Saturday, April 3, 2010

How amateur reporters can change the world via social media


                                                         Television production students edit videos for in-house and the web

Video click here

Questions to ponder:
1. What were the four most important innovations for communication before the web?
2.  How has the communication pattern changed/
3.  What happened with China and news of that country's earthquake?
4.  What was important about Barack Obama's use of the internet and how was it different than China's use?

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School
Silver Spring, Md

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Great story on the Mumbai attack wins National Award for Magazine Reporting

Backpack journalist audio interview - award winner
Thirty minute interview with the reporter that is worth the listen.  He likes controlling and shaping the whole package.  Again, you guys are fortunate that the filters that would prevent you from reporting are gone . . . the internet is open to analysis, creativity, hustling the story on your own, and digging for facts.  He talks about that process.  Listen.

Ms. Greer
John F. Kennedy High School
Silver Spring, Md