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How to teach social media in J-school
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Social media is so new, it's easy to claim you're an expert on the subject. But some journalism professors are finding ways to teach the new medium as part of the curriculum....
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Exceptional multimedia student projects
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If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It's a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author of The Digital Journalist's Handbook and the blog 10,000 Words.
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A new style guide for web writing
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Yahoo has decided it's time for an alternative to traditional style guides when it comes to text written for the Web. In July, 2010, it will launch The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World. Like the CP Style Guide, it will be a guide to grammar, punctuation and style for online writers and editors. But the Yahoo guide suggests some different spellings. For example, it says email should not include a hyphen and smartphone should be one word.
It will be more than just a style guide, too. It will include advice about adapting written material for an online audience, making the text more accessible to search engines and writing strong headlines. It plans to release a print version of the guide, as well as versions for Kindle and the Ipad.
Will Canadian journalism educators teaching online journalism consider using this?
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Six things all j-students need
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 I wonder, writes Ryerson University online journalism instructor Leigh Felesky, what students are being told "journalism" is these days. Felesky lays out six skill areas that j-schools should focus on in these changing times.
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A guide to digital storytelling from the BBC
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This is a step by step guide from the BBC about how to produce digitial stories, which it defines as "mini-movies" or "short, personal, multimedia scraps of TV that people can make for themselves."
But even if that's not your goal, there are good sections here on how to develop story ideas and how to gather and edit audio and video.
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Show students how to sculpt in a new medium
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 If we create j-school curriculum based on secrecy, control and broadcast we're not training students to lead, writes Wayne MacPhail, we're teaching them do to what's already been done, but with less paper and more silicon. MacPhail is experimenting with new teaching methods for his online reporting workshops this year.
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Social media skills for journalists
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Teaching j-students to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked In and You Tube, is something most j-schools are beginning to try, or at least consider. For those looking for guidance about how to do it, two Columbia University professors have generously posted a course outline, complete with links to resources and examples, as a Google Doc for everyone to view. Sree Sreenivasan and Adam Glenn's course is called Social-media Skills for Journalists.
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Tips, tools and tutorials for better online skills
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One of the best sources of advice, links and lessons for anyone who wants to teach themselves or others to be better online journalists is the blog, Teaching Online Journalism, by Mindy McAdams, a journalism professor at the University of Florida. Now, she has produced a one-stop shop online with a short but valuable collection of links to some of the best tools for online journalists and great examples of multimedia journalism. This valuable handout also includes links to all 15 parts of the series she produced this summer online called the Reporters Guide to Multimedia Proficiency. It's a great set of how-to lessons for beginners.
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Online tutorials for multimedia beginners
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You can find tutorials and tip sheets to teach yourself a variety of multimedia tools from making Google maps to telling stories with audio and video at a vareity of different sites online. One journalism instructor in New Jersey has pulled several key tutorials from different sources together in one helpful blog post. Mark Berkey-Gerard says based on his course evaluations last term these are ones his students appreciated.
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Teaching students to blog
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New York University professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen led an online chat at Poynter recently to offer advice about to teach blogging and answer questions from educators about things such as how to construct and evaluate assignments related to blogging.
The archived chat is available at this link.
He returned a week later for an encore chat to discuss more best practices regarding the teaching of blogging with other educators.
The second chat is available at this link.
Educators have begun to share resources they use in their classrooms, at the same page, by sending comments below the chat window.
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Teaching j-students about Twitter
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Suddenly, it seems, everyone is twittering. Or, if they're not, they feel they should be. Journalists who first dismissed it as a useless time waster are now seeing it as a good way to find sources, leads and breaking news. Journalism educators are scrambling to learn to use it well enough to teach their students to use it, too. Here's a page of resources to help get you started.
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The role of blogs in journalism education
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 In some ways the blog is similar to op-ed writing, notes online news pioneer and UBC j-prof Alfred Hermida, in this article about incorporating blogging into journalism education. Blogs have emerged as a "powerful platform" for journalists, he writes, and are a valuable learning tool for students.
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Video tutorial for Google Reader
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If you are trying to teach or encourage your students to use RSS feeds, specifically through Google Reader, you may find this online video tutorial helpful as a teaching aid or additional link to any course materials you post on course websites. It's a clear 10 minute guide with lots of screen captures and simple instructions. Be warned, it takes more than a few seconds to load.
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