Elearning and journalism – tackling the same issues
I’ve mentioned this before briefly, but what continues to amaze me is how much my two spheres of interest are essentially colliding. Not only are the same issues being talked about in both journalism and elearning on a regular basis – how should we change the conversation, ‘push or pull’ and on-demand content – but the same tools and concepts keep cropping up too.
Both Amy Gahran and Mindy McAdams have been looking at what a journalism school needs to do to help its students equip themselves for the 21st century.
Note to e-learning types from other fields, these two bloggers are well worth reading as part of your wider blog trawls – good stuff on teaching and technological support tools here.
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 
Homeless in the New Year
Just read that Eduspaces is to close in the New Year – bummer.
I’ve been using ELGG for about a year for individual group projects and have been using the main site since then (but started using it properly in September).
There’s a load of content up there and some really interesting things that people are sharing. So what’s going to happen – we need a rescue mission, otherwise there will be a flood of educators and students looking for a community blogspace.
I’m hoping help will arrive, but I’m going to back up my content just in case.
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Tags: Eduspace, ELGG, learning community
What, you mean that other people could look at my FaceBook?
I was at a lecture into online journalism yesterday and we were discussing blogs, the rise of the ‘new trade press’ (expert bloggrs) and how journalists fit into all of this.
We got sidetracked and started talking about social networks and then someone piped up with “But it is my FaceBook and I don’t want employers to be able to see pictures of me doing….” Read more
Shozu to Flickr to Wordpress – an experiment with Robin Hamman
Robin Hamman
Originally uploaded by egrommet
So, it works! Got Shozu sorted on my mobile and I’ve been able to get this picture to Flickr.
Now up to my Wordpress for a test drive.
Community 2.0
Online communities are the order of the day for my master’s this semester. So we’re blogging, using an ELGG community and a wiki as part of the fun and games.
I’ve always had a problem with blogging – as a journalist I was always taught that my view isn’t important, it’s all about what the reader is interested in. You write for a community and are involved in it, but maybe were more apart from it rather than a part of it. Traditionally you got scared when a reader called to talk about a story (maybe because you were worried there had been a mistake).