Creating this project was one big challenge not only for the directors but also for each and every member of this team. We all knew it was going to be something totally worth it but in order to accomplish it, required a lot of sacrifice and open mind. I felt that this group was unlike any other. I have never been part of a fifteen person group to work a final project, but hey, in New Media that's what it takes. I beleived that the only way to succeed in this was to be creative, listening but also giving advice, being ready to learn knew things as well as to master those things you already knew how to do, and most importantly, responsability.
My part in this project was to assist Brock and Samie in Louie's interview, to conduct past NMC student interviews, record voice-overs, and finally create/edit the music for the final credits.
In Louie's interview my job was to film Samie and Brock doing their jobs. We thought it would be cool to get some behind the scenes stuff, but also to have in the record some footage of NMC students actually working. I also took some shots of Louie during the interview from different angles since Brock had his camera on a tri-pod and had only one angle.
Conducting the interviews for past NMC students was a great experience. I came up with ten different questions that basically asked what they think New Media is and how far the The NMC program at Oregon State has gone. They were delighted to have been included in this project and came up with some great, very usefull responses and quotes.
Recording voice-overs was a challenge but a great experience. Me and Tom had no idea how we were going to do this due to the fact that we had never used ProTools before, we weren't at all familiar with the software. So Laura was kind enough to show us around the studio and the software. We still don't master the software but at least we have a head start and were able to record everything with no problem. The voice-overs we recorded were quotes from current and past NMC students that Samie and Ryan pulled out from the interviews, some great, well thought out quotes.
My final part in this project was to create music for the ending credits. I mean create, because we were not able to find the music that we wanted without it being professional music being promoted. So here was another challenge because I had never before used the software, SoundtrackPro. It turned out to be a fairly easy software to use, however very time consuming. I actually fell in love with the program due to the fact that I love music.
So to wrap things up, personally this was simply a great experience! Having sixteen minds including Pam's, throwing out ideas and working together was fantastic. You have to keep in mind though you will always find minds that collapse against eachother just because they have different point of views ,and this is definetly the ultimate challenge any group especially this one had to face. However, every point of view is that extra help needed to accomplish the goals set, but also to look back in the end and say, "it was worth it."
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Anatomy of Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide
I think this can be very interesting to people that rely and use twitter every minute of their lifes. I also think this could also help news corporations to clearly know what they are allowed to post and what they are not, just in case something doesn't feel right to post. Any question or doubts people have about the website, purchasing the book will definitely help them get easily around the website.
Jenna Wortham, author of this article mentions that Mr. Sagolla, author of the book, says that previous publications about Twitter have nothing to do with this new publication "140 Characters," he says, "this book is an attempt to create easy rules for sorts of networking sites, including Facebook." So again, people that are addicts to social networking, Facebook users, etc., will be able to look back at this book and figure what is right to do and what is not legal to do in this website. Also they can pull out tips on how to use the website in a better way.
According to the article, Mr Sagolla says the book will be available online through itunes by the end of February. The reason they are going to release it only through Facebook for now, is so they can get some previous feedback before printing the actual copy and also to attract interested publishing houses. I think this is a great idea, I beleive people are going to like having access to it online and paying a decent cheap price for it. Getting a sense of what the book is about, so in the future they can have a hard a copy if they liked it.
Jenna Wortham, author of this article mentions that Mr. Sagolla, author of the book, says that previous publications about Twitter have nothing to do with this new publication "140 Characters," he says, "this book is an attempt to create easy rules for sorts of networking sites, including Facebook." So again, people that are addicts to social networking, Facebook users, etc., will be able to look back at this book and figure what is right to do and what is not legal to do in this website. Also they can pull out tips on how to use the website in a better way.
According to the article, Mr Sagolla says the book will be available online through itunes by the end of February. The reason they are going to release it only through Facebook for now, is so they can get some previous feedback before printing the actual copy and also to attract interested publishing houses. I think this is a great idea, I beleive people are going to like having access to it online and paying a decent cheap price for it. Getting a sense of what the book is about, so in the future they can have a hard a copy if they liked it.
How to Present While People are Twittering
According to the article Tamar Weinberg posted on the webiste"Pistachio," a survey of leadership conferences show that people are communicating via blogs and twitter during conferences. Personally I beleive that in a way this method is better becasue now people don't have to whisper to each other, interrupting the speaker, however, people staring at their computers throughout the whole presentation is irrespectful to the speaker. You are at a conference to listen to someone very important speak, not to communicate with your laptops, you could do that later.
This leads into what Weinberg says about how the speaker has to adapt by speaking to what they call a "back channel," people looking at their computers instead of looking at the actual person speaking. How would a speaker adapt to this its my question. Why not instead, if people aren't going to pay direct attention to the speaker, conduct the conference via internet. in this way they can play with their computers as much as they can without irrespecting anybody.
