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.
Online Journalism Blog 
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!
Your style is very unique in comparison to other people I
have read stuff from. Thanks for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I will just bookmark
this site.