I haven’t spent this much time talking to journalism professors and students since I graduated from Texas Christian University (let’s just say some time ago).

I visited TCU last week to present seminars on the Complete Community Connection and journalism ethics in the digital age. And since I was sticking around for some memory-lane time, the curriculum committee at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism asked me to meet with them and tell them what I think journalism schools should be teaching about our swiftly changing field.

I shared my views with them and will share them with you here shortly. The TCU meetings continued a heavy fall schedule of consultations with journalism faculty and students on a variety of related topics:

• In late August, I was a panelist for the Accreditation Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, sharing my views on how journalism schools should be teaching today and what sort of standards the council should require. Afterward, I shared some resources for journalism educators on this blog.
• In mid-September, I met with University of Missouri faculty to advise on plans for digital-only coverage of the Associated Press Managing Editors convention in St. Louis.
• Later in September, I presented an ethics seminar at the University of Kentucky. The visit included an informal discussion over pizza with students about what editors are seeking in interns and journalism graduates. I developed a post of career advice for journalism students and called their attention to an earlier post on the importance of your digital profile.
• The next week, I met with faculty advisers and editors of the Iowa State Daily, who came to Cedar Rapids to brainstorm issues such as digital coverage, C3 and organizational changes we’ve made at Gazette Communications.
• In November, I led another ethics seminar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and critiqued the senior portfolios of three UNL seniors (part of the UNL accreditation process, as well as providing advice to the seniors).
• Before visiting TCU, I returned to the University of Missouri for an American Society of News Editors/Reynolds Journalism Institute Ethics and Values Forum. Participants included journalism faculty from four other universities, in addition to Missouri. After dinner one night, we had an interesting discussion with several Missouri students, many of whom are already looking for jobs.
• I have had frequent discussions with David Perlmutter, new director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, including plans to team-teach a course with Jim Cremer on creating an iPhone application.

In various ways in formal events and private conversations, similar concerns about how to teach journalism today came up again and again. If I could summarize the concerns (admitting that I am drawing conclusions that weren’t always stated explicitly), I would say this: Lots of journalism educators worry how they can and should teach to prepare students for a world that has changed vastly since professors practiced and/or earned graduate degrees and is changing so swiftly that even if professors were current in all respects, their lessons may be outdated by the time their students graduate. While journalism school enrollment is stronger than the businesses that support journalism, educators are keenly aware that they need to update their curriculum and knowledge or they could face the same sort of crash that news media companies are experiencing.

My response focuses heavily on what journalism schools should be doing to address new needs and challenges. I have not looked at closely at what they should not be doing. But I would suggest that in the current environment, every requirement and every course needs to be re-examined and face demanding questions:

• Does the course need to be updated?
• Should the course be dropped?
• Should the course be taught less frequently?
• Should the course be combined with another?
• Should a required course become an elective?

Journalism schools also need to examine their tracks, sequences and structures. If your school offers a “print sequence,” you might as well call it an “outdated sequence.” While newspapers still command large audiences and generate large revenues, newspaper companies are diversifying and journalism schools need to be educating multi-platform journalists, not print journalists.

As I go through topics that journalism schools might not be covering adequately, I would argue that many of these issues don’t need to be addressed in a standalone class, required or elective. Rather, they should be integrated throughout the curriculum. For instance, if you offer an elective course in Twitter but don’t teach students in your basic reporting course how reporters should use Twitter, you aren’t teaching what you need to teach. I would advise requiring students in their first media writing course to spend at least a couple weeks taking their class notes in Twitter, so they get an early practical exposure and see it as a tool for journalism from the start. And each course should decide the appropriate way to use Twitter in that course.

In other cases, a required or elective course – or perhaps a course combining a few of these topics – might be exactly what a journalism curriculum needs. I will make specific recommendations about how digital skills should be infused throughout the curriculum and about specific courses a journalism school should consider. But as curriculum committees and J-school leaders consider these issues, they will need to consider other factors. As j-schools weigh such factors as course loads, total hours students can take and so on, I would usually err on the side of incorporating digital skills throughout the curriculum, rather than addressing them in specific courses.

These are the topics I think journalism schools need to address:

Social media. Journalism schools today need to educate students about how social media are changing professional media and society. Twitter is the social platform that needs the most attention right now, but professors need to stay abreast of how society and journalists are using social tools and update their courses appropriately. If Twitter goes the way of MySpace, you need to adjust swiftly to address the next hot social tool. Students are already active in using Facebook, so Facebook is less urgent. Professors also should consider how to use Facebook in courses, such as using a fan page for assignments and exchanges about a course. My primary recommendation here is that social media need to be incorporated throughout the curriculum: Twitter in media writing, reporting, ethics, specialized reporting courses, appropriate strategic communication courses, etc.; visual journalism courses should cover such social tools as YouTube, Flickr, Twitpic and Qik. Ethics courses certainly need to incorporate social media, including Facebook. I also would recommend an advanced course on social media strategy. This would focus on how media organizations need to use social tools to engage the community and serve business customers. This course also would cover potential uses of emerging social tools. This should be an advanced or graduate-level course, serving journalism and strategic communication sequences.

