About Brother Judkins
I came to Ricks College in 1996 to teach Communication Disorders and Interpersonal Communication. As a great-great grandson of Thomas E. Ricks and an alumnus of Ricks College, I felt like I was coming home. I loved everything about my job—inspiring and preparing future speech-language pathology and audiology students to transfer to a school where they could earn a Bachelor's degree.
Then in the summer of 2000, our board of education announced that Ricks College would become BYU-Idaho. Many changes followed that impacted my job; primarily, communicative disorders courses were discontinued and Speech-language pathology was not offered as a major.
I still teach interpersonal communication, but no longer teach communication disorders courses. Instead, I teach digital media classes. And I still love what I am doing. Digital media is a lot of fun, and teaching it is challenging and exciting. But I would love my job no matter what I was teaching because I love rubbing shoulders with the finest colleagues and the most incredible students in the world. The 'spirit of Ricks' is still tangible. We may be having growing pains, but I believe the Lord is inspiring and directing things here. With faith in Him and diligence in His work, things somehow work out, despite human frailties and failings.
About This Site
The best way to learn is to do and teach. I made brotherjudkins.com to help me learn and teach web media by doing web media. The majority of the content is related to the two web media courses I teach: Comm 310: Creating Online Media, and Comm 313: Multimedia Production. I also made it as a portal site for links to student work. I hope you find it helpful.