Coffee With Clark: Terry M. Clark

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

#Okieprof on teaching

I was asked to talk about my teaching philosophy for a Department of Mass Communication video presentation on our self evaluation at UCO this year. Thanks to Mark Scott's camera work and editing for making me at least look presentable.
I don't use the word "philosophy" though...it's just part of why and how this old journalist hopes to teach. In the background is the blog for my twitter for Media class, #clarkclass, that starts Monday. The plaque is the Oklahoma SPJ Lifetime Achievement Award. And that is a Montana Grizzly Bear Crossing sign behind the computer.
I'm really posting this for my grandchildren, so they can see their granddad.

Meditation

Just out the window, black silhouettes of trees remind me of those halcyon days with you, when we climbed out of the cellar toward enlightenment. Now, at a glance, the wild birds swing into view, obscuring the real world of young men dying to get home, and the snow that falls on our brains stays solid - never melting into springtime. On the ferry, we sit and compare notes as to whom in life has suffered the most; men, women, boys, or girls? Suddenly, in a revelation, you say it is the Buddha over on Main, who sits on his plywood altar, surrounded by plastic flowers, subjected to all the passersby, who have never had a Zen thought of their own… --K. Lawson Gilbert

Coffee Grounds

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

#Okieprof on teaching