Interactive databases and computer-assisted reporting. I have been critical before of the use of the term computer-assisted reporting. You might as well refer to notebook-assisted reporting or telephone-assisted reporting. This is 2009 and computers have been an essential tool for reporters for a couple decades now. Journalism schools should take the lead in breaking down the data ghettos that have emerged in our profession. Basic reporting courses should cover use of basic spreadsheet, database and mapping programs. These are essential journalism tools and skills and their use should start in basic courses and be required throughout the curriculum. An advanced course should cover development of interactive databases using such tools as Caspio, Django and Ruby on Rails. Again, these skills are as valuable to strategic communication students as to journalism majors.

Programming. As I mentioned to the TCU curriculum committee, I encourage working with a computer science department to develop cross-disciplinary courses such as my iPhone app course at Iowa. I also encourage working with the computer science department to develop double-major or major-minor combos to help “hacker journalists” get the appropriate education in journalism and programming. (I’m delighted that two students in the iPhone class will be double majors in journalism and informatics.

Mobile journalism. Basic reporting courses should introduce students to the multitasking skills and demands of mobile journalism. The University of Missouri is requiring journalism students to buy iPhones. I don’t know how important it is to specify a brand (I do use an iPhone), but I think requiring students to use smart phones as journalism tools is an excellent idea. If I were teaching a reporting or multimedia course now, I would require that some specific assignments be carried out entirely with a mobile device. This would require writing on the phone, shooting still photos and video and providing geocoding metadata. An advanced course(s) could focus specifically on mobile journalism, such as developing mobile applications or a mobile-first strategy.

The business of journalism. Journalism students need a more thorough introduction to the business of journalism than I received as a student (almost none) or than students receive today. They need to learn about traditional business models for print and broadcast. They should understand the disruption that is causing the collapse of the business models. They should understand why and how some organizations are seeking to try paid-content digital models (and they should understand how paid content has been tried before and that it hasn’t worked). They should examine and understand efforts to develop new business models (such as my own Complete Community Connection model). They should learn about product development and entrepreneurial journalism. They should understand how the advertising model is collapsing on all platforms and study efforts to develop new revenue streams. Tim McGuire’s Business and Future of Journalism course at Arizona State University provides a good model. While some coverage of business models would be good in lower-level courses, an upper-level course is a good idea and I would encourage requiring it for all students or for some particular majors. The lack of business literacy is a huge problem among journalists and tunnel vision on business issues is a huge problem for people in advertising and executive offices.

Community engagement. Interaction is a significant part of the future of journalism, from crowdsourcing of stories (investigative, events, features, reviews) to engaging comments on blogs to aggregating the work of community bloggers and citizen journalists. This could certainly be a full course.

Digital content in specialized courses. A question raised in an email about TCU’s curriculum asked how much digital content should be integrated into advanced courses on journalism specialties, such as public affairs reporting and sports reporting. My answer is that the courses should have as much digital emphasis as the specialties have now, and that’s a lot. For instance, even TCU sportswriting legend Dan Jenkins, became a Twitter icon this year at age 79. Blogging, liveblogging and video are essential parts of sportswriting now, and the traditional game story is declining in importance to the point that sports writers are debating whether it’s dying. Any course on a specialty should reflect the current state and projected direction of that specialty.

Visual journalism. Photojournalism and graphic arts, as narrowly defined for much of my career, are outdated journalism specialties. While those skills remain important, visual journalists need to master (and be taught) a range of digital skills: video, audio, animation, multimedia graphics using programs such as Flash. And, of course, visual journalists need to learn ethical standards for using all these new tools and skills. Journalism students learning graphic arts should certainly learn how to make print graphics, but they also should learn to develop interactive multimedia, including simulations and games.

Live coverage. Increasingly, journalists need to provide live, unedited coverage of events. Whether in a reporting course, a visual journalism course, a live-coverage course or all three, students should learn how to liveblog, stream live video and aggregate real-time public content from social media.

Managing digital content. Digital journalism and strategic communication both will require a range of digital skills that are rapidly developing. The specific content of such a course and the balance of topics covered would change by semester, but someone should stay abreast of issues such as search-engine optimization, analytics, tagging, curation, aggregation, archiving, content-management systems and semantic technology. Some of these topics need to be introduced in lower-level courses, but they easily could be an upper-level course.

