Aaron Manfull is offering tips about creating online student media. 1. Don’t make working on the website as punishment. Aaron explained at the beginning of the website, the student editors would make the staff members who missed their deadline for the print edition would have to write two stories for the website. That gave the […]
“Making the move online: It’s a great complement to print, it’s not scary with the right plan and it just might save scholastic journalism” is Aaron Manfull’s session this morning at the Scholastic Journalism Division meeting. He’s shared his slides at — goo.gl/qpDYK
Our opening session with Ellyn Angelotti helped get us all online — checking websites that speakers are discussing and posting to our Twitter feed — #sjd2012 And it is taking most us more than one device to keep up with it all.
Two students and a faculty member are discussing Indiana University’s American Student Radio. The project launched to help give students more media experience. Barbara Anguiano and Julia Meek shared the project from the students’ perspective. Sarah Neal Estes is talking about how American Student Radio has become a good learning experience with students receiving […]
We’re talking about the interaction of Twitter account –with retweeting. Shift in some cases from byline outlook to “let’s build this story together.” Ellyn Angelotti introduced the story of the student who took a photo of the shuttle launch while on a plane en route to a family visit in Florida. She sent two of […]
We’re now comparing two Twitter accounts for The Chicago Tribune — @chicagotribune vs. @ColonelTribune @chicagotribune – Headlines.10,000 tweets, 334 following, 68,800 followers. @ColonelTribune – More conversational with engagement with followers. Also has opinions about stories. 18,276 tweets, 23,443 foloowing, 817,382 followers. How many people are behind each of the Twitter? Do we know who those […]
Ellyn Angelotti showed The Twitter Experiment that has teachers and students talking about how they are using Twitter to ask questions and share information in class. After the video, she encouraged us to just do it. Once we identify a social media that could have journalism implications, we should make a class assignment to try […]
“New Media, New Tools and the New News Cycle” is Ellyn Angelotti’s topic this afternoon. She started with an into graphic to illustrate how the news cycle has changed with people who aren’t “journalists” can be breaking the news and then the news media picking up and reporting on that. She put us in groups […]
The sun is shining. The temperatures are in the high 70s. A light breeze is blowing. Great weather for the start of our mid-winter meeting at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg. David Bulla, division head, has welcomed us and asked everyone to introduce themselves. With a few announcements about sessions and evening meals, we’re […]
If you’re attending a New Year’s Eve party or a New Year’s Day football game party, you can use those opportunities to help you in your job quest. Tip #1 – Let people know you are hunting for a job. You don’t want to turn a festive event into a sad discussion of your job […]
Julie Dodd 