About the last thing I thought I needed was another blog.
To date, I already have a very successful cycling blog, Triple Crankset. We have been credentialed for the Tour of California the past two years.
And I have blogs for classes I teach in Online Journalism, Sports Writing & Reporting and Political Journalism.
A blog for History of Journalism, which I begin teaching in the fall, is sure to follow.
But back to WAM! — Writing Across Media! This will become the class blog for Comm303, our basic Journalism course in Associated Press Style and learning how to write — you guessed it! — across media platforms.
Textbooks can’t keep up the news and information that becomes available 24/7. I can’t keep printing out stories or saving them online, creating PDFs or simply trusting word of mouth to share (remember: sharing is the new learning!) all the new information that is available.
So, here’s yet another blog for the blogosphere. It may get lost out there, but if our Comm303 students know about it and use it, then we will create our own universe while being part of the greater 24/7 one.