February, 2009

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Class postponed due to Dr. Bang's meeting with students

Assignment Due Date: 
02/24/2009 10:00

Today's class is postponed so that students may attend Dr. Bang's open meeting with students at 4 pm in Great Hall. I strongly recommend everyone attend this meeting, as it concerns changes at KIMEP that may affect your future studies.

We will meet on Thursday to begin our photography component. If you have a digital camera, please bring it to class on Thursday. Please read the article linked above, "Learn how to shoot decent photos," and investigate the material linked from that article prior to class.  read more »

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In class: starting your online beat with Google Reader

Assignment Due Date: 
02/24/2009 05:30

To prepare for today's class, I asked everyone to set up a Google Reader account. Please open your account now. Today we will begin the process of creating your "online beat."

To do this we will:

  • Learn a few ways to subscribe feeds
  • Learn to organize feeds
  • Learn to make feeds public
  • Search for feeds on topics that interest you
  • Locate, subscribe, organize, and make public your feeds

By the end of class, please post a link to your public feeds as a comment on this post.

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my part of work

I would prefer two topics entertainment and psychology. I think for people would interesting to read what is new in night clubs and what they can to find in the theaters.

Talking about psychology i think very useful to tell them, how be prepared to spring, what to do in order to find better job. And many such things. i really like psychology. I can find different interesting tests. post relevant photo. people and especially students should be strong and therefore i think it's important issue.

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Readings on blogs and RSS

Assignment Due Date: 
02/24/2009 05:29

Before class on Tuesday, please read the linked articles (Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (part one) and the Guide to RSS) and create a gmail account. We will work with Gmail Reader in class on Tuesday.

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my part of work

I would prefer two topics entertainment and psychology. I think for people would interesting to read what is new in night clubs and what they can to find in the theaters.

Talking about psychology i think very useful to tell them, how be prepared to spring, what to do in order to find better job. And many such things. i really like psychology. I can find different interesting tests. post relevant photo. people and especially students should be strong and therefore i think it's important issue.

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What is journalism?

Assignment Due Date: 
02/17/2009 05:30

To begin our discussion of participatory journalism, please take 10 minutes at the beginning of class to write a brief entry (about two paragraphs) answering the question, "What is journalism?" In your response, you might consider things such as: why (or whether) journalism is important; how we rely on journalism (or not); who is a journalist, and why, and so on.

Submit your entry on your Wordpress weblog, and leave a link to your entry as a comment on this entry. (If you do not finish your entry in class, be sure to go back and finish it later.)

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Participatory Journalism

Some important ideas from our "We Media" reading assignment:  read more »

  • Gatekeeper function of news media: When relatively few people have strong influence over what appears in media, it can provoke a concern that, as "gatekeepers" of information, they have too much social power.
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Newsgathering with blogs and RSS

Assignment Due Date: 
02/12/2009 10:08

Please read the articles above and set up a Google Reader account.

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Reading: "We Media" chapters one and two

Assignment Due Date: 
02/17/2009 05:30

For next week, please read chapters one ("Introduction to Participatory Journalism") and two ("Cultural Context: behind the explosion of participatory media")of "We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information," available at the links above.

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Site Proposal

I’ve been doing a research on PR education recently and I have noticed that many students and PR practitioners seem to have problems in understanding the meaning of PR, or in doing such simple staff as writing press releases. All these problems tend to be a result of lack of connection between universities and PR-market. Why do we not create a site which would help PR-professionals to if not solve then at least discuss the problems collectively.  read more »

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Online Journalism project site

Assignment Due Date: 
02/10/2009 10:00

Last week we brainstormed ideas for our project site and began (I think) to get a sense of how some of our projects might work together.

Today in class we will create links for the OLJ project site and get a quick introduction to the basics of Drupal.

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Weblog review assignment

Assignment Due Date: 
02/12/2009 05:00

In class today we looked at a few weblogs, examining their characteristics, content, and so forth. We also looked at a couple of tools (Wordpress.com and Google Blog Search) that can be used to search for weblogs.

