James E. Reppert
MAGNOLIA – James E. Reppert, associate professor of mass communication at Southern Arkansas University, has been competitively selected for participation in two faculty seminars at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, to be held consecutively July 22-26 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The inaugural Poynter Educators Conference will focus on interactive strategies to improve media instruction. Topics include technology in the classroom, the impact of social media on newsgathering, design across platforms, and media ethics in a digital age. Faculty will create blogs, use Twitter, and contribute instructional materials to a conference website.
It is followed by a two-day “Hands-On Video” seminar, in which educators will shoot and edit digital video for multimedia classroom applications.
Reppert has made more than 125 presentations at regional and national conventions of professional associations, many with original videos. He has served as a manuscript reviewer for 19 college textbooks in mass communication, broadcast journalism, and speech, and was selected to participate in 21 faculty media seminars.
Reppert received the 2009-10 Presidential Award for Communication Excellence from the Kentucky Communication Association for career achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service. He is a two-time KCA Teacher of the Year (2000-01 and 2006-07), Scholar of the Year (1997-98), and Undergraduate Mentor of the Year (2007-08), the first out-of-state educator to receive each award.
A member of the SAU faculty since 1987, Reppert holds a bachelor’s degree in university studies from North Dakota State University and a master’s degree in communication studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a graduate of Brown Institute (now Brown College) in Minneapolis in radio-television broadcasting and acquired a First Class License from the Federal Communications Commission.
