BEA 2015, 2

Continuing on the 10:30 mentoring session, Adam Kuban is talking about a specific mentoring program they do at Ball State University. They use a Mentoring Partnership Agreement. He also noted the challenge of keeping up with research expectations, teaching and service while also serving as a mentor. Then, at a 12:00 session, the International Division and Documentary Division sponsored session, speakers talked about doing international documentaries. Marie Elliott, Valdosta, took students to Dublin, David Smeltzer, Kent State, took students to Costa Rica, and Kyle Hufford, Goshen took students to Kenya -- they partnered with Foods Resource Bank and suggested sponsoring with something like this can be very useful. He also suggested taking a manifest, and talked about being detained two hours at the airport about not having a permit for the equipment and had to pay kind of a bribe to get it cleared. What did students get out of the trip? Not really the filmmaking--more about learning the culture.

BEA 2015

So, this blog was, I think, a great idea when I started it. Then it became hard to keep up with, and I let it slide. Now, I shall try to pick it up again. I will note that I don't do this necessarily to attract users, so comments are moderated--but if you find this and really want to engage in a conversation, feel free to make a comment and I'll try to check for and clear it to be posted. This is for BEA 2015. I've been attending BEA for many years and now serve as the District 5 rep on the Board of Directors. Kicking off the day yesterday was an all-afternoon Board business meeting. Now, Sunday morning I started with the Production Aesthetics and Criticism Division business meeting and am now at a session about Mentoring Students. My former colleague, and mentor, at Sam Houston State University, Maria Williams-Hawkins, Ball State, spoke first and talked about a variety of issues in rcognizing students' needs and offered suggestions regarding race, ethnicity, gender and even life events. She suggested starting to mentor early...include K-12 students in university activities. She ended with: "When the mentor is ready, the mentee will appear." Candace Walton, Bellevue, talked about retaining students through mentoring. She noted the challenge of students who just don't want to turn in their work on time.

Convergence and Society 2010

Well, I've been lacking in keeping up blogs from conferences recently. Right now I'm at the Convgence and Society Conference at the University of South Carolina. This is the ninth one, and I've been to all. Already some good new information from presenters about use of digital media. Current speaker, Feili Tu, has info about using Second Life to create a virtual library.

And ... When I've done this in recent years I've used a laptop...this is my first blog from an iPad.

The keynote speaker Monday night was Elizabeth Cohen of CNN, talking about medical reporting and new work activities as part of the digital media world.

Tuesday...Bill Densmore .. About Reynolds Journalism Institute ...Newshare.com/converge has his PowerPoint
Paying for content issues ... We need a trust authority for information on the web ... Is this an idea like a university having a contract with publishers and 'members' log in and are recognized, and use for 'free' 
The idea is to have some kind of Information Valet ... A shared user network
See similar examples, like Visa credit card story
Then...
Augie Grant ... Problem of Google getting 10% of all advertising revenue ... They don't pay for content, and don't share revenue with content creators. Threre needs to be some kind of model for making money with news content. A Creative Alternative "copyright trolls" ... Finding copyright violations and suing people as a source of revenue. But, there can be realistic ways news organizations can find new ways to sell their content.

Telcos have been masters of 'micropayments'

National Broadcasting Society convention

Well, a week late but here are some thoughts about the national NBS convention in Dallas. (coming soon)

Consumer Electronic Show 3

Well, I've spent two days at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. What seem to be the hot areas? 3D TV for one. Some TV set manufacturers are marketing ones that combine special glasses with shows that have been created as 3D material; Samsung has a TV that has a setting that takes regular 2D content and 'converts' it, the the user using special glasses and sees a 3D-like image. That was pretty cool. Zigbee seems to be hanging in there. I didn't see any Wi-Max booth area so far--Clear.com had a pretty useful booth last year and are busy rolling out Wi-Max markets rights now, including Las Vegas. Another cool item was a completely wireless TV receiver--yes, even the electrical current is sent through the air. Imagine that.

AEJMC Winter Planning

Well, it's the first weekend of December, so once again that means the AEJMC Winter Meeting to plan for the August 2010 conference in Denver. More details forthcoming.

NBS Region 4, 2009 Conference in Austin

I'm a little late in posting this, but there's still plenty that needs to be noted, so I'll post this initial comment first, and add more soon.

Convergence & Society: The Changing Media Landscape

We're underway for 2009 at the University of Nevada-Reno...

My presentation was "Digital Media, HD Radio and Local Market Broadcasting." The study investigates the interrelationship between so-called Wi-Fi Radio, satellite radio, and digital media players as they impact local market radio stations, including assessment of practicalities and limitations of HD Radio to local stations’ image, programming and digital channel monetization. The primary goal of this descriptive study is to assess the current and future viability of local market terrestrial radio within the context of this new competition. HD Radio is the In Band On Channel (IBOC) approach to local market digital radio broadcasting developed and marketed by IBiquity (www.iBiquity.com) and a technology being discussed as allowing local broadcasters to remain competitive as new technologies erode their audience. HD refers to ‘hybrid digital,’ although it is often called ‘high definition.’


One of the session on Thursday included Andrea Guzman presenting Virtual News: Newspapers in Second Life. As part of her master’s thesis at Northern Illinois University, she looked at newspapers that existed within Second Life. It seems while people are ‘living’ within Second Life, they read the newspaper. If ‘circulation’ figures are accurate, those in Second Life more than people in real life. Serena Carpenter of Arizona State presented “An examination of news quality and the extent to which U.S. online newspapers and online citizen journalism publications achieve it,” and noted that the way users judge quality and professionalism is based on design.

It's 3 pm local time in Reno, Nevada --and, wow, Nancy Beth Jackson at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi is doing a slide show presentation over Wimba, originating from the Middle East and it works pretty well! This is ‘digital media’ at its best. Next, Brad Freeman is on a video feed to do his presentation via Wimba – his presentation is coming from Singapore—again, another great use of the technology. Here's a tip: turn off auto-update on your computer before doing this--we just got an offer to update some software.

Here's Augie Grant of the University of South Carolina with just a bit of his presentation at this session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Ly5eJPAbU

Doug Fisher is also blogging about this conference... http://commonsensej.blogspot.com/

Disney / IRTS Impact Seminar

IRTS (www.irts.org) co-sponsors this event each August at Disney. I went to one of the older IRTS seminars in New York several years ago. I'll add more soon...