Back in 2011, I was offered an opportunity by the community college where I was an adjunct to design and teach the institution’s very first digital journalism course.

I’d been teaching there for a few years, advising the student newspaper, and teaching the associated class using a pre-existing syllabus. When the course was offered to me, I jumped at it. I was eager to build something new, and as a newspaper reporter who’d learned to use technology on the job at work, I wanted to develop a cou…