links for 2008-02-28
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As part of their intention to take over the world, Google have introduced yet another important and useful tool which will be going into my arsenal. The ability to create a dedicated team site quickly and easily could have massive implications in terms of
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An american technology/journalism conference
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Journalism technology conference
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Links about a conference for journo educators getting to grips with multimedia
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Tips on working with audio for journo students
Journalism 3G (or computation and journalism)
Not the fanciest of names – some of the NICAR crew are calling it COJO.
There’s also an interesting article on the conference by Rich Gordonn over at MediaShift Idea Lab which quotes Aaron Bobick, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech (and I think the big clue is in the name of the Aaron’s school here).
Aaron wants to know “What is the future of story, and how does that affect the future of journalism?”
Think we all do – CAR, COJO, MOJO/RGC, UGC, et al are fascinating and give journalism educators and students massive grounds for exploration.
The most interesting thing is that the traditional business models are under threat from what was once the product – the news itself.
Newspaper sales are down, TV and radio are losing audience too. Paul Bradshaw has a great article about new business models for the 21st century newsroom which makes for interesting reading if this is your field.
So, how do you train journalists when the very landscape is constantly moving under everyone’s feet?
With good core journalistic skills and an open mind – train an inquisitive mind and hone new skills.
With the advent of the journalism technology labs – and all the top UK J-schools including Cardiff University are doing this – this is just set to become a technophile’s playground. I’m having fun already!
All makes for very exciting times for journalists – if only the bloody process would stop long enough for us to get it pinned down properly 
links for 2008-02-27
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Training article on trends within elearning – bit old but some good points
links for 2008-02-24
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A whole raft of web 2.0 stuff from the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University
links for 2008-02-23
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Project and programme management
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Bill Shackleford – yet more project managment
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project management docs
Social Media Influence: Custom does "MoJo” with Nokia and Cardiff University
Social Media Influence: Custom does “MoJo” with Nokia and Cardiff University
An interesting experiment between Matt Yeomans – from Custom Communications – Cardiff University’s School of Journalism and Nokia Trendlabs.
Mobile journalism is the coming thing, lots of editors I’ve talked to lately are really interested in this approach.
Personally I also find it interesting that Matt has been using a Ning social network as the host to his course, eschewing the regular VLE that Cardiff uses.
It’s had its ups and downs, but has been interesting in that it is easy for the students to work together and view each other’s work.
Blogged with Flock
Tags: n95, mobile journalism, video, social network
OU’s Social:Learn Project
Had a fun Flashmeeting with my tutor and some of my course mates last night.
We were looking at theories including push/pull in learning and teaching and how this applies to elearning (we’re doing some old-school reading of books and were discussing E-Learning Strategies: How to Get Implementation and Delivery Right First Time by Morrison.)
At one point we got chatting about how/whether pull learning (where you get what you want when you need it, rather than having it pushed at you by an employer or teacher) could lead to the end of a set and formalised syllabus for some courses.
One of the things we were wondering was how this could work and, indeed, if it should even work.
Would we need a VLE, or would a collection of Web2.0 technologies be more appropriate?
Just doing some blog reading and found this by the OU’s Martin Weller – who blogs as The Ed Techie.
The OU are working on how to use web 2.0 and social learning in what is a very rapidly changing world.
Here’s Martin’s slideshow
But do please go and have a look at Martin’s own site.
Oh and he ‘dared’ to say that a Prof’s views could be as valid as a blogger out in the wilds of t’internet somewhere. Got to be the blogger, surely
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Tags: PLE, social learning, Open University
links for 2008-02-19
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OUseful’s guide to Geo Twitter
Info on how to set up a Yahoo Pipes to geotag your Twitter Posts
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OUseful’s guide to blogging from Google Maps
Another pipe’s mashup with blogging capability this time from within Google Maps
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Views from a NZ journo about the changing newsroom
Reflective practice
Getting interested in reflective practice and how that can work – the obvious answer is to blog or to keep a journal inside a VLE.
But why not bring PLE elements in to play here.
I’ve signed up to Twitter to have a little play and see what that can do, so you’ll be seeing little messages popping up in the right hand column from time to time.
I’ve also uploaded Shozu to an N95 to try some video reflection via blip.tv .
Stay tuned – and I apologise for the early video posts. I did get into newspaper journalism for a reason
60 seconds of pure terror
Paul Bradshaw has unveiled what he believes to be the worst example of newspaper video – Reading Evening Post’s 60 second news.
It’s well worth a look at what is going on here, the poor reporter has obviously just been stuck in front of a video camera and told to read off the autocue – he looks like a bunny in the headlights.
Both Paul (UCE) and Andy Dickinson, from UCLAN, have been highlighting the problems associated with the big companies just jumping on to the bandwagon.
Andy has done a couple of very funny cartoons on this – well worth a look.
It’s a salutory lesson for any ‘print’ journalist looking to get ahead in an increasingly online world.
(This is a repost, lost the one last night due to a technical problem – sorry folks!)