Design. Print design is fading in importance as newspapers cut newsholes and resources and require more regional design and use of templates. But web design and mobile design are areas of growing importance. Design courses should be adjusted accordingly.

Blogging. I don’t see a need for a course specifically in blogging (though I wouldn’t object either). Blogging should be part of nearly every writing course. In many courses, students should be required to keep a course blog. I evaluated portfolio blogs for seniors at the University of Nebraska, and I would encourage any journalism school to require students to maintain portfolio blogs.

Link journalism. Students need to learn how to use links, which are the footnotes of the digital world. This certainly should be part of reporting and editing courses.

Law and Ethics. As I address in my Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards seminars, ethics education needs to address a wide range of digital issues. Of course, digital journalism presents many legal issues as well. In fact, many (I suspect most) editors and journalism professors continue to follow outdated advice on court interpretations of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

First Amendment. The American Press Institute, where I worked for three years, collaborates with the First Amendment Center and the Freedom Forum to take our seminars to programs on the First Amendment. These programs gave me both a deep appreciation of our First Amendment freedoms and a keen realization that professional journalists don’t know enough about the history and current status of the First Amendment and the freedoms it guarantees. A First Amendment course could be a cross-disciplinary course with credit in journalism, religion and political science. With TCU’s international communication major, this course should include units on restrictions on our key freedoms in other nations.

TCU’s curriculum committee asked me whether I thought professionals would be interested in a certificate program in digital journalism for professionals needing to update their skills. While ability to pay might be impaired by staff reductions and fears about job security, I think interest in such programs would be high. I encourage journalism schools to offer such programs in person and/or online, and to either develop financial aid support for such courses or to cut down the university overhead in determining tuition, since professionals would not draw as heavily as younger students on university resources. Such a certificate program should allow considerable flexibility for professionals to fill the gaps in their own skills.

Many journalism schools will be hard-pressed to update their curricula as I’ve described (though some certainly are already doing some of these things). They will need to hire more faculty with digital skills, use adjunct faculty with digital skills and require faculty to update their own skills and knowledge.

I’m glad journalism schools are considering these issues and I hope they move decisively and swiftly to update.

En el corto tiempo que he tenido mi 5800, XM, he logrado explorar varias aplicaciones, y este es el Top 10 de las aplicaciones que a mi parecer NO pueden faltar en un Nokia 5800 XM.

1 Fring

Para los que usan Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, esté es uno de los programas indispensables, ademas de permitir llamadas sobre VoIP, es decir, si me conecto a una red Wi-Fi, o por medio de un plan de Datos, puedo llamar Gratis a cualquier persona que use Fring, a su teléfono, o realizar una llamada, Teléfono->PC, con Skype, Windows Live… o cualquiera de las redes sociales que soporta.

En está ultima versión tiene soporte para Twitter, y Facebook, así que puedo “Twittear” desde mi teléfono en cualquier momento.

Pagina Oficial: Fring

2 Google Maps

Aunque Nokia tiene un EXCELENTE servicio de mapas, que genera rutas a partir de dos puntos, Google Maps, tiene una característica que no podemos negarle lo hace indispensable, se llama, latitude.

que nos permite ver en tiempo real donde están nuestros amigos. y lo mejor de todo no necesita GPS.

Página oficial: Google Maps

3 ScreenSnap

Este programa es sencillo pero de gran utilidad, permite tomar sreenshots, del 5800, así que gracias a esté es que se.

Página Oficial: ScreenSnap

4. Qik

Ya se ha visto mucho sobre compartir Fotos, y Video,  Qik lleva la palabra “share” a otro nivel, ya que permite hacer streaming directamente desde el teléfono. Esto quiere decir que cualquier cosa que filme con mi teléfono puede ser visto en directo desde la pagina de qik, o sencillamente embeberlo en un blog, es así como hicimos la transmisión del concierto de the killers, en Colombia. (hasta que nos dió la bateria).

Página Oficial : Qik

5. Opera

Este Navegador es mi Favorito, ademas en esta versión le han agregado la posibilidad de cambio de ventanas, y un gestor de claves, la verdad voto por este como el mejor navegador mobile.

Página Oficial: Opera

6. Nokia BarCode Reader

Algunos Teléfonos de Nokia lo traen instalado, no es el caso de el Nokia 5800, pero para quienes vemos QR-Codes, aunque es algo geek, es algo divertido enviar mensajes codificados.

Página Oficial: MobileCodesNokia

7.Night Stand

Convierte el Nokia 5800, en un reloj de mesa, bastante interesante y agradable a la vista, aprovechando la base que trae.

incluso es mucho más comodo iniciar está aplicación mientras el teléfono está conectado al PC, para transferencia de datos.

