Advertising and Media Resources
Early this semester a Communication student studying Advertising contacted me about creating a special page just for Communication Advertising and Media Majors. He and several students and instructors created a list of books, websites and periodicals that would help them in their study and research. All of these resources, plus more are now accessible in one place from this new page. The page is now live from the library website at: http://info.lib.uh.edu/libraries/advertising.html
If you would like more resources added to this page, please contact me!
Journalism Blog at University of Houston
Faculty member Michael Berryhill started a new and very useful UH Journalism Blog. I worked with him this semester as he navigated through the blogging world. He ventured into blogging by creating a blog and also requiring his students to create blogs. Students posted writing assignments/stories to their own blogs throughout the semester and ended with an e-portfolio.
This new blog includes interesting posts and links to some of his student’s stories. Read more to find out what our UH students are writing and learning!
Will Goverment Bailout Newspapers?
Listen to this story from NPR’s Morning Edition, titled “Can Washington Help Ailing Newspaper Industry?”
“Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking for ways to shore up the struggling newspaper industry. Bills have been introduced that would allow newspapers to operate as tax-exempt non-profits and loosen anti-trust laws. Senator John Kerry held a hearing recently to come up with answers.”
We should be very interested in what steps Washington and the Industry make, this is a very real and controversial issue! Sounds like a potential interesting opinion piece or student research paper topic!
Enter and Win: Library Learning Commons Media Contest
Students in the School of Communication might be interested in the Library Learning Commons Media Contest (To celebrate the grand opening of the Learning Commons). Students can enter and possibly win an iPod Nano, Shuffle, or Gift Card. See details of the contest at the Library News Blog: http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/blog/2009/04/10/enter-the-learning-commons-media-contest/
The 21st Century Student – YouTube Video
Watch this 5 min video on the 21st Century Connected Student.
Student’s: If you are already on this path, more power to you. Continue to share your knowledge.
Faculty: You have the power to enable students to connect and share the knowledge you teach!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA
RSS and Feed Reader 101 – COMM 3314
Popular Feed Readers to manage news
- Bloglines – www.bloglines.com
- Google Reader – Find through your Google Account
- Podcasts – Subscribe using Itunes
How to find RSS and add to Feed Reader
- Look for RSS Icons:
- Click Icon or add RSS URL to Feed Reader “subscribe box”
Finding New Blogs and News
Use these specialized search engines to find blogs and news stories.
- Technorati – http://technorati.com
- Google Blog Search – http://blogsearch.google.com/
- Digg – http://digg.com/
- LexisNexis Academic (Library Access)
- Newspaper Source (Library Access)
- Christina’s Communication Page – http://info.lib.uh.edu/libraries/communications.html
- Christina’s Communication Blog – http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/communications/
Share Social Bookmarking
Save WebPages and links to a bookmarking website that you can access wherever you go, see what others are tagging, see the most popular sites.
- Delicious – http://delicious.com
- Digg – http://digg.com
- Facebook … and more
Attn Bloggers! Wordpress Plugins and Tools…
Especially all those bloggers using Wordpress from Comm 4310 and 4314
Check out this good article on adding Wordpress Plugins and Tools. Learn new plugins and tools and enhance your blog!
http://www.thedailyanchor.com/2009/03/23/31-wordpress-plugins-to-enhance-your-blog-and-life/
Do you care if print papers die?
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, few Americans say they would miss their local newspaper if it were no longer available in print. Shocked? What do you think?
See the full story at…
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1147/newspapers-struggle-public-not-concerned
ATTN: COMM 4361 – Demographic Help
Hey Friends. I wanted to let you know about a few helpful demographic surveys of US Colleges:
For overall demographics of degree granting colleges in the U.S., visit the Department of Education’s Quick Facts about post-secondary schools:
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
***Also, The Princeton Review Ranking the “Top Party Schools of 2009.” You might want to investigate the demographics of these particular schools! The list is (drumroll…)
- Univ of Florida
- Univ of Mississippi
- Penn State
- West Virginia Univ.
- Ohio Univ
- Randolph – Macon
- Univ of Georgia
- Univ of Texas-Austin
- Univ of California – Santa Barbara
- Florida State Univ
- And the list goes to 20….(let me know if you want more info).
There are also lists with similar stats related to your projects, let me know if you need more info!
COMM 4310 & 4314 (Berryhill)
For all those students in 4314, I hope you learned some helpful resources yesterday. Don’t forget the first thing you will want to do is start your FeedReader account. We talked about Bloglines and Google Reader. If you have questions contact me.
I look forward to sharing the same information with 4310 today! Here is the handout for the classes…
RSS/Feed Readers
RSS is a technology that automatically sends you new information. Add RSS links to Feedreaders which automatically update to provide you with new posts, news, podcasts, etc.
- Bloglines – www.bloglines.com
- Google Reader
- Podcasts
Social Bookmarking
Save WebPages and links to a bookmarking website that you can access wherever you go, see what others are tagging, see the most popular sites.
- Delicious – http://delicious.com
- FURL – www.furl.net
Finding New Blogs and or News
Use these specialized search engines to find blogs and news stories.
- Technorati – http://technorati.com
- Google Blog Search – http://blogsearch.google.com/
- Digg – http://digg.com/
- Digg is a great tool to discover new sites and news stories. Stories are submitted and ranked according to reader “diggs” i.e. votes.
Things to Use in Your Blog
- Tags/Categories (Tag Cloud ex: http://technorati.com/tag)
- Pictures – Flickr, Picasso
- Tables, Graphs, etc (The Pew Research Center is helpful – http://pewresearch.org)
Other Recommended Sources (From the library of course)
- New York Times (both current and historical)
- Wall Street Journal
- Harpers
- LexisNexis (Library Access)
- Newspaper Source (Library Access)
- Library Communication Page – http://info.lib.uh.edu/libraries/communications.html
- Christina’s Communication Blog – http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/communications/
