.

Join Danny Alexander, Professor of English, as he reflects on the conflicts behind a small town’s new supernatural resident in Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. Participants must register to receive the Zoom link for the lecture.

https://www.jccc.edu/events/2020/1007-great-books-salems-lot.html?fbclid=IwAR0IgpA4y1ZKQvFmZLWrIdrUl4pBbF0kSFM_Y7KQRi_3IDVxuDgu-ux-jck

 

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Dan Cryer Publishes Article

Posted on 09/22/2020 by dfdavis

Dan’s article on concealed carry, “The Good Man Shooting Well: Authoritarian Submission and Aggression in the ‘Gun-Citizen,’” is in the current issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Here’s the link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02773945.2020.1748219

It’s paywalled, but if anyone is interested in reading it Dan is happy to pass along a copy.

 

 

 

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