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

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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/
The 5 Rules of Advertising on Twitter – Old Media New Tricks - http://www.oldmedianewtricks.com/?p=48
Twitter 101- http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/55081

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