Posts Tagged ‘Teaching’

It is that time of the year again. i trudge down to Kalina and correct papers. The students who finish this course go on to become journalists .. and they come up with some gems. .
The University is still in the last century. Rows of table and plastic chairs, high ceilings and background chatter. It [...]

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University corrections continue… and i relieve the utter tedium by jotting down interesting bits from answers. Here are today’s picks:

As soon as TV media came into picture, most of the media had fallen week
Then to there is no death for newspaper media
In the field of politics it is giving us recent info (on television news [...]

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… University corrections began today…. in the few that i managed to plough through here are some sparkling gems. (italics mine)

There are some people like women who want a whole bunch of articles from themselves like cookery, fashion, homemaking, personal problems etc…..Similarly there are magazines for men where there are things like automobiles, gadgets, [...]

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… one of my students actually knew that today is the anniversary of the Quit India Movement. As i said in class today … a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away …. India achieved independence !

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This year I began teaching culture studies to my students. Culture studies is not the study of culture perse – but the study of cultures – their power structures internally and in relation to other cultures – their internal & external dynamics and their overall relationship in the power pyramid. One of the more difficult [...]

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Part of the last week or so has been spent at the University Of Mumbai – Kalina – correcting BMM papers. One of the good things about this years lot has been the number of students who seem to have understood the subject rather than mouthing the same set of standard notes that float [...]

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A friend of mine, who subs for a leading English newspaper, sent me this: ….(a) robbery story I subbed today…
Police officials inform that the gang approached a showroom at night, tied the watchman and eloped with the loot.
And of course, the dish ran away with the spoon. Maybe, journalism programmes ought to [...]

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3 days a week, 3 hours at a go, for the last three years – I have been teaching students at Sophia College, Mumbai,the basics of media. I enjoy it. Looking at theories of media over a decade after i studied it as a student, and a over a decade of practise [...]

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Last week i had the chance to feel like Simon Cowell. I was judging a set of student films. Phrases such as which butcher did you use to edit that; or was the camera broken; or Is there a point to this; or where is the script; wtf, wtf, wtf; oh god – please let [...]

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One of the things that I do, is teach. And, i enjoy it. I have been teaching various aspects of media for the last 4 years – for the Bachelor’s in Media Studies programme. The first year was at SIES – where i studied, and the last three years with Sophia’s, where my mother taught. [...]

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