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Real-time College Journalism Classroom Research Project on Google Wave

I met with a trusted friend last week who works on the front lines of the convergence of mainstream media and emerging digital media for a New York-based network news outfit.

As always, I wanted to learn from him to take back to my online journalism classes. I was asking him about new applications and we got onto Google Wave. “Are you using it in class?” he asked. “Um, no,” I said. “It’s just too new.”

Wave was released in late September. I use a lot of cutting-edge tools in my classroom but I usally don’t roll something out and release it to the students until I have played with it, experimented with it and gained some expertise in it. I just received my Wave invite a couple of weeks ago from the kindness of a former student and had opened it up once and that was it.

Then, on Monday, in class, one of my students asked me about Wave.

That did it, it was time to explore.  I use Google spreadsheets in class for collaborative projects and for group note taking. Students can instantly add links and see their work progress on the projector.

I set up a new page and asked the students to take five minutes to do some searches about Wave.

Predictably, they all went to the main Google page and the results they shared were pedestrian — of good general value but not terribly insightful.

We adjusted the search strategy by looking on Google News, Google images and on Twitter. I was disappointed that Twitter search has not become their first option, or, at least, their second. After this exercise, I feel it will. Real-time search is so incredibly valuable because of the crowd-filtering factor and the immediacy.

The next set of sites they shared were more useful and I asked the students to then write a slug about the particular post they had selected. Many used boilerplate descriptions and I asked them to try again, this time being conversational and sharing informally and the results were more interesting.

The last thing I asked them in this exercise was to then look for articles pertaining to journalism and Google’s Wave product.

Following are the links they discovered in this project that took approximately 20 minutes to complete:

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Nov 30
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For every kid that I bump into who is wandering the media industry looking for an entrance that closed some time ago, I come across another who is a bundle of ideas, energy and technological mastery. The next wave is not just knocking on doors, but seeking to knock them down.
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* data entry
* link checking, page editing, clean-up
* uploading information about places of interest - from coffeehouses to parks to hardware stores to librarries
* entering information about events for our community calendar
* attending meetings and reporting on them
* contributing photos or video of events, large and small
* editing photos and video and uploading
* reporting on what your organization is doing
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Nov 29
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Jadu Blog Yet another social media / media flow diagram

Jadu Blog Yet another social media / media flow diagram

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Producers are expected to, among other things, update and maintain editorial content; assist in developing and producing monthly feature packages and tools; create new content for the website, including live streams of breaking news events and updating existing content; work with web publishing systems; and gather, write and edit news stories for text, photographic and video presentation. Producers are also expected to stay abreast of breaking news and help mobilize coverage where necessary; seek to enhance online pages with photographs, multimedia and other tools; and think creatively about element highlights.
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