I have returned recently from two very intensive weeks of teaching at Katho in Belgium. It has been exhausting but extremely exciting at the same time. This is a partnership that has been going on since December 2008 and it has been a tremendous opportunity for teaching about and with new media, anesthetist both […]
Following the media coverage of the EUPRERA EuroBlog Social Media Award in Scotland, page here’s some (positive) coverage of my Katho New Media course in the Arabic Bahraini press. It just says I taught there. Ana al ayam View more documents from Ana ADI Ana alwatan View more documents from Ana ADI
This semester saw me developing and teaching a new extensive course. Following the positive evaluations received from the students taking the New Media course at Katho and their calls for more specialized courses, prostate I was asked to prepare and deliver an introductory course on Branding. The course After extensive research of other branding courses […]
I have started teaching as a Visiting Lecturer at Katho in December 2008. I was returning to the institution that hosted me as an exchange student 5 years earlier. I swapped position in the classroom – from the student’s seat to the lecturer’s spotlight. When I wrote the New Media course syllabus I wanted it […]
I have just finished delivering the 6th edition of the New Media course at Katho. This is the 3rd consecutive year when I join Katho for 2 weeks during each semester to deliver a course that I developed on my own and that combines theoretical information about creative industries – journalism, advertising and public relations […]
Another visit to Belgium is over and with it another successful delivery of the Katho New Media course. A big thank you goes to the students for their enthusiasm and hard work and to the Katho Hantal and those in charge of the Erasmus exchange program for making this happen again. Also a very big […]
The two weeks of the Katho New Media course came and passed quickly. I had a smaller class this time which enabled me to better interact with the students and follow closer their progress. This also meant that the course was more intense (and intensive) as the teams were smaller. Unlike with the previous semesters […]
A vitual lesson from Citizens’ Eye This is the fourth semester when I deliver my New Media course at Katho but up until this month the lecture on community media and citizen journalism was perhaps the most abstract one. Although my students and I explore and question every semester the role of journalism and media […]
On Friday, there December 11, I delivered a lecture to Alan McCusker-Thompson‘s 3rd year students undertaking a BA in Commercial Music at UWS in Ayr. The module in which this lecture was included focuses on Popular Culture and Music. My talk therefore had to show how the internet and Web 2.0 in particular has enabled, through open […]
Today is the final day of my New Media course that I teach to Erasmus students attending courses at Katho-Hantal. It is a day dedicated to a company visit during which students can see live what they’ve heard about while in class. This was the third semester when I taught the course and due to […]
At the end of the New Media course I taught in Belgium, information pills I kindly asked the students to fill in an online evaluation survey. This enabled me to see how the students perceived their course experience, whether they believed they benefited from the classes as well as to determine what areas of the […]
