April 13, 2011
Resources from Staci Baird’s talk: Educating the Next Generation of Mobile Journalists
In this week’s KDMC Mobile Symposium, I’m talking to journalism school instructors in NE and MT about ways to integrate mobile into the curriculum. Here are links to my sources and resources for this talk…
Stay up to date with current trends via these sites:
Mashable
CNN Mobile Blog (Amy Gahran, contributing writer)
Poynter Media Lab - Mobile
Netted by the Webbys
If you’re not already part of the weekly #wjchat, you should be! Great conversation via moderated topics with journalism professionals, educators and students from around the world.
/#wjchat (weekly Twitter chat)
Links to examples from other journalism schools (if you’ve got a mobile lesson or syllabus, let me know (@girljournalist on Twitter) and I’ll add it to this list.).
Social Media Scavenger Hunt This exercise was developed by Professor Carrie Brown-Smith, University of Memphis. On her blog, Professor Brown-Smith explains, “The goal here is to not only get students’ feet wet using Twitter, but also to get them thinking about using social media like a reporter, with strong observational skills, the ability to find relevant or interesting tidbits of information and get them out quickly.”
Contemporary News Media (syllabus) This class is designed to introduce students to the world of mobile reporting and publishing. By the end of the semester students will be able to identify challenges, recent innovations, technical trends and tools that are shaping the future of mobile news. Students will understand and have experience using mobile tools and technology to gather and publish content. This class was the first mobile class to be taught at SF State. I learned a lot! Needless to say, when I teach the course in fall 2011, I will make some adjustments to my original syllabus. Class website (fall 2010)
Reporting with mobile devices (syllabus) This was an eight week class taught by Jeremy Rue, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. According to the syllabus, “This course is an experiment to find out how journalists can use mobile devices for content creation. It is designed as a test bed to learn whether it is possible, practical and effective to tell engaging news stories using mobile devices. Emphasis will be on finding out the workflows for using mobile for content creation and learning which impediments - technological or logistical - exist in using mobile devices for news production.” Class website (spring 2011)
Mobile Journalism (course description) taught by Dan Sinker, Columbia College Chicago. According the course description, “This class will introduce journalism students to the challenges and possibilities inherent in the mobile medium through hands-on mobile reporting and mobile website development.”
Specialized Reporting: Education, Youth & Learning taught by William Celis, USC Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism. According to the syllabus, “Upon completion of this class, you will be able to report across a broad range of societal issues, anchored by schools, by exploring the relationships between children and young people, their families, their schools and their communities. You will be able to discern reliable academic research from questionable studies, use with confidence all manner of statistics, and weave compelling narratives infused with context. You will also gain more experience producing multimedia elements for your traditional print stories, understanding that in 21st century journalism there are multiple ways to tell a story, and you will gain confidence navigating communities of color, and neighborhoods of immigrants and working class citizens.” Class blog (spring 2011) Check the first 30 posts or so on the blog for the stories from the education reporting class. According to Bill, “Jennifer Taylor’s stories with video were not wholly produced with the iPad. We found video not easy to produce with the first iPad, so Jennifer, an award-winning documentary film maker, used a high-end camera and editing equipment.”
USC Annenberg class learning to report with iPad (Poynter)
Other resources:
Go Mobile! (some ideas for presenting mobile to students)
How to setup text alerts with Twitter
Course design template (From Indiana University, Bloomington School of Journalism Teaching Workshop summer 2010)
Real world examples to share with your students:
How One Radio Reporter Ditched His Equipment for an iPhone 4
Finding the Right Tool to Tell a War Story
A reporter’s tale of using the Motorola Droid on the job
MobileQuest: How I Tricked Reporters into Learning to Use their cellphones (in a D&D-style quest)
Mobile phone becomes a TV studio
Be sure to join the new “I teach mobile” Facebook group.
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