Using Social Media in the Classroom - IU Presentation

Using Social Media in the Classroom Cindy Royal, Ph.D Assistant Professor Texas State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication [email_address] www.cindyroyal.com www.onthatnote.com cindytech.wordpress.com

Courses

Web Design and Publishing - www.cindyroyal.com/webdesign

Multimedia Journalism - www.cindyroyal.com/multij

Issues in New Media - www.cindyroyal.com/newmedia

Advanced Online Media - www.cindyroyal.com/advanced

Milestones in Multimedia 1997 Black Hawk Down 1998 Drudge Report Google 1999 Blogger IndyMedia 2000 OhMyNews AOL/Time Warner merger 2001 DotCom Bust 9/11 Tributes Wikipedia launched 2002 Google News 2004 Jon Stewart on Crossfire Rathergate Press Credentials to Bloggers WikiNews, Facebook, Digg 2005 YouTube News Corporation buys MySpace 2006 Macaca Invention of the Year - YouTube Person of the Year - You Google Buys YouTube $1.65B 2003 RSS Google Buys Blogger MySpace launched 1995 Craigslist launched Slate, Salon, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer online 2007 VA Tech Twitter tips at SXSW Invention of the Year - iPhone CNN/ YouTube Debates Pre-1995 Wired Magazine - 1993 NY Times on AOL - 1994 Nando -1994 1996 Washington Post Wall Street Journal Chicago Tribune LA Times MSNBC 2008 CBS acquires CNET Candidates embrace social media EveryBlock.com

2009

1 st photo from scene

Key Terms

Blog

Web 2.0

User-generated content

Mobile/Moblogging

Mashup

RSS

Tag/ Tag Cloud

Podcast/Vcast

Wiki

Web-first journalism

Programmer/Journalist

OpenSocial

Widgets

User experience (UI)‏

Social Media

No longer required to know HTML/CSS/Web or Graphic Design/FTP/Domain Registration/Hosting to have a presence on the Web

The Web is the location of user-generated content galore

Lots of free and cheap tools that you can use

Easy to implement

Fun to try out

Using RSS Feeds

Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication

Set up an RSS reader like iGoogle.

Set up custom RSS feeds on particular topics using Google News

Use to keep up with news and trends

Easy access to news

Keeping Up

Google News/Yahoo News - Technology

NY Times Technology/David Pogue

Wired News

Scobleizer

TechCrunch

Digg

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang

Techmeme

MediaTricks

Social Media Today

Mashable

Blogs

cindytech.wordpress.com - personal tech blog

royalmulti.blogspot.com - Multimedia Journalism class, combination of observations and articles.

txstatemcweek.com – Mass Comm Week blog

gradnewmedia.blogspot.com - Graduate Issues in New Media class, observations from readings

www.sxtxstate.com - South By Texas State, coverage of SXSW Interactive, photos, video

mc1313sum08.blogspot.com - Writing for the Mass Media Course

www.onthatnote.com - personal music Web site, integrated with blog

YouTube

Low threshold for experimentation

Easy to upload video

Accepts a variety of formats

Can be embedded into blogs

Twitter

Microblog - 140 characters

Used by news organizations to give quick updates, follow breaking stories

PR and Ad – use to push information about company, thought leadership, give company personality

Bands, politicians, tech pundits, friends ...

Find interesting people to follow, ask questions, participate

Use with RSS feed to follow action.

Create a hashtag keyword to search on a topic. Very powerful for real-time search of topics.

@scobelizer, @kevinrose, @statesman, @mediatricks, @digitaljournals, @TechCrunch, @TechMeme ... lots more

me - @cindyroyal

More Online Tools

Facebook or MySpace – set up groups; post content; stay in touch

del.icio.us - social bookmark manager

Second Life

Niche Social Networks

Ning - WebPubNET.ning.com

KickApps

LinkedIn

Flickr/Picasa – photo sharing sites

Aggregators like FriendFeed and socialthing!

Google Maps

Open source content management systems like Drupal and Joomla

Visualizations with Many Eyes or Wordle.net

More Freebies from Knight Citizen News Center – http://www.kcnn.org/modules/the_freebies_list

Word Cloud of this Presentation

On The Go...

Blogger/Wordpress Mobile – send photos and text directly from you phone to your blog

Qik.com – stream LIVE video from your phone!

Live, streaming video – Ustream.tv, Mogulus.com

Resources

SXSW Interactive - www.sxsw.com/interactive

Wired Magazine - www.wired.com

Cyberjournalist.net - Great Work Gallery - www.cyberjournalist.net/category/great-work-gallery

Online News Association - ona.org

Online Journalism Awards - http://www.journalists.org/

Knight Digital Media Center - www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org

Poynter Online and Multimedia - www.poynter.org/subject.asp?id=26

Wired Journalists - wiredjournalists.com/

Online Journalism Review Archives - ojr.org

Interactive Narratives - interactivenarratives.org/

News Videographer Blog - Angela Grant - newsvideographer.com

We The Media by Dan Gillmor

Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (forthcoming book “Free” coming in July)‏

Editor & Publisher Awards - royal.reliaserve.com/eppy/winners2008.html

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication - jcmc.indiana.edu

Some recent articles

10 Ways to Make Press Releases More SEO Friendly – Mashable - http://mashable.com/2008/11/04/how-to-make-press-releases-seo-friendly/

10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals – Mashable - http://mashable.com/2008/10/30/best-social-media-tools-for-pr-professionals-and-journalists/