Tools, Trends & StuffThat Caught Michelle Johnson’s Eye at #ONA12

Suitable for Classroom (and other) Use!

What is This?As one of the co-chairs of the ONA Student Newsroom and a volunteer on lots of other convention student projects, I learn as much as I teach.

This is:1) A look at some of the tools we used to produce

newsroom.journalists.org that I’ll be taking back to my multimedia journalism classes at Boston University.

2) Trends and issues worthy of discussing in class.

Enjoy!

Me. In a convention student project newsroom. Working. As usual.Official: Michelle Johnson is Assoc. Prof. of the Practice, Journalism, Boston University.

Student Newsroom Puts ONA On the Map

• ONA12 Attendee map produced with Google Fusion Tables. Started life as a csv. Nice way to visualize the more than 1,400 registrants.

Student Newsroom: Infographics

Need an infographic but you’re not a designer? No problem. With these web-based tools you, too, can do this. In minutes.

• ONA12 by the Numbers

• Is Diversity ONA’s Destiny?

Pre-designed, customizable templates. Embed code. Here: easel.ly and infogr.am

Newsroom: Interactive Graphics

• Session Map• Anatomy of New Journalist

Produced with:• http://www.thinglink.com/

Student drew this image, too. Showoff!

Student Newsroom

Video/Coding Mashup• Interactive: Eliminat

e Your Fear of Code

Two clever students collaborated on this clever little interactive.

ONA Conference Curated

• ONA12 As Seen on InstaGram

• What’s Trending at ONA

Misc. Other Stuff• The newsroom co-chairs used GroupMe to stay in touch. Our own backchannel. I

felt so special….

• Chartbeat delivered metrics for the student and official ONA convention sites.

• Meograph, but we didn’t get to use it. Tool for creating multimedia stories.

• 12 Stopped by their table at the ONA Midway. Hasn’t launched yet. Shared reading app, strictly for iPad. And yes, you create a group of just 12 people you trust to curate your reading experience.

• Tout Atctually saw this at another conference over the summer. Post video status updates. Jour Edu use: live blogging?

• Burst.it Saw this in the Globe this morning. Another private sharing app. Create a “Bubble” to view everyone’s stuff coming in from one event. Once they add a way to easily make this public I’ll use it for a class project.

Wait! One More Misc.NewsArt* High quality editorial art. Tell your students they get it for free!

From their web site: “J-SCHOOL STUDENTSIf your school wants to participate on our NewsArt Journalism School Program, contact us and we'll set up a password. After that you may use your school's UserID and password to download art at no charge for use in your school work, campus newspapers, etc.”

*Not ONA-Related. I met one of the artists briefly at an editorial writers conference in Orlando where I flew from ONA12 to pick up an award.

New Tool for Journos

Spundge

• Curation, collaboration tool for journalists• Beta launched at ONA.• Still trying to figure out how it works.

Possible use for group projects?

Gannett, Nice use of Tumblr!

ONA12 world, according to Gannett employees. This Tumblr is jam-packed with good stuff.

Top Tech Trends to Gawk at, Discuss

Amy WebbThe news was that she shared the “secret sauce” that they use to forecast The Next Big Thing(s).

However, there was an actual Top Ten list, list, too! Click Amy’s name to see it.

Trend: Predictive Assistance

Amy Webb: Google Now "is going to make Siri look like someone's high school science project.”

Perhaps they’ll beat Apple at mapping, too. Oh, wait…

Trend: Verification

Verify, verify, verify.

Example: Shazam-like app checks who’s behind political advertising.

Ad comes on, hold phone up to listen, get the backstory.

Superpac App: http://www.superpacapp.org/

Claims to offer: “Objective, third-party information.”

Ratings. They show up on a map! Yay!

Wearable Tech

This purse charges your cell phone. Does it come in red? I just got these red shoes…

Crystal Ball Gazing: Future of News?

Storytelling thru virtual reality

ONA Award Winners to Show in Class

Innovative use of data:• The Guardian : “Gay Rights, State by State (and Beyond)”, Explanatory

Reporting, Large Site• Homicide Watch D.C.: Knight Award for Public Service

Comprehensive Project• The Reckoning -- America and the World a Decade After 9/11, The New York

Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/thereckoning

Inspiration for your students:• DePaul University, The Red Line Project — NATO Coverage, The Red Line Project

: News and Online

• Borderzine.com (Mexico / U.S.), Mexodus: Non-English Projects, Small/Medium Site (An ONA Student Newsroom reporter worked on this!)