The article shows how the back channel can be benefit from this and also how the speaker can get soemthing good out of this.
Benefits of the back channel inlcude; the audience gets more content, the audience can participate and innovate, you can conncet with people, you can do something else. This few benefits I pulled out from the article are what I beleive it's total crap. You don't need to connect with people during a live speaker presenting to you. You can easily have a blog of paper to jot down notes so you can creat and innovate, making it look more professional that having to stare at your laptop the whole conference. Beleive it or not the computer somehow will distract you even though you might not think it does.
On the other hand, benefits to the speaker include; typing means you're provoking interest, you'll get immediate feedback, they won't fall asleep. Again, I think this is crap. You can jot down notes on a sheet of paper, you could tape record the conference, many ways you could show you are interested instead of staring at your computer. The speaker won't get immediate feedback, they already have the presentation set up.
This leads into what Weinberg says about how the speaker has to adapt by speaking to what they call a "back channel," people looking at their computers instead of looking at the actual person speaking. How would a speaker adapt to this its my question. Why not instead, if people aren't going to pay direct attention to the speaker, conduct the conference via internet. in this way they can play with their computers as much as they can without irrespecting anybody.
The article shows how the back channel can be benefit from this and also how the speaker can get soemthing good out of this.
Benefits of the back channel inlcude; the audience gets more content, the audience can participate and innovate, you can conncet with people, you can do something else. This few benefits I pulled out from the article are what I beleive it's total crap. You don't need to connect with people during a live speaker presenting to you. You can easily have a blog of paper to jot down notes so you can creat and innovate, making it look more professional that having to stare at your laptop the whole conference. Beleive it or not the computer somehow will distract you even though you might not think it does.
On the other hand, benefits to the speaker include; typing means you're provoking interest, you'll get immediate feedback, they won't fall asleep. Again, I think this is crap. You can jot down notes on a sheet of paper, you could tape record the conference, many ways you could show you are interested instead of staring at your computer. The speaker won't get immediate feedback, they already have the presentation set up.
Final Project Update 3
Last thursday me and Tom with the help of Laura, met at the music lab to record voice overs of past NMC student quotes. It went really well. Laura showed us step by step on how to use it. The equipment is top of the line stuff. I liked it so much taht I left interested in learning how to use the equipment at its fullest.
Sunday at 5:30 is the meeting. We are going to go over what everyone did this week and put it all together. Also, we are going go over our runsheet to see what is missing and how it's coming along.
Sunday at 5:30 is the meeting. We are going to go over what everyone did this week and put it all together. Also, we are going go over our runsheet to see what is missing and how it's coming along.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Facebook Reverts to Previous Terms
Adam Ostrow mentions in his article, "That was quick" after Facebook's one and only Mark Zuckerberg changes the site's Term of Use back to its normal position after trying to defend the uncoherent changes he try to make to the policy. I am not surprised at all that Zuckerberg was forced to immediately change it back to were it was. No official research has be done to find out if people try to escape facebook or delete their account for good, but what I do know it's that he scared away millions of facebook users.
The reason I know that millions of users were scared is becasue not only everyone close to me including myself got scared, but also because Ostrow mentions in his article that the company created a poll to find out what users thought about the controversial changes being made. Not to be surprised at all, 6 percent supported the new changes but 56 percent opposed to them, 38 percent didn't respond.
So what was Zuckerberg force to do after his "plan" completley failed. I call it a plan becasue all hi was trying to do was either tell his users something they wanted to hear or by word of mouth, non users to be alarmed and influenced by the ne terms of use, and join the website. Of course he didn't get what he wanted so somehow he had to send a Terms of Use Update saying that the policy would remain the way it was. He not only did this but also, according to Ostrow's article, he wrote a blog post saying that Facebook is going back to the original terms and that this was the right thing to do due to the overly formal language used in the new terms.
I totally agree with Adam Ostrow mentions at the end of his article about the smart move Facebook pulled out. I beleive they digged out the whole they got into pretty well, and now they are back on track. But what I also beleive is that besides getting back on track by creating the "Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsabilities" option, they ensured that that this issue doesn't plague the social network in the future, Ostrow mentions, something I think the company did very well.
The reason I know that millions of users were scared is becasue not only everyone close to me including myself got scared, but also because Ostrow mentions in his article that the company created a poll to find out what users thought about the controversial changes being made. Not to be surprised at all, 6 percent supported the new changes but 56 percent opposed to them, 38 percent didn't respond.
