I spent two days this weekend battling allergies in Las Cruces, NM and enjoying the time discussing all things new media with a small group of students at the twice-weekly student newspaper The Roundup of New Mexico State University.
The student media adviser at NMSU, Jeff Hand, was one of the attendees at the Washington DC adviser’s workshop sponsored by CMA. He talked his editor into flying me down to give a dose of new media evangelism to the student staff.
The students who stuck through the two days (several were no shows on Saturday) got a full blast of new media tips and tools - trends, blogs, podcasts, and soundslides, with even a bit of web-based video editing (via “jumpcut”:http://www.jumpcut.com) thrown in.
The second day I was working mostly with the “word jockeys,” reporters and editors, so I wanted to show them just how easily they could produce content for the web site if they had access to digital audio recorders and digital cameras. Fortunately, I had my digital audio recorder - an inexpensive Olympus USB model. I grabbed my cell phone and shot a few photos, asked a few questions - voila, instant man-on-the-street interviews.
I spent about 15 minutes e-mailing the photos to my e-mail address and dumping all the clips into Garageband, and bringing it all together in Soundslides. Here’s the result: “Roundup New Media Student Workshop”:http://bryanmurley.com/RCM/roundupday2/
As with any training, the success of the effort will be told in the coming weeks as the Roundup updates its web site and reporters and photographers begin working together for web packages.
Adviser Jeff Hand promised to keep us posted.
If you’d be interested in having one of the Reinventing College Media authors visit your campus, “find the details here”:http://reinventing.collegemedia.org/index.php?id=137.
0 Comments on “NMSU workshop ’roundup’”
Leave a Comment