{"id":573880342,"date":"2010-08-31T23:19:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T04:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880342"},"modified":"2010-09-02T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T03:17:37","slug":"what-has-happened-to-our-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/what-has-happened-to-our-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"What has happened to our conviction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First class of the semester. For the professor in me, at least. Samford gets the benefit of a later start. Classes began yesterday, mine kicked off this afternoon. I’m teaching editing to a class full of eager young student journalists. I’ve had some of these students in previous classes.<\/p>\n

We did the standard fare introductory stuff and then I gave a quiz. Now I’m that <\/em>professor.<\/p>\n

I showed them this video:<\/p>\n

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The point of the video being to speak and write with conviction and purpose. Seemed appropriate for an editing class. Took them a while, but they got into it by the end.<\/p>\n

Should be a good class, if the professor does a good job with his part.<\/p>\n

Had a meeting with the boss. Had a meeting with our new sales manager. We brain stormed ideas and then a few more and then one or two more besides. Now she just has to go out and spread the good word. Had a third meeting.<\/p>\n

And then I read a lot.<\/p>\n

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That’s for class on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The black and whites will be up shortly, but that’s it for the day.\u00a0 Tomorrow will be more workshop stuff, more studying, more work. More more more. (And another new, September long feature.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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