Students in the Radio Broadcasting class worked with professoinals from WAKT 106.1 FM, Toledo's
community radio station, to learn about producing a radio show, from content, to mixing, to FCC regulations. At the end of the semester,
FCC compliant student shows were broadcast on WAKT.
Student pilot episodes
Note: music has been removed from music shows in the samples below for copyright compliance.
ENG 351--Media Writing (Spring 2022)
Students in the Media Writing class worked with professionals at WGTE to produce the
docushow Local With Lourdes. Students wrote stories about climate change,
mental health, and economic issues in the Northwest Ohio area, interviewed Lourdes community
members and experts about their topics. They edited together promos for their show and
visited the WGTE studio to learn how to produce a live-to-tape broadcast.
Show Promos
The 30 second promos below were edited together by students with the help of WGTE producers.
Students in the Media Writing class worked with professionals at WGTE to produce the
docufilm College & Covid the Struggle is Real. Students wrote stories and interviewed Lourdes University
faculty and staff regarding the latest updates about COVID-19 from the CDC.
For this assignment, students watched one season of a show from a different culture that featured prominiently a
specific technology. They wrote blogs that explored how the representation of technology influenced
narrative elements and demonstrated course concepts.
Technology and Cultural Discourse Video Assignment
For this assignment, students created composite videos about some aspect of technology and
culture and uploaded their work to our class YouTube channel. Use the links below to view
individual videos.
View the complete playlist here
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Students in ENG 405: Shakespeare selected scenes from Richard III, Shakespeare's history play about the
devilishly manipulative usurper monarch, and created memes to represent a key element of the plot. Combined, they tell
the story of the play in an updated and entertaining way.
DMS 300--Intro to Digital and Media Studies (Fall 2021)
In Fall 2021, DMS students worked with Reinvest Toledo, an area non-profit whose mission is to
be a catalyst for neighborhood organizing, investment, and leadership that is led by residents
of Toledo's low- and moderate-income communities. The organization identified a number of transformational
leaders from their communities, and DMS students in the class interviewed them to collect their stories
as part of an horal history project.
The digitized stories were formatted into a digital exhibit, and this exhibit will be indexed
with the Toledo Lucas County public library so that the stories of these amazing leaders will be preserved
and made available to the community. Students also created a short film about their experiences creating
this project. See the exhibit and the video below.
DMS 300--Intro to Digital and Media Studies (Spring 2020)
The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library recently unveiled a new digital exhibit – "Growing Up in Toledo." Created in collaboration
with the Lourdes University Digital and Media Studies Program, the exhibit was produced from data generously provided by the
TLCPL Local History and Geneaology Department and researched by students in the University’s Spring 2020 DMS 300: Introduction to
Digital and Media Studies class.
The joint project involved six Lourdes student researchers and exhibit contributors from the Lourdes Digital & Media Studies (DMS) class
working closely with TLCPL’s Local History and Genealogy department staff members John Dewees, Ed Hill, and Kristel Schetter.