Página Oficial: NightStand Touch

8. Adobe Reader Lite Edition

Es el lector oficial de Adobe, PERO es desarrollado por la misma empresa que hace Quick Office, aunque cuesta 15 USD, viene con garantía de 30 días, y también tiene una versión Trial por 7, la cual probé y  funciona muy bien.

Página Oficial QuickOffice

9. QuickOffice

Si el teléfono puede abrir pdf, por que no abrir un .docx?

Al igual que el PDF reader, está aplicación tiene un costo, de 19USD, pero permite abrir los archivos del conocido Microsoft Office 2007, es decir:

docx, xlsx, y , .ppt

también tiene su versión Trial que probé,

El archivo .docx no muestra las imágenes, pero la edición de texto es muy buena.

Los Archivos XLSx tienen soporte para formulas, además de una función de navegación directo.

10 Nokia Messaging

Esta es una GRAN GRAN aplicación que trae Nokia, y está aplicación se puede introducir con una Gran Pregunta.

¿Cuantos tienen que abrir 2, 3, 4, o hasta 10 páginas diferentes para ver sus correos?

hotmail, yahoo, google, ovi, etc

Pues Nokia Messaging es la aplicación de Nokia para manejar Todo desde el Teléfono.

la configuración es sencilla y se puede hacer desde la Página Oficial:

y en el teléfono tendremos algo así:

Todo en Uno, la verdad es una herramienta muy muy practica,

Pero será gratuita únicamente durante su primera fase. y el costo después de está fase no se ha publicado aún,

Berinteraksi dengan menggunakan media video atau biasa dikenal dengan streaming, merupakan cara yang cukup efektif. Pasalnya, hanya bermodalkan ponsel dengan fitur kamera, pengguna dapat melakukan komunikasi. Bahkan bisa saling bertukar informasi dalam format gambar gerak atau video. Seperti kemampuan yang dimiliki oleh aplikasi Qik.

Ya! untuk dapat salin bertukar video, berdiskusi maupun streaming dengan menggunakan aplikasi Qik ini, dilakukan terlebih dahulu adalah melakukan instalasi aplikasi.

Setelah proses instalasi berhasil. Buka aplikasi Qik dan Anda akan menemukan perintah Log in. Sebagai langkah awal, Anda masuk atau Log in sebagai pengguna baru. Kemudian masukkan alamat email, nama pengguna dan sandi pada kolom yang tersedia.

Selain itu, pada saat Log in, pengguna juga diwajibkan untuk mengisikan kode area negara. Hal ini dilakukan untuk memungkinkan pengguna dapat berinteraksi dengan pengguna lain di lain negara.

Labih lanjut, masukkan nomor ponsel Anda untuk segera didaftarkan pada server pusat. Dengan begitu, aktifitas yang Anda lakukan dengan menggunakan aplikasi Qik akan otomatis terhubung ke anggota Qik lainnya.

Untuk dapat memaksimalkan aplikasi Qik ini, Anda cukup mengikuti instruksi yang terdapat didalamnya.

I know I’m slacking on blogging. I still need to do my Interactive Video Game timeline thing, but this is way cooler.

By now, I’m sure everyone has heard about the Droid… if not you can get a brief overview from my last post. The Droid has some really cool features, and there are some really amazing things you can do with it. The Droid has a 5 megapixel camera on it, and it takes high resolution video (720×480). The camera is pretty crappy, hopefully they’ll fix it with an update or something, but the video isn’t half bad. For reference, the original “Flip Video” takes slightly lower resolution video (640×480). The quality is perfect for YouTube or whatever.

What am I getting at?

Qik is a live streaming program for your mobile device. It sounded like a pretty cool concept to me, so I downloaded it to check it out. You open up the app, press record, and you start recording and streaming LIVE on your own qik profile. Mine is www.qik.com/spiffysam I tested it out a little, recording my surroundings and watching it play back live. The delay isn’t too bad, honestly. It’s probably about 3 seconds. The video quality isn’t bad either, considering that I’m taking it with a cell phone and streaming live.

Check it out for yourself. You can watch some of the (extremely uninteresting) video clips I recorded earlier and if you’re lucky maybe you’ll catch me streaming something equally uninteresting live.

Mobile live-streaming service Qik announced today that you can download its app for the Droid phone from the Android Marketplace, and sign up for early beta access to a high-res version of the Qik client for the Droid that can capture videos in DVD resolution (720×480). The company says it’s the first live mobile provider to enable DVD-quality video capture.

Qik has also improved its capabilities to help users create shortcuts to make sharing Qik-created videos with your contacts or social media sites faster.