So what was Zuckerberg force to do after his "plan" completley failed. I call it a plan becasue all hi was trying to do was either tell his users something they wanted to hear or by word of mouth, non users to be alarmed and influenced by the ne terms of use, and join the website. Of course he didn't get what he wanted so somehow he had to send a Terms of Use Update saying that the policy would remain the way it was. He not only did this but also, according to Ostrow's article, he wrote a blog post saying that Facebook is going back to the original terms and that this was the right thing to do due to the overly formal language used in the new terms.
I totally agree with Adam Ostrow mentions at the end of his article about the smart move Facebook pulled out. I beleive they digged out the whole they got into pretty well, and now they are back on track. But what I also beleive is that besides getting back on track by creating the "Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsabilities" option, they ensured that that this issue doesn't plague the social network in the future, Ostrow mentions, something I think the company did very well.
Final Project Update 2
Thursday of last week I finished interviewing past NMC students with Lindsay Schnell's interview. It went very well, she has a lot of experience and from my point of view she is done what it needs to be done in order to succeed in the world of journalism. She had a lot of great quotes and tips that could help current and new media students and of course help make this project even better. I taped record the interview and send the work to Samie and Ryan so they could transcribe it.
We had a group meeting last night in Hoveland Lab and it went fairly well. Everyone showed up with their work. We gathered mostly everything that needed to be done on that deadline. For this week Samie assigned more work to the people that had already finished their work (this includes me). So my job for this week is to voice over quotes from current and past media students in the music lab, I will be working with Tom and the deadline is no later than this Friday.
Looking forward to it!
We had a group meeting last night in Hoveland Lab and it went fairly well. Everyone showed up with their work. We gathered mostly everything that needed to be done on that deadline. For this week Samie assigned more work to the people that had already finished their work (this includes me). So my job for this week is to voice over quotes from current and past media students in the music lab, I will be working with Tom and the deadline is no later than this Friday.
Looking forward to it!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Death of News
Most people already know that journalism itself is in a big crisis. Gary Kamiya mentions in his article that, "daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, and the survivors are slashing their budgets. Thousands of reporters and editors have lost their jobs." She points out a statistic provided by analyst Allan Mutter, that in 2008 was the worst year for newspaper publishers, with an 83 percent dropping of shares. From my point of view, this is something not only journalists are terrified from but also the audience of the newspapers.
If newspapers in a way are vanishing, is the new media going to take over? Well what about reporting? This is the important question we need to ask ourselves, becasue according to Kamiya, "the real problem isn't that newspapers may be doomed, what is really threatened by the decline of newspapers and the related rise of online media is reporting." And yes, I totally beleive this because most of the reporting originates from newspapers, and what if newspapers disappear, then those well trained journalists that work hard towards finding stories with true unbiased facts, will have no place to go.
New media, also known as online media, is what people are now days using to get their news. I am of those thousand of people accessing the web to be updated on what is going on the world. But this is not what we are looking at here, what we are looking at, is how online media is taking away millions of journalist jobs and preventing them from going to certain parts of the world and where actual live, hard work, unbiased reporting is done. I am not saying online media does not have great reliable sources because otherwise online news wouldn't be have much success, but I am certain that all we are going to have are stories written by people who do not have a neutral site posting them online.
Primary reporting will soon be out of the picture if this keeps going the way it has been since 2008. Something needs to be done in order for the online media to go by their business and not interrupt the great work newspaper companies have done for the past decades, bringing people an ink copy of news every morning to their house, so they can enjoy the sunrise and their cup of coffee.
If newspapers in a way are vanishing, is the new media going to take over? Well what about reporting? This is the important question we need to ask ourselves, becasue according to Kamiya, "the real problem isn't that newspapers may be doomed, what is really threatened by the decline of newspapers and the related rise of online media is reporting." And yes, I totally beleive this because most of the reporting originates from newspapers, and what if newspapers disappear, then those well trained journalists that work hard towards finding stories with true unbiased facts, will have no place to go.
New media, also known as online media, is what people are now days using to get their news. I am of those thousand of people accessing the web to be updated on what is going on the world. But this is not what we are looking at here, what we are looking at, is how online media is taking away millions of journalist jobs and preventing them from going to certain parts of the world and where actual live, hard work, unbiased reporting is done. I am not saying online media does not have great reliable sources because otherwise online news wouldn't be have much success, but I am certain that all we are going to have are stories written by people who do not have a neutral site posting them online.
Primary reporting will soon be out of the picture if this keeps going the way it has been since 2008. Something needs to be done in order for the online media to go by their business and not interrupt the great work newspaper companies have done for the past decades, bringing people an ink copy of news every morning to their house, so they can enjoy the sunrise and their cup of coffee.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Student Suspended for Lewd Facebook Message
This is not a first time thing. I beleive it's occuring quite a lot around schools through out the nation and finally a case has been discovered. An article by Steve Kolowich published in "The Chronilce of Higher Education" website, talks about a Calvin College student that has been suspended from school due to a lewd Facebook message he posted about his ex-girlfriend. This means that he not only commited a crime, but also violated the school's policy.
