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Dale Blasingame is an associate professor of practice in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, where he received the 2017 Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching and 2023 Presidential Excellence Award for Service. Blasingame is a part of the Digital Media Innovation faculty, and he teaches courses that introduce students to different aspects of how technology is changing journalism, media and marketing. He is a Part 107 certified drone pilot and has taught drone courses since 2015. Blasingame has now created four drone classes at Texas State. Some of his other classes include Advanced Social Media and Analytics, Web Design and Publishing, and Fundamentals of Digital and Online Media. Before transitioning to Texas State, Blasingame was a television news producer. He spent nine years at WOAI-TV in San Antonio, where he won two Lone Star Emmy awards and was nominated for a third.