In the battle between the iPhone and the Droid, the Droid wins on the live-streaming front because, well, it actually streams live video. The iPhone lets you record video for uploading later.

Seit geraumer Zeit verwende ich ja das T-Mobile G1 (aka HTC Dream) als privates Phone und habe daher schon einige Zeit mit Android verbracht.

Hier die Apps, die ich verwende:

• Vorinstallierte Android Apps: Google Maps (auch als Öffi- und Fußweg-Planer!), Kalender, Email, Gmail, SMS, Google Talk, Chrome (Browser, Facebook nur über Browser), Musik (da braucht man einen HW-Adapter für Klingenstecker), Kamera, YouTube
• Andere häufig benutze Apps vom Android Market: Twidroid (twitter), Netcounter (Datenverbrauch), Battery Graph (Akkuverbrauch), OI Dateimanager (File-Explorer), Close Everything (schließt offene Apps), OI Notepad, WeatherBug, OI Einkaufsliste, Skype Lite Beta, Greed (Feedreader), AndNav2! (Navigationssytem, vgl TomTom), Text-To-Speech Library Extended (braucht man für AndNav2!), barcoo (Barcode Scanner), qik (Video aufnehmen und gleich online stellen), Shazam (Erkennen von Musik vom Lautsprecher)
• Widgets (auf Home-Screen): Brightness Toggle Widget, Headset Toggle Widget, Kalender
• Spiele: Labyrinth Lite, Bubble Burst Lite, FML (Fuck My Life, lustige Geschichen), Pacman, Sudoku Free, Tic Tac Toe, Slide Puzzle, Android Space Invaders etc.
  Leider gibt es auf iPhone einige Spiele, die ich im Android vermisse, z.B. Fastlane, Pocket God, Vooch, Zooma, Stoneloops, Peggle.
• System Apps vom Android Market: Camcorder, Compass, Bubble, JF Updater (Updaten auf andere Android-Firmeware-Versionen, geht nur bei gerootetem Android), Metal Detector, mp3tagger, Taschenlampe, APNdroid (ein und ausschalten der gesamten Netzwerkverbindung, im Ausland sinnvoll), Phonalyzr (Grafische Darstellung der Verwendung)

Wem das nicht reicht, marc (aka murdelta) hat auch eine kleine Liste mit Apps geschrieben, die er am Android Market entdeckt hat.

T-Mobile Pulse

Die Firmware verhält sich beim T-Mobile Pulse im Vergleich zum G1 sehr ähnlich. Ein paar kleine Features sind dazugekommen und die Icons für die Applikationen sehen etwas anders aus, aber im Wesentlichen ist alles beim Alten, sodass ich mich gut zurecht gefunden habe.

Leider hat uns T-Mobile dieses mal für die T-Mobile Pulse Testaktion (bei der G1 Aktion schon) kein Screenshot-Tool zur Verfügung gestellt, deswegen muss ich leider auf die Bilchen von anderen verweisen (siehe links).

Die Hardware ist sehr ansprechend, erinnert stark an das iPhone, weil es auch so rund ist und das Display etwas größer ist als das vom G1. Vom Gewicht her dürfte es sehr gleich sein. Die Anwendungen reagieren schnell, so wie ich es von anderen Android Phones auch gewöhnt bin.

Mein Eindruck vom T-Mobile Pulse hat sich zu meinem letzten Beitrag allerdings nicht verändert: Die herausschiebbare Tastatur fehlt mir sehr!

Die Software der Onscreen-Tastatur kann zwar durch andere Apps ersetzt werden, aber mir gehen die Tasten wirklich ab, da ich bei der Tippgeschwindigkeit sicher auf ein Drittel herunter gebremst werde. Mein mittlerweile gut trainiertes 10-Finger-auf-2-Daumen-System im Querformat ist durch ständiges Vertippen unbrauchbar geworden und zur iPhone-mäßigen ein-Zeigefinger-Tipperin fehlt mir irgendwie die Geduld – vor allem, seit ich weiß, dass es auch anders geht.

Daher bleibe ich vorerst beim G1 und freue mich schon auf Motorola Droid, ein Android Phone mit Android 2.0 (aka Eclair) und herausschiebbarer Tastatur, das in einigen Monaten kommen soll.

After waiting more than two weeks for my box of 1997 Topps Gallery, the box arrived early Wednesday morning via FedEx. I broke it LIVE on steaming video. Images of the cards will be scanned and shown later. Over all a pretty cool box, hope you enjoy it.

Also, there are a few other video breaks that can be seen at www.qik.com/cardboardicons. I recently broke a retail Blaster of 2009 SP Baseball (link), a Retail Tin of 2009 Sweet Spot baseball (link 1, link 2),  a discounted 2008 Stadium Club Blaster (link), and a 1996 Upper Deck Series 2. hobby box (link). And if you have not yet done so, you can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cardboardicons. I send out a tweet minutes before each LIVE video break.

