The School of Communication offers two resources that are available for faculty and students for support with podcasting and oral communication assignments.
Our podcasting specialist Dawn Ennis provides support on how to use the equipment in our podcasting studio and guidance about how to produce engaging and informative video or audio only podcasts. Dawn, an experienced media producer and journalist, is available to meet with students and faculty to provide instruction and guidance on producing podcasts. Dawn has extensive experience in digital media including as a Freelance Writer and Video Producer for The Daily Beast, NBCNews.com, NewNowNext, GoMagazine, HuffPost, The Advocate, Into, and Outsports. Dawn has also been News Editor for The Advocate and National Assignment Editor at ABC News.
Students and/or faculty can meet Dawn at the studio, and she can also make visits to courses to provide a tutorial on podcasts depending on her schedule. Students and faculty can use our podcasting studio on the first floor of HJG for class assignments or personal interests, and have those podcasts made available on our site. You can reach out to Dawn at daennis@hartford.edu.
Yasmin Shenoy is available to meet with students for help on oral presentation assignments. Some students struggle with these kinds of assignments and could benefit from individual guidance on how to make effective and engaging presentations. Other students who are very shy and averse to public speaking could benefit from individual meetings about how to overcome such challenges. Yasmin can meet with individual students, and also come to classes for talks about effective individual and group presentations.
Yasmin has taught CMM 111 Business and Professional Communication and CMM 115 Improving Communication Skills at the University for many years. Yasmin received the Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award for Part-time Faculty at UHart in 2015. She has taught MC 207 Managerial Communication at Central Connecticut State University from 2015-2018. Yasmin also has been conducting day courses for state employees at CCSU since 2017 on “Tact and Diplomacy” and “Business Writing.” Yasmin can be reached at shenoy@hartford.edu.