Education Program Resources

I often have people ask me about ideas for using the Journal in class. I have shared my uses in earlier blog entries. For a wealth of other ideas, you should take a look at www.professorjournal.com.

The first stop on the website would be signing up for “The Weekly Review.” The website describes them as “Free Weekly Emails summarize selected articles from this week's WSJ in 16 business disciplines, with questions for class discussion.” I look forward to receiving these emails every Friday. (I happen to write the business law weekly review.) The writers offer you three or more articles specially selected for your discipline that have appear in recent issues of the Journal. Also included are questions, and sometimes group projects, research projects, internet activities, and links to related articles. You can cut-and-paste what you would like to use, and add your own questions. All of these can save you time as you use the Journal articles in class or for quizzes or tests. We have done some of the work for you.

My students often read and select to reference in class the articles appearing in the reviews. The last few weeks they have discussed almost all of them. The Weekly Reviews can help keep you up to date with some interesting current developments in your field during those times when we do not have time to read all the news ourselves.

Signing up for Weekly Reviews online is easy. On the professorjournal.com website, click on “sign up now” under “The Weekly Review” and enter some basic information.

You can select one or more of the 16 disciplines listed. Your choices are:

Accounting
Business Ethics
Business Law
Economics: Macro
Economics: Micro
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Healthcare Business and Policy
Hotel Restaurant Travel Management
Information Technology
International Business
Introduction To Business
Journalism and Media
Management
Marketing
Political Science

Another great feature of the Weekly Reviews is the five-year archive feature in that same section of the professorjournal.com webpage. If you click on “Search the Five-Year Archive” in the Weekly Review section, you can access all the Weekly Reviews, searching by discipline, by topic, and/or by keyword. I have found a number of ‘classic’ articles that age well and continue to be good case studies or the basis of discussion over many years. (Note: You will need a subscription number for this service.)

Next week I will have more suggestions regarding other resources from the Education Program at the Wall Street Journal.