The pathology department at Albany Medical Center is moving!  Our current building is being demolished and replaced by a new, second, huge OR suite on track for a 2011 opening.  Our new accommodations will now be in the hospital proper (very exciting).

We are moving Tuesday, but the bones are all in place, and the new dept. looks beautiful.  We will have two full sign out rooms accommodating 4 multi-headed scopes.  A single central residents room with 16 cubbies and a separate attached office for the chief residents.  Each of the cubbies has its own ethernet jack, and there is a common area for department computers, printers, and image capturing scopes.  The new conference room is greatly opened and expanded and will contain a new projection system with a smart board and all modular furniture.  We are giving up some window real estate, but ultimately we are closer to the morgue, the OR, the cafeteria and the parking garage; so, overall, I think this is definitely an upgrade for us.

How does it stack up to yours?

Check out me Qik’ed video walk-through below:

Программа для Nokia 5800, которая аналогично Youtube, транслирует потоковое видео в реальном времени с смартфона в интернет.

С этими трансляциями можно выполнять различные действия, например публиковать в  блогах и форумах. Для работы с программой необходима регистрация на сайте qik.com. На этом сайте есть чат для пользователей, просматривающих вещание, автор вещания будет видеть чат на экране своего Nokia 5800. Программу Qik я бесплатно скачал из OVI магазина. Затем зарегистрировался и подтвердил регистрацию. Сегодня утром сделал пробную трансляцию видео на сайт. В программе можно выбрать три режима качества для видео,  а также запись с звуком. Звука по каким-то причинам нет. Вполне возможно, что это ошибка не только на Nokia 5800. Форум сайта qik.com полон подобных сообщений от пользователей других смартфонов. Качество видео меня приятно удивило. Для людей с безлимитным тарифом просто находка. Всё видео переданное на сайт qik.com записывается и доступно для просмотра. Также можно для каждого видео выбрать степень доступа для аудитории. То есть возможность сделать видео приватным или доступным для всех.

Пример моей первой трансляции: http://qik.com/nokia5800blog

working on a daily video blog so you can see whats up with us and the progress we are making on the new studio. new videos will show up in our twitter feed and you can check out the channel to the right:

A FESTA DA PREMIAÇÃO DO 7 FESTIVAL CURTA SANTOS ACONTECE AMANHÃ SÁBADO AS 21:00Hrs.

NA QUADRA DA UNIÃO IMPERIAL DA CIDADE DE SANTOS.

A SET EXPERIMENTAL®  TRANSMITE FLASHES AO VIVO VIA QIK/CELULAR.

VEJA + : www.qik.com/setexperimental

I recently joined Qik, which is a lot better for getting videos uploaded quickly. The quality isn’t as good as my scratch time series, but I can get a video uploaded as I’m creating the content. This is perfect for showcasing the time i get to practice.

I haven’t blogged in over 2 weeks, which is a long time! I haven’t been uploading Scratch videos as often as I like because, in all honesty, I need some new material! It’s not to say I haven’t been practising though, as my N86 can tell you.
I recently signed up for Qik – a free application that allows my N86 to stream live video straight to the internet!
I’ve also set it so that once the video is recorded, it will also go directly to my Youtube account. I’ve uploaded 2 live streams to Qik so far, one of which has gone to Youtube. I only upload practices, because when producing proper scratch videos I want the quality to be tip top, which requires a line in and separate recording for audio.

So, the point of this post, is to review the N86 8MP from Nokia. I’m aware that this is new on the market, so worth giving my two cents.
Ok, let’s start where everyone wants to, the camera. As an upgrade from the N81, and having a 2MP camera, the N86 is obviously an astounding improvement for me.

The first photo I took with my N86, and of a pint in the pub, the picture looked fantastic on the OLED screen of the phone, and didn’t disappoint when I uploaded to my PC. The light conditions weren’t great, being at night and all. The dual-LED flash stood up to the test and has produced a real quality shot in my opinion.

My first panorama shot. The really cool thing about this is that the N86 stitches the frames together for you. You take the first shot, and it will guide you across to make the next one. It will automatically take the next shot when the next shot lines up with the previous one, so perfect panorama every time!

So that’s the camera out of the way, but there is so much more about this phone. There were a lot of complaints about previous NSeries phones with regards to build-quality. With the N86, Nokia have addressed this with a stunning glass/metal finish. The back of the phone is still plastic, but it’s not that cheap shiney finger print magnet crap that I was used to with the N81.