People, this is very delicate! I know there are people that are experts at hacking systems, but you have to protect your privacy. What I mean by this, is that you have to keep your password to yourself and share it to noone, even the closest person to you, it could be your best friend, your girlfriend or boyfriend and even your parents, what is private, should remain private.
The article states that the student, Mr. Harris, claimed that his girlfriend was the one that logged onto his account becasue she knew his password and supposely posted the message. Town police officers find this, "very unconvinced" Kolowich quotes.
Why does Mr. Harris girlfriend have his Facebook password? Did she steal it or did she get it from him, we don't know this, however the most obvious thing would be to think that the password was given out due to the fact that within the relationship things were very confidential. How confidential can it get though? From my point of view, your password is like you going to the toilette and locking the door because nobody else wants to see your private parts and what you do in there. Your own privacy is very delicate and people need to start realizing that on-line realms are somehow private for you to use, but can also in a way harm your reputation.
People, this is very delicate! I know there are people that are experts at hacking systems, but you have to protect your privacy. What I mean by this, is that you have to keep your password to yourself and share it to noone, even the closest person to you, it could be your best friend, your girlfriend or boyfriend and even your parents, what is private, should remain private.
The article states that the student, Mr. Harris, claimed that his girlfriend was the one that logged onto his account becasue she knew his password and supposely posted the message. Town police officers find this, "very unconvinced" Kolowich quotes.
Why does Mr. Harris girlfriend have his Facebook password? Did she steal it or did she get it from him, we don't know this, however the most obvious thing would be to think that the password was given out due to the fact that within the relationship things were very confidential. How confidential can it get though? From my point of view, your password is like you going to the toilette and locking the door because nobody else wants to see your private parts and what you do in there. Your own privacy is very delicate and people need to start realizing that on-line realms are somehow private for you to use, but can also in a way harm your reputation.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Multimedia...but why?
Why wouldn't you use multimedia if it's probably the people's favorite way to be entretained and influenced. From my personl point of view I beleive multimedia makes everything look more alive and real, the movement of cool looking graphics and sounds catches people's attention in a very different and influential way. In today's world everyone likes to be entretained, and dont't get me wrong, I'm not saying that by reading people aren't going to feel entretained, but I feel and I know that many people feel like by seeing an ad in a multimedia layout it will increase their sense of influence towards what's being advertised.
For example, an article published in the blog "10,000 words.net" talks about an issue in a magazine that was advertising Calvin Klein with a timeline of their history using cool titles and pictures of their models. The author of this article asked himself; " Why would this already nicely designed infographic need the interactive treatment?" This made me think for a minute and reflect on it. I kept on reading, and what I thought would be the answer is what the author had answered as well; "to attract more viewers and stand out in a sea of graphics"
This example shows how the interaction and the use of moving cool graphics can portray information in a simple but compelling manner and make it look much more interesting, and as I mentioned before, entretained the viewers as much as you can.
I forgot to mention, the author of this article claims that web users are spending much more time online and are better served with content that will keep them entretained rather than putting them to sleep. I beleive that this is what journalists should be doing and I am glad, based on my research that they are starting to use multimedia to present their news.
For example, an article published in the blog "10,000 words.net" talks about an issue in a magazine that was advertising Calvin Klein with a timeline of their history using cool titles and pictures of their models. The author of this article asked himself; " Why would this already nicely designed infographic need the interactive treatment?" This made me think for a minute and reflect on it. I kept on reading, and what I thought would be the answer is what the author had answered as well; "to attract more viewers and stand out in a sea of graphics"
This example shows how the interaction and the use of moving cool graphics can portray information in a simple but compelling manner and make it look much more interesting, and as I mentioned before, entretained the viewers as much as you can.
I forgot to mention, the author of this article claims that web users are spending much more time online and are better served with content that will keep them entretained rather than putting them to sleep. I beleive that this is what journalists should be doing and I am glad, based on my research that they are starting to use multimedia to present their news.
Guest Speaker; Lindsay Schnell
On tuesday February 10th, 2009, we had a guest speaker in our NMC 301 course. Her name is Lindsay Schnell; a current NMC student at Oregon State that has a passion for sports and journalism (writing). She has been recognize for her good and hard work from many magazine and newspaper companies. She is now doing some work with The Oregonian and has experienced working with the magazine Sports Illustrated through an internship.
During the talk she told us that we needed to be severly passionate about what we wanted to do in life, she added that this is the way to succeed at what you want to in life. When you are passionate about something you will do whatever it takes to accomplish it, you will need to work hard and sacrifice many things.