Before class Thursday, please complete the following assignment:  read more »

  1. Locate a weblog that is interesting to you. It doesn't matter what the topic is. It can be newsy, humorous, personal, or something else. The important things are that it is a weblog, and that you think the weblog is interesting.
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The love tree for my boyfriend!

Hello everybody!
How are you?
Could you please visit this page:

http://valentine.magiclands.ru/lovetree/7004110975

It's a love tree for my boyfriend. Thank you very much!)

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life is theater...

I think we should create site, which will inform people about entertainment things. I want to pay attention to theaters and plays, which will be shown there.
On the first page will be list of the Theaters. Choosing one of it person will go on the theater's page. There he can find content, list of plays, info about actors, contacts.  read more »

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Proposal of web site

There are so many different sites in internet. Entertainment and searching sites, different kinds

So i was thinking how about to unit entertainment like music site with mail box. could be very interesting.

There also would be possible to create your own profile with your picture. and you could share your music prefernces with friends and not only friends.

the site would be in colours you want. there would be option to change colour of a site.
people would be able to create own favorite music groups.

And would be possible to manage to create your own music as well.  read more »

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Web site proposal

There are so many different kinds of interesting sites in internet. Entertainment, searching sites, different kinds.

And i was thinking how about to unit your mail box with music entertainment box and to add there page where you can create ytour profile with your photo...
It might be intersting for those who like music  read more »

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My Proposal

I always wondered if there any interesting HOW-TO sites, where you can learn to make something on your own, or just watch or get to know how it is made. If you go to youtube, you’d easily find plenty of HOW-TO’s. Moreover, there are so many how-to’s on various sites. What I want is to consolidate the best how-to’s into one blog-like resource.
Target audience is really undefined, as many people look for how-to’s for different reasons and interests. That’s why, this site can become something wide for everybody who surfs Internet.  read more »

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What will be after 20 years?

of course we don't know. But we can predict. I mean we creating our future an only we rule

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Hello World!!!!

Hi again! My name is Botagoz.

I am very glad to be a journalist student in KIMEP!
I am third year student.

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Preliminary site proposal

Of course the site should be informative, interesting and entertaining. It is oriented for students who could find there useful information which would be helpful and joyful in their student life. may be there will be news about KIMEP and other universities as well. And it would be excellent if there will be network and blog. Where everybody can communicate with each other, share some news and find new friends and it wouldn’t be restricted in KIMEP . May be also it would be some communities where students share with interests and so on. I want the site to provide communication.  read more »

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preliminary proposal for a website

I finally made a decision and picked up an issue about one of my favorite entrainments – photography. After long thoughts of making my site pretty interesting and cognitive, the solution was to create a “photojournalism” blog. It will consist not only the modern days photography, but also some historical events, news, people and so on.  read more »

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proposal by Yevgeniy and Elina

Elina (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) and me, Yevgeniy, came up with another proposal this morning. This is a place for home gardeners or people who take care of their plants at home - HomePlantDepot.com

The site will allow users to create personal page to their favorite plant. The page might include blog, photo gallery and also will enable user to set a web-cam aimed to his plant and broadcast live picture of it 24/7.

Elina proposed an example of hemp page with tutorials in the blog and live picture of small plant in the pot on the author's window. :)

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Your Guide into America's Communications Graduate Schools

Spring 2009 is my last school term. And as far as I am concerned almost everybody in class is graduating soon. Most people want a master's degree right after their undergraduate program. From my experience, it is pretty hard to find your graduate school. At least it was not easy for me and I am still searching for it.  read more »

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Proposal

I think we can create site which will be useful for young people. Site could be both for entertainment and study.
Purpose of the site: Entertainment and study
Target audience: youth and students, especially KIMEP
The site should be simple, without any technological dificulties: just clicking once to use the site's offers.
The site mission is to communicate people and provide information.  read more »

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Site Proposal

The site that I would like to create should be informative and entertaining at the same time.

It should be young people orientied. The age of target audience should be from 18 to 25. Mostly it is students who have a wide circle of interests.

The visitors who will come to our site can find information that can be useful for home assignments preparing. How to write essay, Russian language lessons, etc.  read more »

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