Medill - photoblogged by Robb’s iPhone
I am at Medill teaching two multimedia reporting seminars for the AAN Writers Workshop. Here I am demonstrating how to photoblog using Flickr and an iPhone in real time.
I passed around my cameras and recorders and favorite Web sites for producing Web graphics reports and fielded some great feedback from the participants. It is so much fun to turn the classroom into a big conversation and live demonstration. I really enjoy having to think fast and take the lead from the delegates questions.
So many great enquiries that will make it into a future post as I teach more seminars about multimedia reporting. It’s been a popular topic this year as I have taught it from Vancouver to Berlin.
It is never the same seminar twice because of the way that the lecture simulates the networked social media experience. The students decide the specific focus based on where they are in the game and what they are eager to know first. Some of it is disorienting to the self-proclaimed “luddites” - so I spend a lot of time going back through the techniques to bring it home.
Who knew it could be so much fun to demonstrate delicious but it is a great tool to help the audience members take notes and see firsthand the power of tagging, RSS and metadata and how at the end of the day, reporting fundamentals still matter.
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