She talked about a quote that made a lot of sense in my head; "dream big, work harder" I beleive that if you want to reach your dreams you better give it all you have. This is the reason I enjoyed listening to Lindsay speak. Everything she said was very true and got along very well to the way I see things in life, I think we can all learn from her and keep working hard.
During the talk she told us that we needed to be severly passionate about what we wanted to do in life, she added that this is the way to succeed at what you want to in life. When you are passionate about something you will do whatever it takes to accomplish it, you will need to work hard and sacrifice many things.
She talked about a quote that made a lot of sense in my head; "dream big, work harder" I beleive that if you want to reach your dreams you better give it all you have. This is the reason I enjoyed listening to Lindsay speak. Everything she said was very true and got along very well to the way I see things in life, I think we can all learn from her and keep working hard.
Final Project Update
On friday, Samie, Brock and I interviewed Louie in his office. Samie asked the questions while Brock was filming. My job was to go around the room, very quitely, filiming Brock and Samie working on their "jobs", kind of behind the scenes shots. I also filmed Louie from different anlge so we could a variety of shots to choose from. It was a great experience and everything worked out just fine.
Also, I already interviewed a couple of past NMC students, I'm still wating to hear from two more. The responses I thought were very good and complete, I feel that they have a lot of vital information that can help this project be even better, the experience they have from spending time ar OSU its soemthing us as current media students should learn from.
In the next few days I will be interviewing one more past NMC student and hopefully hear back from the ones that haven't replied yet.
Also, I already interviewed a couple of past NMC students, I'm still wating to hear from two more. The responses I thought were very good and complete, I feel that they have a lot of vital information that can help this project be even better, the experience they have from spending time ar OSU its soemthing us as current media students should learn from.
In the next few days I will be interviewing one more past NMC student and hopefully hear back from the ones that haven't replied yet.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
"Facebook for Parents" Course
Is this really a good idea? Many adult parents think it is and are willing to do what it takes to find out what their kids are up to. A recent article posted on a blog reveals that a Stanford University researcher is teaching a "Facebook for Parents" course that teaches them and allows them to access their kids page and navigate through it.
Personally, when I first got a friend request from my dad I was kind of hesitant, but then I thought; it's my family I don't mind if they know what I am up to. I trust in them and they trust in me. Actually, I beleive that them being able to see to themselves what I am up to and who I hang out with will bring them more calmness and confidence about their kids. I say this because I am very careful of what I post and write on facebook. Even when I get a pictured tagged from a friend, I take a look at it and see if its appropriate or not.
Many kids don't do this, actually most of them that have accounts with Facebook don't do this. They just want to post everything out there, put their faces out there so that everyone can see who you are and what you are up to. They don't realize that there is some stuff that shouldn't be posted on such public online social-network.
According to the article, one of the instructors for "Facebook for Parents" course, Linda Fogg Phillips quotes that "it depends what age group they're in, there are appropriate times to back off." This quote relates back to what I've been trying to explain. Younger kids don't have such thorough understanding that posting too much on Facebook can somehow damage their reputation. I beleive this is what started the interest of researchers and parents to spy on their kids. Why not take a look and what you're kids are up to when its all right there on a website. But wait, many parents don't know how to do it, so that is why this course was created and I beleive is very productive.
Personally, when I first got a friend request from my dad I was kind of hesitant, but then I thought; it's my family I don't mind if they know what I am up to. I trust in them and they trust in me. Actually, I beleive that them being able to see to themselves what I am up to and who I hang out with will bring them more calmness and confidence about their kids. I say this because I am very careful of what I post and write on facebook. Even when I get a pictured tagged from a friend, I take a look at it and see if its appropriate or not.
Many kids don't do this, actually most of them that have accounts with Facebook don't do this. They just want to post everything out there, put their faces out there so that everyone can see who you are and what you are up to. They don't realize that there is some stuff that shouldn't be posted on such public online social-network.
According to the article, one of the instructors for "Facebook for Parents" course, Linda Fogg Phillips quotes that "it depends what age group they're in, there are appropriate times to back off." This quote relates back to what I've been trying to explain. Younger kids don't have such thorough understanding that posting too much on Facebook can somehow damage their reputation. I beleive this is what started the interest of researchers and parents to spy on their kids. Why not take a look and what you're kids are up to when its all right there on a website. But wait, many parents don't know how to do it, so that is why this course was created and I beleive is very productive.
Monday, February 9, 2009
How Not To Lose Face on Facebook, for Professors
Jefrey Young points out a very good example of how Facebook can damage people's face in a matter of seconds. In this case Young is talking about professors, and how posting comments or information can affect their jobs. One night, a religion professor at Dartmouth College updated her profile saying that she had consulted an online encyclopedia to get ready for next days class. The problem here was that she thought that the Facebook account she set up was only to be seen by people she added or confirmed as friends, but she made a mistake; she had no idea that her Facebook was set up for anyone to see and access.