Another problem with the N81 was the music keys. They were so cramped and there were just to many buttons for the space allocated. A vast improvement in that area has been made in the N86, the buttons are spaced out a lot better, and are a lot more tactile making the phone so much easier to use.
The numeric keypad itself is a lot better for me too. The numbers are individual circular buttons this time, rather than the 3-numbers-a-strip a was used to with the N81. It’s a lot easier on my thumbs while texting/tweeting.

Speaking of tweeting, after recommendations from phone buffs a lot more intelligent than myself, I decided to download Gravity. This was not free, so it wasn’t an impulse decision to get it, and I am very pleased with it. The main plus for me was that it allows multiple accounts, and it’s very clear which one you are tweeting from! (past experience with tweetdeck has meant I’ve sent tweets from the wrong account!)
Gravity also allows me to twitpic, so I can share photos from the N86 with my twitter followers when I’m anywhere, so I can share a photo pretty much as soon as it’s been taken!

There is of course a kickstand on the N86, allowing you to rest the N86 on a table and watch videos. What’s really cool about this kickstand is that you can set it to open a particular application when it’s folded out. I’ve set it to open the Youtube app.

The speaker quality of the phone isn’t as good as N81. The N81 was a music phone and the speakers gave out a great sound. This isn’t so with the N86, the sound’s ok, but to be completely honest, I’m not going to use this phone to blare music out of when I’m out in public like some chavvy kid trying to be the next Jazzy Jeff.

Good thing is, you don’t need to rely on the speakers for the N86. It has a standard 3.5mm headphone output, so you can use your iPod, Skullkandy or whatever headphones you like to listen to music from this phone. It also has an FM-Transmitter for when you’re in your car, which I’ve found is a lot better quality than my iTrip from Griffin!

Another downside to the phone is that it is slow. This isn’t a poblem for me because I have the patience to wait the 0.3 seconds it takes to do things, in all honesty I don’t get people that complain about that, but I must include it to give a full review.

I was going to complain about the battery, it hadn’t impressed me to start with. However, I had not given it a full charge, I didn’t have the time. Since then I have been able to and the battery seems to give the same life I was used to with the N81. It’s quite impressive when I consider all the crap it’s running. I’m not a real power user and can get a good few days out of this phone. It’s true test came last weekend, I was twitpicking, and taking videos, checking Facebook etc, and it lasted the whole weekend.

It’s also worth mentioning that when I switched from N81 to N86, I could transfer all of my contacts, and my messages via Bluetooth, this saved SO MUCH hassle.

So overall I’m amazed by this phone, I believe it’s the best Nokia available right now. Better than the N97. I was in the market for good camera phone and boy did I find one.

Ning released a feature that allows you to add Ning Apps to your Ning Network.

Application Site: http://yournetwork.ning.com/main/admin/manage

Steps:

Step-1. Go to Manage tab.

Step-2. Under Your Network section, click on Ning Apps [1].

Step-3. Browse and select an app by hitting on Add Ning App.

Step-4. Agree to Terms of Use.

Step-5. Name the new Tab, or make it a sub-tab.

Step-6. On the left hand side of the screen, your new tab or sub-tab is displayed. You can drag this to your desired location.

Step-7. Click on Save Tab Settings. [2]

Process Time: 30 seconds

Compare: KickApps, JS-Kit.

Notes:

[1] Ning provides apps in the following categories: Collaboration, Communication, Dating, E-commerce, Fun and Games, Fundraising, Video, Featured, and Staff Picks.

[2] You can now view the apps by browsing through the menu. I tried to add Hulu, Qik, and uStream.tv as sub-tabs under the Video tab of Techbays Community. Check it out.

Now that life has calmed down some (ha!), back to reflecting…

You may remember students referring to me before as being “legit.” Well it seems this group of kids think the same thing as I’ve been hearing this same comment recently. Not going to lie, it makes me feel good. I want students to realize we aren’t doing just busy work, we’re doing work to benefit them. Too many times I’ve heard, “Well Mrs. (fill in the blank) only had us do busy work stuff. English was so boring!” Though not every student is all about English class, I have noticed that even within the first few weeks of school, some students now have more confidence within the English classroom and are opening up. Positive steps towards the learning environment that is beginning to take shape in my classroom which is definitely awesome to see happen.

One of the big projects I have had students do so far is create a book trailer. (You can check out the ideas behind the trailer project here.) Basically, students were required to read a pleasure book this summer. The first component of their reading included creating a voicethread. Then, instead of having them write an essay about the book, I asked them to create a trailer that made others want to read their book. (Side note: I’m having all of my classes continue their independent reading and create a trailer for the end of the semester too. I want them to read (and real a lot!), so this is a way to get them going…) I really cannot stress how truly impressed I was by their work. At first, they were all pretty resistant to the idea…”we have to do what?!?” So it took lots of reassuring and reexplaining to help them realize they could do it. From complaining about the length (4-5 minutes) to technology issues, I heard it all. But their end results proved to me that I wasn’t asking too much and their resistance stemmed from not being comfortable working in this “different” medium.

