3/31/14
In Class:
Warm-up-- Tell the story of a significant even that has occurred in your life in the past six months. Use as much detail and explanation as you can. How has this event influenced other parts of your life?
Each student set up a binder with four sections: Warm-ups, Notes & In-Class Activities, Assignments, and Handouts & Readings.
Introductory Lecture: What is Journalism?
* Using a technique known as crowdsourcing, our class generated a definition of journalism as it applies to our modern age.
journalism: a field responsible for investigating & reporting accurate & relevant information to the public.
* Journalism is essential to our society because it helps people communicate, keeps powers like government and business in check, and creates a common understanding of our society.
* What media can be utilized for journalism?
medium (pl. media): an analog or digital avenue for communicating information.
As a rapidly evolving field, journalism increasingly uses more and more different media, including technological media.
- newspaper - TV - radio - Internet news sites - Podcasts - Blogs
- Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - Compilation news (e.g., Huffington Post)
Today's focus: Microblogging
microblogging: a broadcast medium utilizing ultra-brief posts (microposts) to convey or document information. (The most common form of microblogging is known as Twitter.)
* Microblogging can be oriented as informational, thematic, or commercial.
* Key terms: post [tweet], repost [retweet], reply, hashtag, handle, mention, follow.
* Introduced ongoing Microblogging Assignment.
Reviewed syllabus and class expectations.
Exit ticket: Complete the following statement--"If I do one thing to be successful this block, it will be..."
Homework:
Complete last page of syllabus by Wednesday.
Read "Online News is Still News" and complete corresponding guided notes by Monday.
Write three or more tweets by Monday.
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