Blog reports including shots of the professor were posted from students at Dartmouth and before you know it linkage from this blogs were past on to many people. Imagine how this professor felt like? Young points out that for years college administrators have warned students to watch carefully what they do in online social realms, to no post too much that might hurt their reputation, now, Young says that due to the catching fever of Facebook from professors and administrators, they should have their own advice.
I totally agree with what Young is trying to get across. I believe Facebook's power to get people to get an account it's incredibly persuasive, who would of thought that adults, parents, professors would begin to encounter in such social realms. It has become a part of people's lives and many of us are using it a wrong way. Young's example of the professor at Dartmouth College says it all. Students have been advice by the school they are attending, not only Dartmouth but many more around the nation, how to use Facebook in a moderate way. I think adults such as professors in this case, come up with their own advice so they don't embarrass or hurt students and especially parents that are paying for the education.
One of the big problems Young points out about adults using Facebook is that they do not know how create an account properly. By properly, I mean to pay attention to every detailed option you have to choose from and set your settings they you want them to be, in this case make it private for random people to check out and public for those you know and have relationships with. This is the mistake the religion teacher at Dartmouth committed that cost her almost to lose her face around campus.
Young in this article has a paragraph that guides you step by step on how to set up your private settings. You should check it out.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Can New Media Be Tought In Schools?
Would it be that bad if new media was tought in schools? Marshal Kirpatrick points out in this article that there is some merit to teaching new media in journalism and other schools. I would have to definately agree with this but also add that I beleive is a very good idea that such broader and real life topic be taught in included in journalism and taught in schools. I don't understand why would it be so bad since new media relates directly to journalism and has such big impact on people's lives.
Kirpatrick points out that old media is slow, less compelling and somewhat expensive compared to some media online. She is right, I beleive the use of old media now days has very little use compared to the new media being produced, there is no doubt in my mind that old media is still very useful, but when you have faster, easier, cheaper way to interact and receive news why wouldn't you explore it and try it out.
So, as Marshal points out, there are many skills that need to be taught about new media, like blogging, RSS, tagging, wikis, podcasting and much more, but are theses skill sets able to be taught in schools? Why not I say. Marshal states that most people they've talked to in schools think they can facilitate learning experiences in new media, however this isn't everything about new media.
I beleive it is all about transmitting to students in an interactive way the information that new meida provides. Visually I think is the best way to approach this in schools. Kids learn faster and better when they are able to see soemthing and play with it. A great example would be putting a kid to play Second Life as Kirpatrick says, "let them have an avatar for a day and then teach them how to navigate to the most interesting events going on there."
It is definatley a challenge, but a challenge that if it's overcomed, grown up kids and teachers are going to be thankful new media was introduced at such early age.
Kirpatrick points out that old media is slow, less compelling and somewhat expensive compared to some media online. She is right, I beleive the use of old media now days has very little use compared to the new media being produced, there is no doubt in my mind that old media is still very useful, but when you have faster, easier, cheaper way to interact and receive news why wouldn't you explore it and try it out.
So, as Marshal points out, there are many skills that need to be taught about new media, like blogging, RSS, tagging, wikis, podcasting and much more, but are theses skill sets able to be taught in schools? Why not I say. Marshal states that most people they've talked to in schools think they can facilitate learning experiences in new media, however this isn't everything about new media.
I beleive it is all about transmitting to students in an interactive way the information that new meida provides. Visually I think is the best way to approach this in schools. Kids learn faster and better when they are able to see soemthing and play with it. A great example would be putting a kid to play Second Life as Kirpatrick says, "let them have an avatar for a day and then teach them how to navigate to the most interesting events going on there."
It is definatley a challenge, but a challenge that if it's overcomed, grown up kids and teachers are going to be thankful new media was introduced at such early age.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Social Media; It's Bigger Than You Think
"The share of adult Internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from eight percent in 2005 to 35 percent now." A recent report done by Pew Internet and America Life Project quotes. It doesn't surprise me at all. Since the day my mom and dad asked me if I could help them create a Facebook account it's now normal to me. It still makes me laugh how Facebook is one of the ways I communicate visually, posting photos and verbally, sending messages with my parents.
The point Amy Gahran is trying to make in this article is the way adults are more and more rapidly getting involved into social networks compared to news organizations slow pace. This fact does surprise me. Is it because within news organizations social networking is not allowed and somewhat dangerous or is it because individuals within this organizations are just not alert of such social networking?
Gahran points out to the Knight Digital Media Center News Leadership 3.0 blog, Michele McLellan in which she quotes, "News organizations are limiting their reach to being familiar destinations or findable on search -- both of which are valuable, but not enough. ... I fear the problem is cultural, and perhaps less tractable than technical constraints."
