Category: Education
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More talk about new media classes
Steve Sloan has posted the second half of the Pizzacast, a discussion about a New Media class to be offered next semester in SJSU’s J-School. I’m going to stand by my idea that this class should be a training ground for Online Editors going on to student media, in the way that the 133 Copy…
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Pizzacasting for answers
I had an interesting time last night at the Pizzacast session. It was a small group with a wide range of interests (journalism, public relations, computer science, theater, business, aggregators), and the conversation ranged wildly from the on-topic question of what to teach in the upcoming New Media class at SJSU’s j-school, to some pleasantly…
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Geek pizza dinner tonight
Just a reminder: There’s a geek dinner tonight for anyone and everyone interested in talking about the New Media (lab?) class being offered next semester at SJSU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. If you’re an undergrad or grad student planning on taking classes in the department next semester, stop by for a slice (and/or…
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Building a community with newspaper blogs
John Robinson, editor of the blog-and-citizen-journalism-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina, points to Robin Roger’s UNC-Chapel Hill master’s thesis on “Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs.” [The full thesis as a PDF is here.] Robinson on the broad strokes of community-building: “We use the blogs to help us add information, context…
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SJSU JMC Geek Dinner next Tuesday
Steve Sloan, Cynthia McCune, and other folks will all be getting together at Tony Soprano’s Pizzeria this Tuesday at 6pm to talk about plans for JOUR 163, a course on producing new media for the web that will be offered next semester in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at SJSU. Steve says he’ll…
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My potential thesis has reared its bloggy head
Regular readers (both of you) might have noticed slow posting here lately, but really regular readers will recall that this happens at the end of every semester as I ramp up the whole term-paper-writing thing. This semester, I’m plugging away at what will become the literature review for my thesis. It’s all about blogging-at-newspapers. I’m…
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At last, Spartan Daily Soundslides
The photo and online crews at the Spartan Daily have been quietly grinding away at getting more multimedia content running at www.thespartandaily.com this semester, and it’s paying off. Today, the Daily put up its first photo-slideshow-with-audio created with a program called Soundslides. It’s cheap and easy, and it makes for simple to post, dramatic presentations.…
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Student media under fire
I’ve got a guest column in today’s Spartan Daily that elaborates on the dangers of the Hosty v. Carter decision, what State Assemblyman Leland Yee wants to do about it, and why we’re actually pretty safe on public campuses in sunny California. Here’s an excerpt from the column: “College newspapers often boast that they are…
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How to cover the President
No, I didn’t cover the Bush-in-San-Jose event, but J-School photobloggerjournalist Daniel Esch was one of the Spartan Daily staff at Cisco last Friday with the Commander-in-Chief. Check out what Daniel has to say about covering W, Arnold, and friends.
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Salam Pax audio is online
One of the Salam Pax talks in San Jose last month is now online as a Commonwealth Club podcast here. It looks like the audio will also be on KQED (88.5 FM in the Bay Area). You can find the story I wrote for the Daily on his talk at SJSU here. An excerpt from…