teaching citizen journalism tools and techniques to student-journalists
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Thin overview slides used for the "Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists" presentation at the Citizen & Civic Journalism for Radio: Pedagogy and Possibility session of the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV, April, 16, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists
Kenny Smithwww.kennysmith.orgwww.twitter.com/kennysmith
Social media
FacebookTwitterFew, if any of the other platforms
Twitter statsThis week at Chirp:
Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users300,000 new users sign up per dayTwitter receives 180 million unique visitors per month 75% of Twitter traffic comes from third-party applications60% of all tweets come from third-party appsThere are 600 million search queries on Twitter per dayThere are over 100,000 Twitter applications37% of active Twitter users use their phone to tweetLOC archives
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/just_the_facts_statistics_from_twitter_chirp.php
Facebook student stats
36% reported logging on to Facebook every day 21% reported logging on to Facebook several times per day(Jones, Johnson-Yale, Millermaier, Seoane Perez, 2009)
Feast of feeds
Yahoo Pipes – an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. pipes.yahoo.com
Wikis – simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. www.wikispaces.com, et al
Twitterfall – view Twitter trends and patterns. Twitterfall.com
Delicious – social bookmarks. del.icio.us
Local product
On the ground coverage
Service to community
Jeff Jarvis
Formerly of advance.netCUNY journalism professorAdviser to many start-upswww.buzzmachine.comAuthor, What Would Google Do?
“Do what you do best, link to the rest.”
Samford Bubble
Samford Crimson, SNN, al.com
Community Contributions and the Culture of Feedback
Audience voice.
What does the community know? What troubles them? What question do they wish I’d really asked the
county commissioner?
Conversation.
Departmental Culture
Converging a department’s media offerings.
Exodus.
Day One.
Game Changers
Cell phoneiPadappsDroidFlipsEvolving online technologies
Tools vs. Arts
Winners vs. Losers in teaching to tools and software.
The love of learning.
The forward thinking of college students.
Understanding the need of the tool.
The Foundation Stone
“Vigorous writing is concise.”
“Omit needless words.” Elements of Style
The overview given
Storytelling
Storytelling
HOWS
WHYS
Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists
Kenny Smithwww.kennysmith.orgwww.twitter.com/kennysmith