Gahran says that she supports McLellan ideas that mindset and culture and the willingness to continously experiment is why within these organizations social networking is limited. I'd have to say I agree with these ideas. I beleive that having the mindset of treating social networking as a priority and a way to continously expermient and get involved in the real world can bring many advantages in the future of these organizations. Since organizations are easily findable on search there is a fear created, but this fear should not be the barrier of taking the advantage of social networking within newsrooms.
The point Amy Gahran is trying to make in this article is the way adults are more and more rapidly getting involved into social networks compared to news organizations slow pace. This fact does surprise me. Is it because within news organizations social networking is not allowed and somewhat dangerous or is it because individuals within this organizations are just not alert of such social networking?
Gahran points out to the Knight Digital Media Center News Leadership 3.0 blog, Michele McLellan in which she quotes, "News organizations are limiting their reach to being familiar destinations or findable on search -- both of which are valuable, but not enough. ... I fear the problem is cultural, and perhaps less tractable than technical constraints."
Gahran says that she supports McLellan ideas that mindset and culture and the willingness to continously experiment is why within these organizations social networking is limited. I'd have to say I agree with these ideas. I beleive that having the mindset of treating social networking as a priority and a way to continously expermient and get involved in the real world can bring many advantages in the future of these organizations. Since organizations are easily findable on search there is a fear created, but this fear should not be the barrier of taking the advantage of social networking within newsrooms.
How Newsrooms Are Using Twitter
Twitter, "a pointless, overrated or simply stupid site?" As far as I'm concerned I do not agree with any of these descriptions Jordan Harris, a software engineer at The New York Times points out. However I do agree that Twitter is a site that helps news organizations interact and do whatever they want with the news. From my point of view there is more to this site Harris might not know about.
Being able to micro-blog not only news but any kind of information out there in such quick moments, it's definately a huge advantage for newsrooms, it is something I feel they oughta put in practice not only to reach more and more users around the world but also to alert the world from current events happening where we might not be able to hear about.
If organizations such as The New York Times and many more are putting this medium into practice, I wouldn't call it pointless nor stupid. I agree, there risks at hand, like journalists accidentally leaking internal information, but the potential this medium has of spreading news instantly, whenever and wherever doesn't compare to the risks, which I think are small, intervene with the use of Twitter.
An example Mallary Tenore points out in this article about The Orlando Sentinel using Twitter is a great example why this medium is indispensable in newsrooms. The Sentinel's coverage of the Atlantis and Endeavour space shuttle through Twitter reach out to many people. Sending out tweets updating the shuttle's launch, how much time left, fuelin is done, even the countdown for the launch. People in cars or in places where they had no access to live TV coverage were able to follow the launch and how everything turned out through Twitter. After this event happened The Sentinel now has close to 80 followers.
This example points out how effective is Twitter at reaching out to new users, but not only this, I beleive that organizations using Twitter having or not having followers, they are still able to do their job of broadcasting news in an instant message to the world.
Being able to micro-blog not only news but any kind of information out there in such quick moments, it's definately a huge advantage for newsrooms, it is something I feel they oughta put in practice not only to reach more and more users around the world but also to alert the world from current events happening where we might not be able to hear about.
If organizations such as The New York Times and many more are putting this medium into practice, I wouldn't call it pointless nor stupid. I agree, there risks at hand, like journalists accidentally leaking internal information, but the potential this medium has of spreading news instantly, whenever and wherever doesn't compare to the risks, which I think are small, intervene with the use of Twitter.
An example Mallary Tenore points out in this article about The Orlando Sentinel using Twitter is a great example why this medium is indispensable in newsrooms. The Sentinel's coverage of the Atlantis and Endeavour space shuttle through Twitter reach out to many people. Sending out tweets updating the shuttle's launch, how much time left, fuelin is done, even the countdown for the launch. People in cars or in places where they had no access to live TV coverage were able to follow the launch and how everything turned out through Twitter. After this event happened The Sentinel now has close to 80 followers.
This example points out how effective is Twitter at reaching out to new users, but not only this, I beleive that organizations using Twitter having or not having followers, they are still able to do their job of broadcasting news in an instant message to the world.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
2009 Presidential Inaguration
To be honest I was pretty nervous the minute Pam said we had to interview people about what they thought of the inaguration. Interviewing random people has never been my favorite thing to do, especially about the topic at hand. I was lost and didn't know how to approach these people in order to get an answer from them. However as the night went on I felt more comfortable due to the fact that we were in groups and that if soemthing were to happend they'd had my back. By the end of the night I felt really good about the way things went.
We were a group of four media students walking around campus trying to find people that would take the time to answer a few questions. Some people were very kind about it but some people weren't very helpfull. We would approach certain people with a sense of insecurity because you just have no expectations whatsoever, you might walk away feeling uncomfortable, but you can also walk away pretty comofortable about what you did.