What did I learn?

1. Students are very capable. Sometimes you have to push them to help them see that they can do things even if they “hate” you for it.
2. The problem is not using the technology, yet technology suddenly becomes the excuse. What I mean by this is that a lot of students made it quite clear (at the last minute) that technology wasn’t working for them. Yes, I do believe there are a few glitches that needed to be taken care of, but I realized that technology wasn’t the problem —> the true culprit was procrastination!
3. By having students fill out the project packet, they seemed to “get” that the trailers served the purpose of a pre-writing strategy for their book trailers (or in other words, book review essays in a media format). They weren’t thrilled about the packets, but I wanted them to consciously sit down and think about what they were doing…and then be prepared to explain why they did what they did. (This last point is a common trend in my classroom…I want them to ALWAYS be thinking, and thinking deeply, about everything they do.)

One thing I have found very interesting (and cool) is seeing students do their DGPs (Daily Grammar Practice) on their tablet pcs. We are a one-to-one school so this is possible of course, but I never realized they were utilizing their computers in this way. They liked being able to mark-up their weekly sentence in color and having that “file” with them vs. carrying in a notebook.

In addition, I realized that students do notice some of the little things you do…for example, one day I forgot to write the date on the board (I always write the date in the corner of the board), and a student quickly reminded me. They like consistency. And having the date on the board, in the same place, every day is one of those little things they secretly appreciate.

Finally, the Ning work across the board is going pretty well. Right now, most blog posts have been teacher-prompted, but to my surprise (and delight) some students have blogged on their own and commented on their peers’ work. And students seem to really like “Ning-ing” – the term they have coined for our Ning work, ha!

Now it’s off to create a few quizzes to hopefully use on Moodle tomorrow. Moodle is a goal of mine. I have used a few different online classroom management systems, and for freeware, Moodle gets the job done. However, sometimes it just feels so bulky and not user-friendly for me. Nonetheless, I do like using it and with the rise of the flu (and the fear that school could close if things got really bad), it’s nice to know that tools like Moodle (or my class Nings) could keep class up-and-running from home. (My school is actually working to implement procedures to go into affect if school needs to be closed. A great example of how technology can greatly help us keep things going!)

As pictured in the previous post, we are trying with this app to  push the boundaries of what we might want to do with phones based on Symbian.

We are here in Oschersleben at Motorsport Arena with Schubert Motorsport.

The car has been rigged up with the N95 and both applications (Qik and RaceChrono) have demonstrated good performances.

It is now time to go live and show you more about the idea. Live streaming to Qik!

Let the experience begin:

Mobile phones have been part of many people’s daily life for more than 10 years. Enabling us to get closer to people in a mobile manner, via calls, sms, internet and lately social media services.

These devices are now allowing us to develop new experiences. In the next series of blog posts, we’ll be trying to capture how Symbian, as a platform, enables people to experience life to the most and push their own boundaries.

I will be starting with an exciting experiment and will share that with you live.

On Thursday, I will be heading to Germany and especially to Motorsport Arena in Oschersleben.

I will be meeting with Stefan Wendl from Schubert Motorsport. The team is heavily involved in DTM and Mini Challenge.

The plan of the day? Work together on how we can use two important Symbian applications to improve race drivers skills.

We’ll be rigging an N95 on a Mini John Cooper Works such as this one:

We’ll start first with Qik which will allow broadcasting the video live from the car to the paddock, over an inexpensive 3G flat rate.

RaceChrono will be running on the device, recording lap times, trajectories on the track, thanks to the GPS.

In the long run, the goal is of course to combine the live video feed with the data from RaceChrono and offer added value on the live video stream.

For this experiment, I’ll report live from the track and will allow you guys to get into the experience. A new post will come up on Thursday for that.

Follow us on Twitter: @Symbian for the exact time we’ll go live.

Julien, excited to be part of this experience.

Piadas a parte, conheci o Qik, agora qq ser com um celular médio (fácil) e um pacote de dados (nem tão fácil $) pode compartilhar seus vídeos – ao vivo.

Funciona assim: você instala o aplicativo no celular e sai filmando, posta o link no Twitter e seus coleguinhas acompanham ao vivo o que vocês está capturando. Lentidões de rede à parte, sensacional acompanhar uma partida de futebol, show, um encontro inesperado e otras cositas más. E olha que é só mais uma possibilidade…

Camila Zanqueta