Category Archives: JMC 406

What my blogging students have been writing.

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

My JMC 406 students have been working on column ideas through their blogs this week.  Here’s some of what I like that I’m seeing: Katie on her grandfather Shelby on left turns Rachel A on her birthday… and her video … Continue reading →

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State of the Union Blogging Contest

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Every time I teach Commentary and Blogging at UNK, I have a blogging competition or two.  This year, my students had the opportunity to do an instant blog post somehow related to the president’s 2018 State of the Union address. … Continue reading →

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Meet my blogging students

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

This spring I’m teaching JMC 406 – Commentary and Blogging, a course I first taught 30 years ago this winter. (Of course, when I first taught it, there was not a blogging component, given that blogging didn’t exist yet…) Here … Continue reading →

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Is a Wedding Cake Free Speech? Or Is That Even The Question?

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Ralph Hanson

Update: Here’s how the court ruled. On Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. In 2012, back when marriage equality was yet to be … Continue reading →

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TBT – Siskel & Ebert talk about the movies

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

This is a reposting (with slight editing) of a post from four years ago.  Hard for me to come to terms with the fact that this presentation is from 20 years ago! My JMC 406 commentary class is going to … Continue reading →

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Columnists for your reading pleasure

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

Here are links to a number of columnists and columnist index pages from newspapers around the country for my JMC 406 commentary writing students, and anyone else who’s interested.  It has previously been published here in somewhat different form. National … Continue reading →

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Some great blogs from my students

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

This last week my blogging and commentary student Austin Koeller wrote a state editorial I was pretty happy with.  He argued that U.S. Senator Deb Fischer was betraying her conservative supporters in north central Nebraska by supporting construction of the … Continue reading →

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Looking at some interesting Twitter feeds

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

In many of my classes, I require my students to use Twitter.  While I hope each of them will come up with their own list of people to follow, here are a few that make up a good starting point: … Continue reading →

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JMC 406 Super Bowl Commercial Blogging Contest

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

Voting link now fixed! I asked my students in my commentary and blogging class to create a blog post that featured 2-to-5 Super Bowl commercials with commentary.  The one that gets the most votes wins a small prize. Read the … Continue reading →

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JMC 406 Student Blogs

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

This spring I’m teaching my Blogging & Commentary Writing class, a course I’ve taught in one form or another since the winter of 1988 (Hint: Blogging wasn’t part of the title then…)  Here are links to my students’ blogs and … Continue reading →

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