I was tremendously surprised at how many people didnt' watch it and at how many people didn't even care, quoting "It's just another President." I just can't beleive how some people, being american citizens aren't able to leave aside thier point of views and take a look at the historical moment not only America, but the whole world has witnessed. On the other hand you see people besides African Americans, that are completely overwhelmed, quoting " I never thought this day would come." It means something to them becasue they love their country and they have high hopes for what Barack has promised to do and change.
Being out there in the real world it's something very challenging to do, you hear and see many different things at once, you just don't know how to handle it. However when you finally realized you have made it through and have reality, true fact information, after a long time of discussing and obvserving, you now want to let it out into the world through a medium you think people are going to hear about. In this case, the medium used was Twitter.com
I have never used this tool before and thought it was great way to publish critical information anytime you needed to. Millions of people are going to be aware of it and this is a big gain, however what gets lost, is the fact you that you have limited space to write out the information so you are not abe to provide the information in a detailed, specific manner. In conlcusion I think is a very useful reporting tool.
We were a group of four media students walking around campus trying to find people that would take the time to answer a few questions. Some people were very kind about it but some people weren't very helpfull. We would approach certain people with a sense of insecurity because you just have no expectations whatsoever, you might walk away feeling uncomfortable, but you can also walk away pretty comofortable about what you did.
I was tremendously surprised at how many people didnt' watch it and at how many people didn't even care, quoting "It's just another President." I just can't beleive how some people, being american citizens aren't able to leave aside thier point of views and take a look at the historical moment not only America, but the whole world has witnessed. On the other hand you see people besides African Americans, that are completely overwhelmed, quoting " I never thought this day would come." It means something to them becasue they love their country and they have high hopes for what Barack has promised to do and change.
Being out there in the real world it's something very challenging to do, you hear and see many different things at once, you just don't know how to handle it. However when you finally realized you have made it through and have reality, true fact information, after a long time of discussing and obvserving, you now want to let it out into the world through a medium you think people are going to hear about. In this case, the medium used was Twitter.com
I have never used this tool before and thought it was great way to publish critical information anytime you needed to. Millions of people are going to be aware of it and this is a big gain, however what gets lost, is the fact you that you have limited space to write out the information so you are not abe to provide the information in a detailed, specific manner. In conlcusion I think is a very useful reporting tool.
Friday, January 16, 2009
NMC 301: Self-Inventory
My name is Diego Velasquez. I am from Bogota, Colombia. I took the risk of going far away from home for one simple reason; play college golf and work hard towards fulfilling my ultimate dream; be a professional golfer. I am a junior in New Media and so far it hasn't dissapoint me, I have actually enjoyed and learned more that I thought I would.
My media consumption is basically cable, internet and newspapers. ESPN is my favorite channel not only for the sport programs but also for it's interesting commercials. CNN, CNN in spanish and BBC are my favorite news channels and at least three times a week I turn to them. I check out my home countries newspapers online to stay updated. I have started to read the newspaper more instead of using the web to read news. Also I tend to skim through a lot of sports magazines because they usually have great articles and catchy propaganda.
As far as my social networking, I use facebook but I'm not addicted to it like many people are. I extremely dislike myspace by the way. I tend to text a lot, I think is an easy and fast way to communicate. I have never twitter or blogged. However that's about to change and I am really looking forward to it.
I got into new media simply because I love the medium in which we live and interact. The many different type of ways people communicate and the way new media it's so influential in tody's world. I hope to get out of this class with strong tools for writing that will help get my point across in a clear way, to push and promote the information I'm providing in an effective way. Also, I want to be more confident and comfortable while speaking in public or conversing with another person involved in the media.
My media consumption is basically cable, internet and newspapers. ESPN is my favorite channel not only for the sport programs but also for it's interesting commercials. CNN, CNN in spanish and BBC are my favorite news channels and at least three times a week I turn to them. I check out my home countries newspapers online to stay updated. I have started to read the newspaper more instead of using the web to read news. Also I tend to skim through a lot of sports magazines because they usually have great articles and catchy propaganda.
As far as my social networking, I use facebook but I'm not addicted to it like many people are. I extremely dislike myspace by the way. I tend to text a lot, I think is an easy and fast way to communicate. I have never twitter or blogged. However that's about to change and I am really looking forward to it.
I got into new media simply because I love the medium in which we live and interact. The many different type of ways people communicate and the way new media it's so influential in tody's world. I hope to get out of this class with strong tools for writing that will help get my point across in a clear way, to push and promote the information I'm providing in an effective way. Also, I want to be more confident and comfortable while speaking in public or conversing with another person involved in the media.
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