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Image via Wikipedia Brian Manzullo, late of the Central Michigan University Central Michigan Life student newspaper, has written a thought-provoking blog post with the enticing title: Three things I dare journalism students to do before they graduate. Hey, it’s a dare, right? So I’m going to piggy-back on Brian’s post and propose that j-profs engage in these . . . → Read More: Three things I challenge j-profs to do along with their students As promised, I’m embedding the audio from the “Future of Journalism” panel discussion held last Wednesday at EIU. Panelists were: Will Sullivan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLToday, John Foreman, publisher of the News-Gazette of Champaign-Urbana, Ill. and Nancy Foreman, executive producer at WCIA-TV3 in Champaign. Jeff Lynch, interim dean of the EIU College of Arts and Humanities . . . → Read More: Future of Journalism panel audio  Comments are closed  Academics, career talk, hope for the future, industry news  career talk, future of journalism, Journalism, Multimedia, social media, stltoday.com For little over a year I have been interested in this thing I’m sure many of you have heard about called twitter. I started off curious how this, then relatively new, social media tool might be used by college media. It wasn’t until I threw caution to the wind and started tweeting did I really understand why people were using twitter. I used twitter for myself, not the paper or any attempt to pretend I was a media organization. While I like twitter, I still see many media and businesses not using it how I, a user, would like it to be used. I spent the past few months talking to other twitter users, attended a few tweetups and along with my own preferences have compiled a list of things media organizations and companies should do, and not do when using twitter. 1. Do NOT use twitter as an RSS feed! I removed the NYT and both my local papers because all they did was push out headlines to their stories. Don’t know why but this really bugs me as a twitter user. If all you are doing is pushing your stories you are not using twitter right. 2. Do NOT push out a ton of updates at one time. I greatly dislike getting up in the morning or after a long day coming home to find my twitter feed filled up with a ton of updates from one media or business. I don’t mind it from my friends, they aren’t selling me something or just trying to get my eyeballs on their site. When a media/business does this it comes across as pure advertising. Personally, I think 2-4 GOOD updates a day works for me, though nothing is wrong with just one a day either! It is all about finding balance. Comments - (Comments are closed) Academics, College Media, Community, General Media, Twitter, industry news Andrew Dunn notes that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is getting with the program and requiring a multimedia course for all journalism students as part of their new curriculum. Glad to know they’ve joined us in the future! In the meantime, I’ve been updating my syllabus for the multimedia course here at EIU based on a semester’s worth of experience in the field. Below the fold is the new version of the syllabus/schedule with a few explanatory notes. Continue reading Multimedia course syllabus update for Spring 2009 Mindy McAdams writes about something I’ve been thinking recently: No one learns how to do anything by sitting in a classroom and listening to a teacher. That might be a great way to get started — but the real learning is going to happen somewhere else. That’s the summary of her post, in which she makes the case . . . → Read More: Wash, rinse, repeat Image via Wikipedia Mindy McAdams ponders how far j-schools are moving with integrating new media skills into their curricula. What is your j-school doing? Not not doing, but doing. My department had a meeting yesterday and resolved to form three results-focused subcommittees and move ahead rapidly, this semester, on curriculum reform. Overdue, yes. But for the first . . . → Read More: What J-Schools are doing Paul Conley wrote something the other day that spurred this post, a late addition to the Carnival of Journalism (April edition). Conley notes an Editor & Publisher article about newly displaced print editors looking for work as journalism instructors. Conley is succinct, as usual, in his assessment: it’s not in the interest of journalism students for schools to . . . → Read More: NextGen journalism profs and advisers Last week, I submitted an itemized list for the multimedia storytelling class at Eastern Illinois University (see here for syllabus and here for FAQ). Below the fold, I’m pasting the list I sent to my department head. Each “kit” costs about $400, and we plan to have one kit per student by the time the class is up and running. The biggest issue with coming up with the kits was the video camera. There were only two entry-level video cameras that has a mic input, and none with a headphone input as well. As this is a beginning class, it was hard to justify the additional hundreds of dollars that would be necessary to get gear with both mic and headphone inputs. These kits would also be useful for a campus media outlet that wants to get into multimedia in an inexpensive manner. So here’s the list. Feel free to add comments below. Continue reading Mojo kits for multimedia storytelling class Several questions arose in the comments to the post I wrote yesterday about the multimedia course syllabus. To answer some of those questions, I’m creating a FAQ (although they aren’t really “frequently asked” questions at this point). Hopefully, this additional information will be useful to you. If anyone has further questions, I’ll answer them as I can. Check below the fold. JANUARY 2009 UPDATE: New Syllabus version here. UPDATE: Check out the FAQ about the syllabus UPDATE 2: Here’s the proposed mojo kit for the class. Yesterday, I mentioned that Eastern Illinois University has approved a multimedia journalism class as a requirement for journalism majors beginning in Fall 2008. Below the fold, I’m posting the tentative course outline and some syllabus information for anyone who might want to take a look. Keep in mind that this is an introductory class. The goal is to give every student a rudimentary knowledge of different ways to tell stories with multimedia. From there, if they want to learn more, there are advanced classes. Students in the class are required to pay a lab fee, which will help with the purchase of necessary equipment. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. |
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