So, what do you need?

What could MMJ be doing to help you deliver journalism learning to your students?

I want to build MMJ’s usefulness to educators by listening to any ideas you have for things we don’t do now that would help you.

I’d like to build a resource bank that will support you in your work, and enable you easily to build lectures, seminars and workshops around the content of MMJ.

To do that, I need to listen. I’ve started, and heard some interesting ideas.

One suggestion is that white-labelled PowerPoint presentations covering key aspects of a journalism syllabus, organised for individual lectures in batches of 10 or 12, and which you can brand and adapt as you like, would work well.

Another is that resources which enable you to take a current news story and use it to demonstrate particular principles of coverage, or as the basis of a workshop, would help.

So you’d get a package of content – examples, demonstrations and multimedia resources - built around a particular current major news story or issue.

Maybe a combination of the two makes sense.

So you get full lecture slides and notes for a particular module – anything from live blogging or using an iPhone for reporting to creating news backgrounders on a big court case –  with tuition built around current topics.

The lecture/seminar/workshop packs would be updated regularly to take in a new current story.

How about material designed to follow the syllabus of the NCTJ’s Diploma in Journalism, or the NCE?

What do you think?

If these or any other ideas strike you as offering useful resources, then please let me know.

And if you’ve ideas for areas of your syllabus you’d particularly like to be covered, tell me, giving as much detail as you can of what you’d appreciate having delivered for you.

Another question is how this educator’s resource bank should operate.

How would you feel about having a Linked In group, a Huddle workspace or other forum for discussion and sharing?

Or do you prefer to just dip in to resources, grab what you need and go?

Over the summer I’ll be consulting as widely as I can, and your input is enormously valuable.

When I’ve got an idea of the things that work for people, I’ll report back, and then start building this area.

Please DM me on Twitter @andybull, use the Comment buttons on the MMJ site, or email me at andy at andybull dot co dot uk with anything that you'd find helpful

OK, I know the Devil Wears Prada is just a movie

And films aren't real life

But watch the trailer, and look out for the blue jumper - it's the key to being a great fashion journalist. Honestly.

The Devil Wear's prada is actually a brilliantly observed portrait of what it's like to work on a major (ok, the major) fashion magazine.

I worked in Vogue's London HQ for a while, not on that mag but in the customer titles division.

I've stood behind the pencil-thin fashionistas in the  Vogue Cafe, waited an age while they gabble into their phones as  their incredibly complicated, life-enhancing yet s-l-o-w t-o p-r-e-p-a-r-e smoothy is mixed for them.

There are many great lines in the Devil Wears Prada, but this exchange is the best: it gets to the very heart of why fashion -and fashion journalism, matters.

And I mean matters in the real world of business, finance, jobs and livelyhoods.

I've taken this from the IMDb and it goes like this:

Miranda Priestly: [Miranda and some assistants are deciding between two similar belts for an outfit. Andy sniggers because she thinks they look exactly the same] Something funny?
Andy Sachs: [the intern]No. No, no. Nothing's... You know, it's just that both those belts look exactly the same to me. You know, I'm still learning about all this stuff and, uh...
Miranda Priestly: 'This... stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff.

If you want to get into fashion journalism, click the link, it takes you into the latest careers masterclass from Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide

Next: How to get in to fashion journalism