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Welcome and thanks for visiting. While this website serves as my online portfolio (click the pic ↑ to view my bio), I sincerely hope you find something of value for yourself. Whether you're a student, a teacher or a practitioner of journalism and mass communication, or just someone who shares my interests, I encourage you to go exploring. There are thousands of places you can go from here and that's the way I've designed it ...as a web portal.↓ I was tasked in 2007 with putting Norfolk State University's student newspaper online and became the faculty adviser in 2008. Early that year, we founded SpartanEcho.Com and much later in the year I created Spartan Echo TV to support the website's multimedia efforts. It was a good year. We received an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Black College Communication Association for "best web site" and "best online video." Now we are concentrating on convergence journalism (a seamless marriage between print, broadcast and new media) and looking to compete on a broader national scale. I wrote this history of the Internet in December 1999 hoping it would serve as a snapshot of the Internet's historical narrative about itself, like the Internet's "autobiography" from the turn of the century. It's rather technical in nature, which might be why it was used as a definition of "the Internet" in 2006 by the Joint US-Canada Anti-Terrorism Task Force and the Bi-National Planning Group. It's offered here as a single document to make keyword searching quick and easy ...even if that drives researchers nuts when trying to reference it. As a teacher, I constantly have students asking me how they can find an internship, a job, or--more to the point--how they can network with professionals who can hook them up. Since my students represent a wide variety of interests and talents, I created this web page that links users to all of the journalism and mass communication groups I've been able to find, as well as some other sites useful to professionals. From what I've seen, it's one of the most comprehensive indexes of journalism and mass communication websites available, so I hope you'll bookmark it as a reference. I'm one of the blessed few who can actually say I love my job. I've been teaching in the Department of Mass Communications and Journalism since 1993 where I've focused primarily on broadcast journalism and web design. If you'd like to know more, click on my picture at the top of the page. In the meantime, please visit the website I created for our department. While I made it from a free template, it took some major tweaking to customize it and get it to validate for HTML 4.01 and CSS. Also, I wanted to use it as an example for my web design students--like I do with this site: a simple solution that's within their grasp, but done with professionalism. ©2009 by Steven E. Opfer - All Rights Reserved opfer@cox.net