Associate Professor Bruce Henderson


Associate Professor Bruce Henderson, the Campus Press adviser, taught Advanced Editing, Digital Newsroom and a special-topics course, Online Project Management. He continued his work on new media and education with two outreach projects that involved six Colorado high schools and a middle school in Boulder.

“I’m interested in what I see as an unlimited potential for using new media, especially the World Wide Web, in education – much like the way radio was first used for education in the 1920s,” Henderson said.

One project, funded by the Colorado Council on the Arts, involved pairing two Colorado poets as virtual poets in residence in high schools in Olathe, Montrose, La Jara, Antonito and in two high schools in Denver. The poets work with the high school students via a Web site. It features the works of the students, critiques and assignments by the poets, and streaming video of the students and poets.

Another project involved documenting a trip to Baja California, Mexico, taken by students at Sojourner Middle School in Boulder. Students in Henderson’s Educational Web Site Theory and Production course created multimedia Flash presentations of the middle school students’ trip so that future students can learn about that area of Mexico and create their own research about the area and ecotourism.

Henderson wrote several papers related to the Web and education, including “Improving Student Writing Using A Web-Based Targeted Approach to Grammar System (TAGS)” and “The Online Newsroom: Constructing Knowledge in a Community of Practice.”

His Virtual Chautauqua Web site project, which involved putting 80 Colorado performing artists online in streaming audio and video for use in K-12 classrooms, was featured in “Networking the Land; Rural America in the Information Age,” published by the Technologies Opportunity Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Virtual Chautauqua also was cited as a Best Practices Web site by Imagining America, an organization created at a White House conference co-sponsored by the University of Michigan, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the White House Millennium Council to encourage connections between universities and the communities they serve through the arts and the humanities.

Henderson also organized and conducted the annual statewide newspaper Web site contest for the Colorado Press Association. Bruce.Henderson@Colorado.edu