Languages
Pages
Legal
Trends in New Media
Cindy Royal, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Texas State University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
www.cindyroyal.com
www.onthatnote.com
cindytech.wordpress.com
Courses
Web Design and Publishing - www.cindyroyal.com/webdesign
Multimedia Journalism - www.cindyroyal.com/multij
Issues in New Media - www.cindyroyal.com/newmedia
Advanced Online Media - www.cindyroyal.com/advanced
Social Media in the Classroom
No longer required to know HTML/CSS/Web or Graphic Design/FTP/Domain Registration/Hosting to have a presence on the Web
The Web is the location of user-generated content galore
Lots of free and cheap tools that you can use in the classroom
Easy to implement
Fun for you and students
Can integrate ideas and concepts, while teaching technical skills
Milestones in Multimedia
1997Blackhawk Down
1998Drudge ReportGoogle1999BloggerIndyMedia
2000OhMyNewsAOL/Time Warner merger
2001DotCom Bust9/11 TributesWikipedia launched
2002Google News
2004Jon Stewart on CrossfireRathergatePress Credentials to BloggersWikiNews, Facebook, Digg
2005YouTubeNews Corporation buys MySpace2006
MacacaInvention of the Year - YouTubePerson of the Year - YouGoogle Buys YouTube $1.65B
2003RSSGoogle Buys BloggerMySpace launched
1995Craigslist launchedSlate, Salon, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer online
2007VA TechTwitter tips at SXSWInvention of the Year - iPhoneCNN/ YouTube Debates
Pre-1995Wired Magazine - 1993NY Times on AOL - 1994Nando -1994
1996Washington PostWall Street JournalChicago TribuneLA TimesMSNBC
2008CBS acquires CNETCandidates embrace social mediaEveryBlock.com
Key Terms
• Blog• Web 2.0 • User-generated content• Mobile/Moblogging• Mashup• RSS • Tag/ Tag Cloud• Podcast/Vcast• Wiki• Web-first journalism• Programmer/Journalist• OpenSocial• Widgets
Using RSS Feeds
Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication Set up an RSS reader like iGoogle. Sign in to Google with a Google
account. You can set up the theme, tabs, and specific feeds that you check.
Look for RSS icon in address bar or on page of Web site. When you click on the icon, you choose how you want to subscribe to the feed.
Set up custom RSS feeds on particular topics using Google News Use to keep up with news and trends, resources for current events
quizzes, easy access to news in class Your blogs will have their own RSS feeds; can use to repurpose content
in creative ways Create your own feed for your online content, podcasts, etc. (xml file
with links to your content) - www.wilsonweb.com/wmt8/rss_feeds.htm
Keeping Up
• Google News/Yahoo News - Technology
• NY Times Technology/David Pogue
• Wired News
• Scobleizer
• TechCrunch
• Digg
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang
• Techmeme
• SensibleTalk.com
• Social Media Today
• Mashable
Blogs Blogger - owned by Google
Very easy to get started, use Blogger Mobile Easy to embed media (videos, etc) Variety of design themes, can customize html/css
WordPress
More robust, can make a site with pages (About, Contact, etc.); more like making an entire Web site
Good stats Good comment spam filter Must pay to customize css Challenges with embedding some content Wordpress.org – host installation on your own server
Both free Both offer the ability to use your own domain
My Blogs
cindytech.wordpress.com - personal tech blog royalmulti.blogspot.com - Multimedia
Journalism class, combination of observations and articles.
gradnewmedia.blogspot.com - Graduate Issues in New Media class, observations from readings
sxtsu.blogspot.com - South By Texas State, coverage of SXSW Interactive, photos, video
mc1313sum08.blogspot.com - Writing for the Mass Media Course
www.onthatnote.com - personal music Web site, integrated with blog
YouTube
Purchased by Google for $1.6 billion Oct. 2006 Easy to upload video Accepts a variety of formats Can be embedded into blogs
More Online Tools
Facebook or MySpace – set up groups; post content; stay in touch
del.icio.us - social bookmark manager
Niche Social Networks
Ning - WebPubNET.ning.com LinkedIn
Flickr/Picasa – photo sharing sites
Web Resizer – www.webresizer.com - online tool for optimizing size of photos for the Web
Google Pages – pages.google.com - free, easy way to create a Web site; some limitations
Wikipedia - discuss credibility, have students contribute, wisdom of crowd vs. gatekeepers
Free (or cheap) Software!
SoundSlides – make a photo slideshow
Must be hosted on a Web site
Difficult, but not impossible, to embed on a blog
Soundslides ($39.95) must include audio (you can tweak with a silent file); new Soundslides Plus ($69.95) lets you choose whether or not to have audio
Audacity – free; edit audio, create mp3 files
iMovie (Mac) or Windows MovieMaker (PC) – video editing
SnapZPro (Mac, $69) /Camtasia(PC, $179) – screen capture; use for developing online tutorials
On The Go...
Blogger Mobile – www.blogger.com/mobile-start.g - send photos and text directly from your phone to your blog
Qik.com – stream LIVE video from your phone!
Second Life
Virtual, online world Users set up avatars, create spaces Organizations have purchased islands,
developed resources Potential for teleconferencing, distance
education
Equipment
You don't need expensive equipment Most students have digital cameras or cell
phones that can shoot photos/video Low-end cameras with video Digital audio recorders Camcorders
Web Hosting Domain registration/hosting – lots of options; I've used
doteasy.com; avahost.net, godaddy.com
FTP Tools Fetch (Mac, free) www.fetchsoftworks.com
WS-FTP (PC, free) - www.ipswitch.com
Net2Ftp - www.net2ftp.com - Web-based FTP
FireFTP - fireftp.mozdev.org - Firefox Add-on
HTML Tutorials Barebones Guide to HTML - werbach.com/barebones
W3 Schools - www.w3schools.com/html Beyond the basics there's Flash, Javascript, PHP, audio and
video editing...
Resources
SXSW Interactive - www.sxsw.com/interactive Wired Magazine - www.wired.com Cyberjournalist.net - Great Work Gallery -
www.cyberjournalist.net/category/great-work-gallery Online Journalism Awards - http://www.journalists.org/ Knight Digital Media Center -
www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org Online Journalism Review Archives - ojr.org Interactive Narratives - interactivenarratives.org/ News Videographer Blog - Angela Grant -
newsvideographer.com We The Media by Dan Gillmor Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins The Long Tail by Chris Anderson Editor & Publisher Awards -
royal.reliaserve.com/eppy/winners2008.html Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication -
jcmc.indiana.edu
Final Note
This is not a passing trend, a side item, or a nice extra. It's what we do.
Remember, communication is about technology and technology is about communication.
Don't be overwhelmed. The important thing is you get started, try new things, and have fun.
Who knows what's next?!
Top Related