Archive for 'Social Media'
Cover It Live Chat: Social Media and the High School Journalist – Incorporating Social Media Into Your Program
Posted on 28. Jan, 2012 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet The digital media committee hosted the first in a series of JEA’s Cover It Live chats. The event was Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 and covered a variety of topics from how to use social media if your school blocks the sites to best practices with the different social options. If you didn’t get a [...]
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Join Us For Tonight’s Cover It Live Chat: Social Media and High School Journalism
Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet Join the Digital Media Committee as we host the first of JEA’s weekly Cover It Live online chats. Our discussion will center around high school journalism and social media. The chat will take place tonight at 7 p.m. CST. This is an online chat for anyone. If your staff is already online and social [...]
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Are you pregnant or a CNN Triathlete
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Bryan Farley.
Tweet During the discussion to my last post, Holly Soboroff mentioned that “many people feel like they have nothing to contribute to the conversation, or that their comments aren’t welcome, or they just would rather not speak up for whatever reason.” Holly posed many other questions about whether people, and women in particular, might choose to [...]
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The News and Retractions of Joe Paterno’s Death Told Through Storify
Posted on 22. Jan, 2012 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet Joe Paterno’s failing health was a topic of conversation on the web Jan. 21. It became the main thing being talked about though around 8 p.m. when numerous news organizations reported that the former Penn State football coach had died. Word spread quickly, and just about as fast, news organizations began retracting their initial [...]
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Video Tutorials on setting up, moderating and participating in a CoverItLive chat
Posted on 20. Jan, 2012 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet We’ve posted pieces on CoverItLive before on this site. It’s on online tool you can use to host live, online discussions. You can see the Hilite.org staff’s use of it during the 2011 State of the Union Address. The program has a variety of uses ranging from live coverage of news and sports events [...]
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Everything I Learned About Digital Media
Posted on 17. Jan, 2012 by Bryan Farley.
Tweet Are journalism educators asking the right questions about digital and social media? How do we know when we engage readers? How do we encourage interaction? Do teachers crave feedback and fear silence? If you knew you could be heard, what would you contribute? As one of the early members of the JEA Digital Media committee, I [...]
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Pick a team, follow its sports writers on Twitter, improve your reporting
Posted on 06. Jan, 2012 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet Mashable posted a piece yesterday entitled 11 Sports Writers you need to Follow on Twitter. It’s a good list that includes big names from Erin Andrews of ESPN to Grantland.com founder Bill Simmons. While the list is good, I think students and advisers looking for some best practices in sports reporting should turn to [...]
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Secrets of a Successful Broadcast Journalism Program
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Michael Hernandez.
Tweet The challenges of establishing and maintaining a broadcast journalism program are numerous. How do you generate story ideas? What do you say to students who want to produce a comedy show? How do you grade students? What are the best cameras and editing systems to use and how many will you need? And then [...]
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Your staff has a Facebook and Twitter, now take a look at adding a Tumblr.
Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet This video give you a little look into Tumblr., another of the many social media sites out there where people are sharing things. While it may not yield the traffic a Facebook presence might, scholastic media staffs should take note of this tool and consider creating a Tumblr. It’s easy to post photos, video [...]
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