Hello world,
Welcome to the HofstraJConvergence blog, with the mission of creating an online conversation with the journalism community, and certainly within Hofstra University.
Our profession is undergoing transformational change as information technology advances at a dazzling rate -- at least for those of us who notice those things. For today's college students, who grew up with computers, and are always flipping to their Facebook page, it's just the way it is.
I am a journalist and an educator tasked with responsibly helping college students attain an education and the intellectual tools -- to not only participate in, but to help lead thinking on how we should do and teach journalism in an age of rising social networks, bottoms-up empowerment, instant information and high-speed Internet access. And blogs.
Following this are some sections of suggested readings for a required class in journalism tools. They are my suggestions and I hope will attract comment and suggestions as we consider what resources the students should read as they begin exploring these tools.
Each sector has its own URL and comments section. The penultimate post is all the suggestions in one. The collaborative suggestions will be reposted at the top after the considerations are made.
--mk
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So, I'll get the comments section running.
I wrote yesterday's post in the evening after a day punctuated by a windy squall passing through -- with vigor.
I saw the students and staff at WRHU reporting in real time at this very localized event -- and handling it with haste and aplomb.
Later that night, I saw a practice run for a live television production in our studios. The shvitzing, the agita, the tsouris, all very impressive as the kinks were worked out.
So, from that time to now, this site has had fresh content on it, and has 'lit' up the Internet with about a dozen hits as of 9 p.m., with probably three of them from me in different places.
The other cluster of hits has come from the Hofstra and Long Island area as well as northern New York City. That's expected.
But the last two hits just interest me very much. One hit came from Bloglines, a registration-based service that offers RSS aggregation. So I created an account. Picked some feeds suggested by the service, but didn't find what led to this site.
We got two hits from California. One from ARPartners.com and one from Adobe, one of our vendors. ARPartners links to the website of Silicon Valley-based A&R Edelman, a public-relations firm that lists Adobe as a client.
They must have a blog search set up to trawl for mentions of Adobe, brought up the list of products needed for the JRNL 10 course.
I didn't post anything about the program that I really covet and that's visual communicator, which I want for my JRNL 80 and 215 classes to use.
But, it costs and I grit my teeth at that, believing it shouldn't really cost anything and should be subject to testing by a group of enthusiastic students. [Just thinking out loud if Adobe is listening :-)]
So, this blog has attracted 15 page views, 3 per day, 1.5 per visit. There were 12 visits today for something that was basically birthed yesterday, but technically last April.
This version has a poll at the bottom and I'm hoping it will have comments within soon. Please announce yourself in the comments.
You are welcome.
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