Not all tweets are created equal: an activity for beginning journalists and Twitter newbies
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Sarah Nichols.
For lots of folks, Twitter is still more of a mystery or “second Facebook” than anything else. They’ve heard about the battle between Lady Gaga and Britney Spears for the most followers, or they read about the recent scandal when Mike Wise of The Washington Post deliberately sent a false tweet about Ben Roethlisberger. Seems [...]
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11 Tips for Creating Better Online Video from SmartBlogs.com
Posted on 06. Sep, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
This article came out over the summer, but I figured the masses would benefit from a post more now rather than in late July. It’s from SmartBlogs.com and it’s titled “11 Tips for Creating Better Online Video.” While this post isn’t specifically geared toward high school journalists, it’s a nice, simple list of tips for [...]
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All a Twitter
Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
ALL A TWITTER: A classroom lesson on how to turn Twitter into the greatest textbook in the world. Recently, I have been on a campaign to show students the benefit of Twitter. The advantages of Twitter are immense for aspiring journalists and anyone interested in news. With hundreds of professional journalists, media outlets, magazines, and [...]
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Promote your site with Facebook: 8 key steps
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Wendy Wallace.
It’s not enough to create a Facebook page for your school news site, post links to your stories and expect your fans to flock to your blog or website. For your Facebook page to help you, research shows you need to start by setting community expectations — what you expect of fans and what they can expect from you. And that’s just the beginning.
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From wpbeginner.com: 55+ WordPress Tips, Tricks & Hacks
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
This is a great post from wpbeginner.com. The site is a great one if you’re wanting to learn a bit more about WordPress. While it focuses heavily on things for beginners, WordPress users of all levels can find something here. This specific post has quite a few ideas that could be adapted and very useful [...]
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Is the Web dead?
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by Jim Streisel.
As young people’s use of Internet evolves, student journalists must change, too With technology evolving at a record pace, are we already behind the times as we spend our resources developing student news websites? Wired magazine’s September 2010 cover story titled “The Web is Dead: Long Live the Internet” discusses this very issue. (Click here [...]
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High School Educators Multimedia Workshop in Illinois
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
The Eastern Illinois University Journalism Department is partnering with the McCormick Foundation, the Illinois Press Foundation and the Illinois JEA to offer a free three-day Multimedia Workshop for high school journalism teachers and advisers Sept. 17-19 on the EIU campus in Charleston. Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri or Wisconsin advisers, as well as those in Illinois are [...]
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Start your beginning journalism class by measuring students’ connectivity
Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by Sarah Nichols.
As you welcome a new set of students this semester, hopefully you’ll be met by an excited room of media consumers and future journalists. More likely, though, you’ll be met with just as many sets of wide eyes and panicked freshmen. Learning about your students’ existing technology patterns and comfort level with social media can [...]
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Five ways to promote your site in the first weeks of school
Posted on 07. Aug, 2010 by Michelle Balmeo.
So you’ve spent all summer learning the difference between CSS and PHP and HTML, and now your staff has your fresh new site up and ready to go for the new year. Rather than targeting your grandma in Albuquerque, why not work with your staff to develop a site promotion plan that will drive new, [...]
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