My broadcasting class is known as Fairless Falcon Media. We produce a weekly show known as Friday Highlights which includes funny game shows, interviews, and highlights of our school's accomplishments. Our students watch Friday Highlights weekly during their fifth period classes. I share our show with the teachers by uploading it to GoogleDrive. Our teachers project Friday Highlights from their laptops, and the students seem to like it.
I feel really behind when it comes to social media. Recently, I started uploading my students' shows to YouTube. I have not promoted this channel much because I am no expert. I teach an annually-evolving list of three to four preps of language arts classes. The broadcasting class I teach is an elective class. Most of my students are not pursuing careers in journalism. They just like experimenting with storytelling, filming, and broadcasting.
In order to become a better teacher, I am taking this Teaching Multimedia class. For Week One, I looked at the history of news, studied current trends in digital journalism, became familiar with multimedia journalism, and explored examples of multimedia journalism produced by accomplished storytellers. I would like to further explore a couple of resources that I found most beneficial.
1. Storify allows its users to collect stories from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in a fashion similar to that of Pinterest. Writers can embed their collection into their own story.
2. The Top Tens' "Best Online High School Newspapers" features multimedia approaches used by students across the United States. I don't teach newspaper, but I have often wondered when the newspaper, yearbook, and broadcasting classes taught at my high school might merge. Fresno Christian School's Feather Online is ranked number one. This high school's newspaper switched to an online platform in 2001. The Feather Online links to seven social networks including SoundCloud.
