The document discusses the use of social media in journalism education and the news industry. It notes how social media has changed conversations and the media landscape. It provides examples of how social media has been used for investigative journalism and disaster reporting. The document encourages educators to integrate social media in the classroom by having students create and publish content online. Tips are provided for using social media professionally and for new journalists entering the field. The future of journalism is seen as multimedia storytelling and building communities through social media.

1. Brave New Worlds: Social Media in the Classroom and in the Field Original By: Hector Guerra. Remixed under Creative Commons License

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3. Today’s Panel Kemp Edmonds Social Media Educator BCIT Robert Riskin Program Head, Television BCIT Gillian Shaw Technology Journalist Vancouver Sun

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6. What is social media? Sharing Social: refers to the interaction of organisms with other organisms and their collective co-existence. Information Media: are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data. Wikipedia.org

7. Social Media before the Web Storytelling Homeric Poems Oral tradition Urban Legends Rumors & Gossip Proverbs Slang Jokes

9. Old World

10. New World

12. Print, Radio and Television will never die, but they will certainly have to evolve.

13. Media are not just tools They are environments

14. Media mediate our conversations “Media change feels like this” By: Chuckumentary When media changes our conversations change

15. Media has changed theconversationprism.com So have the conversations

16. The New Media Landscape Photo Credit: Hamid Imanesh

17. A voice for the people #iranelection

18. Starting the conversation #Obama

19. Leaping the great firewall Clay Shirky #ChineseEarthquake

20. Role Reversal #hudsonriver

21. Massive Instant Giving In less than 48 hours the American Red Crossreceived more than $35m in donations - $8m directly from text messages. -BBC News #haiti

22. Mumbai War Timeline War first reported on Twitter (21:20) On site photos posted to Flickr (00:45) CNN speaks with poster of photos Phone lines jammed Blog used instead (02:00) Story on front pages of websites (02:30) Wikipedia entry created (03:00) CNN links to Twitter profiles Fox News uses Flickr photos

23. Notes from a journalist: Lisa Johnson @lisasj (CBC) Streamsvs.Reservoir Social media as “Social Scanner” Social media makes my city smaller

24. The Broadcaster’s Job? Social Media can help Investigation Verification Aggregation Gathering Opinions Finding Experts Curation Dissemination Learning

25. Finding more in the stream

26. Communities of Practice http://search.twitter.com

27. The missing link in journalism curricula: Community Engagement - @lavrusik, Columbia Journalism Master’s Graduate.

28. “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” –Marshall McLuhan “We shape our learners and thereafter our learners shape us.” -Christopher D. Sessums

30. When educators ruled the classroom

31. When ruled the lecture hall

32. How can we turn this challenge… into an opportunity?

33. Get on board!

34. Use Social Media in the classroom Encourage student self-expression Teach content creation Emulate the newsroom on Twitter or others Using social media to build a story Collaborative learning using Wikis Embedding & Blog publishing Teach learning from communities of practice Teach students about self-learning Teach digital ethics and creative commons

36. Add “Digital Citizenship” to the Curriculum

37. Keep one eye on Student Conduct, the Other on the Law

38. Teach With Social Mediamashable.com

39. To students from an editor: Kirk Lapointe @kirklapointe Publish your work online Own your domain Become a virtuoso in public Clippings at an interview need digital backup Having no digital footprint is bad Behind the scenes? Publish it! In front of the camera/mic? Publish it! Understand copyright and original content

41. Student on Social Media for Journalism Breaking news Immediate analysis Multiple sourcing Personal and trusted sources Connecting with future employers Connect with heroes and thought leaders Twitter is my information farm

42. 4 Tips for New JournalistsBy: Rick Chung @rickchung Be curious Be aware of these tools Understand the importance of context If you don’t know, you need to know how to find out

43. Using it for Professional Development New techniques Collaborative learning Thought leaders Case studies Communities of practice - BEAC http://search.twitter.com Search On! 9 reasons for educators to use Twitter: http://j.mp/9twitteruses

44. Some takeaways Cloud Storage: http://dropbox.com & others Document Presentation: http://slideshare.net Video: http://youtube.comhttp://vimeo.com Audio: http://archive.org Extra Lessons: Columbia Journalism Social Media Course Syllabus: http://j.mp/socmediaskills Missing Curricula: http://j.mp/journolesson Citizens in Journalism: http://j.mp/mumbai08 Real-time Search: http://j.mp/kempsmartsearch

45. Thanks to the production team! BCIT Broadcast Faculty BCIT Broadcast Students Thanks to the audience! Thanks to Rob & Gillian

46. More ideas… Facebook for learning http://j.mp/100FBEDU 100 educational uses: http://j.mp/SMEDU100ways Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Classroom Educators Embracing Social Technology Twitter in the Classroom is boosting Engagement Educational Networks: http://j.mp/cKBrok Future Journalists: http://j.mp/futurejournos This presentation: http://j.mp/kempbeac

47. THE FUTURE JOURNALIST IS… A Multimedia Storyteller A Community Builder A Trusted Pointer A Blogger and Curator Able to work collaboratively Video: http://j.mp/futurejvid