University of Stirling, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Division of Communications, Media and Culture
Our students from Nanjing University have sent us a short message of support and encouragement along with their generous donation of masks for our University community. Dear students, we thank you for your generous donation!
The University of Stirling has posted this message on their official Weibo account.
Thank you to Xinhua Daily, the newspaper of the Jiangsu Committee of the Communist Party of China for their article about us! A longer version of this article published in Xinhua Daily in Chinese is available via their website – here.
Our initiative was widely publicised in Jiangsu Province:
Using #novel settings to #simulate#fieldwork, encourage #collaboration & help #resilience & #creativity places #journalism#students in situations similar to what journalists #experience in their #practice. Featured @office365, @CanvasLMS & @labster.
Putting students in unwonted situations is #important for their #development and #confidence. I split my #students into #PR practitioners and #journalists. I disturb the #news #briefing. Students use #AI based #tech to react. The #presentation continues.
When students cannot visit my office, we use #Office365 tools to #work together on #files, to #call or #share screens. The #advantage for me is that this is much faster than #email; the advantage for the #student is the #live #interaction with their #lecturer.
Engaging audiences you don’t know isn’t easy. Polling webware helps me check what #students know. I then highlight the points which need #improvement. At the end we revisit the same questions and students see how their #knowledge evolves in the #lecture.
I work with the belief that students should document and reflect on their academic and extracurricular work. This vide reflects on the experiences of my students when organising the Week of Chinese Culture. During the first week of October 2019, our 2019 cohort of Nanjing University students showcased their work with us, held presentations, screenings of non-fictional and fictional short films aimed at increasing the awareness of the Chinese culture among the wider University community.
This event marked the 70th anniversary of People’s Republic of China. Our University community was able to learn more about traditional instruments, painting, food, calligraphy, dances, dresses, paper cutting and much more. Our Nanjing journalism students were joined by members of the Chinese Society on campus who performed an original song, a dance and helped with demonstrations in this event.
#Living on a #Digital#Campus#3Dprint helps students make objects which I use in lectures. This makes them part of the #teaching process and increases their #engagement. They feel their contribution matters. Preparing materials I use turns #students into #colleagues
Address by Dayman Kachulski, Programme Director
Dear students,
I want to congratulate you on the successful completion of the journalism programme as part of the Nanjing Exchange Project 2019! I know my colleagues would echo my words in saying that you have a lot to be proud of because you have done an amazing job.
Your persistence has led you to complete all assignments successfully, publish numerous articles, produce, direct, shoot and edit excellent pieces of reportage, designed and 3D-print exceptional 3D objects, improve your employability opportunities and visit great media companies. Your hard work has generated over 1100 unique visits on your website; you have done an excellent job and have made everybody proud!
Apart from your academic achievements, what I have been most impressed with is your ability to face all difficulties head on – you did not take them as challenges, but as opportunities to learn and improve yourselves! Never lose the passion with which you work! It is your work ethic that will take you far!
Damyan Kachulski, Programme Director
As part of the exchange programmes I run, Elaine Watson and I created a simulated job interview process for my Nanjing University Journalism exchange students whereby they respond to a job offer by sending their CVs which they would have had to write for classes. Then they would be shortlisted for an interview which was with the Master in Human Resource Management students. This exercise was part of the Employability component of the China exchange programmes on which Elaine Watson is the main tutor, and we also used the help of Lena Bauchop from the Careers and Employability Service. I was very happy that Lynn Whiteside from Stirling Management School joined us on the day and organised for the Master in Human Resource Management students to interview the journalism students. The most important aspect of it for me was the collaborative work between the academic faculties and the professional services which always results in higher student satisfaction, on the one hand; and the application of the skills the student learned in class in a real-life scenario, or as close to it as possible, on the other. For the students it was a great experience which not only made them practice their skills, but also made them think actively about their future career plans and how to get there. One of the students got a graduate internship with a big media corporation based on the CV he wrote for this class. One student who shared her thoughts about this experience said “We seldom understand how to apply what we learn in class in real life. Now we do!”.