week 6 - TH - social media and politics, cont’d
Agenda
- Guest Speaker: Jody Brannon, former online editor, USA Today, now senior editor, MSN.com
- Student Reading
- Politics & social media
- Discussion re “ah-ha’s” and the rest of our time together
- Pundits
Jody
- MSN.com
- MSNBC.com
- Yahoo.com
- SilverLight (NBC video player for the Olympics)
- The Daily Dish - Andrew Sullivan
- NC Barracks story - McClatchy
Student Reading - Whitney
Rosen, J. (2007, Nov. 14). These Beat Reporters Will Try The Social Network Way. PressThink
Also, see beatblogging.org
Politics & Social Media
Newsvine - 1, 2, 3, 4
Facebook 1, 2
MySpace - 1, 2, 3
YouTube - 1, 2, 3
Discussion: VoteAbsentee.us
- Feedback on template - have we captured everything you’d need to know to vote absentee? What about having a separate line for military and/or ex-pats?
- Check out the profiles that I highlighted as models. Does everyone remember how to make a word a link?
- Assignment: one more state by Tuesday
Peer Interaction
Per last week, one more comment (for a total of two)
(1 - Kendra) Respondents: KC, Lorin, Sammi, WhitneyB
(2 - Faith) Respondents: Khair, NicoleB, Sara, Jason
(3 - Whitney B) Respondents: Faith, Jessica, Kendra, NicoleC, WhitneyC
Ahs and the rest of the quarter
To help me prioritize — and because someone else’s “question” might be something you haven’t thought about — vote for two (not your own!).
Please use the comments field like this: Blogging Practicalities - 2 and Other - 3. You can give both of your votes to one question if it’s REALLY important to you!
A few of these lend themselves to tutorials (how to insert an image, how to incorporate multimedia like YouTube). I will be creating these, regardless of the voting!
