Who am I?

Who am I?

Mo KrochmalAssistant Professor ofJournalism, Media Studies, and Public RelationsSchool of CommunicationHofstra University@krochmal

My Background

• Journalist since 1975, using new media as my primary channel since 1994, focus on social media since 2007, and mobile adapter since 2008.

Archive

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• Believe mobile will become a primary global access point for the Internet within the next 5 years

• Live – now – is critical and video will become much more user-friendly

Changing Market

• Journalists must use these tools, which is rapidly becoming the market standard.

Savior Pad

• Apps and new devices are seen as saviors for the print-based industry.

Creation

Consumption

From camera to screen

• How I roll• My mobile toolkit• ATT account.

Phone (Nokia N97 with Symbian OS, two cameras, 32GB additional storage, GPS), extra battery

My kit

iPod Touch (WiFi)

• iPod Touch (music), notes.8GB Cruzer

Pockets

• Changed the way I dressed as I like the Touch in my shirt pocket, and the phone in my front pocket with everything else.

• Pencil case iPod charger with batteries, cord!Extra memory for still cameraEye-Fi card for WiFi upload

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• MacBook or Acer laptop

Mobile client: Snaptu for Symbian OSPhoto client: TwitPic

Mobile Video Client

Plus and Minus

• Qik.com – live stream video, archived, shared across networks, statistics

• Minuses -- Software downloads, restore, boot-up time, battery drain.

• YouTube.com – Live streams are loaded to channel for archiving and sharing. Statistics are helpful.

Facebook

• Facebook – I have a business page, or “fan” page, focused on social media and I create and share content on that channel different than on my personal and public Facebook page.

• Google Maps

• Foursquare.com

Still in R&D

• To test: Check.in and Gowalla. Already on

Brightkite and possibly others.

Why do I do this?

• I covered technology in the the days before and after the dot-com boom.

• There are many journalists leaving the industry and heading to academia, but few have teaching skills and can understand and integrate the torrent of new technology into the classroom.

• I use the technology so that I can teach it.

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• There is no textbook that can keep up with the rate of change and apply it thoughtfully and rationally to the classroom. I test everything before I bring it into the classroom.

• I don’t really worry about the technology but I am always concerned about getting into a technology-driven state.

• It’s not about the tech, but about the journalism.

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• I feel that I am the perfect guinea pig. You may think I’m pretty techno savvy but I’m really not.

Fake it ‘till you Make it

• I’ve been faking it since 1995. And, it’s possible to do, by being patient, willing to make mistakes and share what you do.

Mobile

• I’ve made mobile an integral part of my classroom by bringing the tool into my class early and making it natural for the students to use.

Growth of Mobile

So many choices in Technology

Start with a Survey of 51 students• Some form of Blackberry was the most popular smart phone with 12 students

listing some form of that device, followed by 5 students each listing the iPhone or 1 Android owner.

• Over half of students use Verizon as their mobile service provider followed by AT&T (25 percent). A total of 7 students use T-Mobile and 4 use Sprint services.

• A total of 23 students said they enjoyed unlimited text and data services, while 17 said they had unlimited text and 10 had text services.

• All the students’ phones are capable of taking still photographs while 78 percent can take video and 43 percent have GPS services. Some 19 students (37 percent) said their phones could take still and videos as well as access the Internet and GPS services. A total of 15 students said their phones were incapable of accessing the Internet.

• Turning from mobile connectivity to portable devices, the students averaged just over two gadgets each – including 30 point-and-shoot cameras, 8 digital SLRs, 19 video cameras, 24 iPods and 11 touch devices, 13 voice recorders and one Zune. Five students said they owned a Flip camcorder.

Add a Platform

• Tumblr platform – a free microblog service with great visual properties and lots of extras

Dashboards

• http://www.netvibes.com/#JRNL80

Collaboration Across Distance

• Twitpic

• Spring 2010– http://campusproject.tumblr.com/page/2#about

Start Simple, Get Better

• Fall 2009– http://journalismtools.tumblr.com/post/30341134

8/jrnl-10-fall-2009-mobile-reports-follow

Reports

• http://JRNL10.Ning.com

A Student Reports With it!• http://nicolekrichard.tumb

lr.com/post/500018595/a-quick-video-shot-of-people-waiting-in-a-parking

With Text, and Photos

Challenges

• Cost of the hardware and network access• Boundaries of personal/work professional• Institutional Policies• Students Built-in Prejudices

• How to use games• Technology creation (apps, Macs)• Production interfaces are slow.