Teaching Online Journalism the open source way: week 1: “Why?”
In two weeks I begin teaching the 2008 class on Online Journalism. As a way of inviting ideas and being open source and all that, I thought I would post 2007′s classes online. The first lecture is below…
…it’s very much one-word slides with me riffing off them, but hopefully it gives you a sense of what areas I covered. The idea here is to get students thinking about their own motivations before they begin, and for me to get an idea of why they’re doing this.
I then give my own angle, before moving on to cover blogging and RSS. I used Wikio last year as the recommended RSS reader/personalised news site, which I came to regret – it was buggy.
The reading is from Stuart Allan’s Online News (Amazon.com link).
By the way, I blogged about the results at the time here.
Your thoughts are very much welcome.
Greetings, this is Miles over at Wikio!
We hope you’ll give our service another try; our bugs have since been hammered out, and we’ll be launching specifically in the UK very shortly.
Cheers,
Miles
‘Why not record classes and then put them online ? i’m currently listening to Foundations of American Cyber-Cultures by Prof. Greg Niemeyer at Berkeley, last semester. All classes are available here: http://studio.berkeley.edu/coursework/niemeyer/courses/23ac/podcasts.htm
Just started something similar myself – with less funky slides.
How excited where your students?
@Alex – I did try recording them, but a) never had time to edit it; and b) a podcast is fine for a one-way lecture but this is more conversational so perhaps doesn’t suit the medium as well.
May try again this year.
@Andy – I start on Monday. Will be blogging it! And they will be Twittering it!