As part of my BU Teaching and Learning Fellowship 2016-2017, I decided to run a FREE webinar on Mobile Journalism and Social Media. As part of my fellowship, I was awarded £2000 to travel to the United States, first to Seattle to visit a colleague who I had met at a previous conference and also to meet with some gamers to start thinking about another research project. My second stop was Chicago, where I attended the 100^th conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and wow, was that mindblowing!

5,000 academics from across the United States and the rest of the world convened in Chicago (not a bad place to visit if you get the chance!) to talk all things journalism. “Fake news” came up… A LOT, and that fella, er, Trump, I think his name is… but we also spent a lot of time talking about social media and mobile journalism.

It was here that I talked to colleagues about what I was doing in my classroom back at BU. I was able to share what I learned, the pitfalls, the unexpected highs. I shared contact details, assessment briefs, best practice and of course, advertised my webinar, which I hosted on October 3, 2017.  The webinar built upon the AEJMC conference and also a previous conference I attended in 2016, the World Journalism Education Council. 

The webinar was attended by colleagues from around the world, hailing from as far as Australia and South Africa and as close as Coventry!

For more information on how to run webinars or if you need any support, please get in touch: aluce@bournemouth.ac.uk

So buckle up, and settle down… the next three hours is riveting!