Communication workshop puts media students through the paces
Times of Bennett | Updated: Mar 23, 2023 12:59
By Pragya Singh
An interactive three-hour workshop on
The objective of the workshop was to teach students effective methods of
“Since students are working in groups, there is brainstorming involved. It is unlike a teacher just talking down to you,” Professor Sunil Saxena, Head of Department, Times School of Media, said.
He said that he sees great potential in the workshop both as a teaching methodology as well as a way to evaluate students.
The workshop was divided into five segments. The first three parts of the workshop included questions like, “What is a group?”, “Which groups do you belong to?” and “Why do people form groups?” which the students had to answer as groups.
The answer to these questions were to be filled in each group’s chart paper as well as their Miro boards. Miro is an online whiteboard platform where people can write and brainstorm simultaneously. Their work could also be viewed by everyone with the link to the Board.
“I had attended a workshop in the Netherlands recently using the
The fourth part of the workshop was a
“I think what went right for our group was better co-ordination and communication between the members,” Ashna Santhosh, a member of Group 7, said.
“The workshop taught me how to work despite differences and the
Well, who says learning can’t be fun?
(The writer is a Semester IV student of BA (Journalism and Mass Communication) programme.)
