Initial+Meeting

Meeting Notes of 5/20

· How do you determine the credibility and validity of sources? · How has the media changed in the last 5 years? · How has the 24 hour news cycle changed news reporting? · How have new technologies changed news reporting?
 * Overview Reading:** [|Truth, Can You Handle It], [|Tossed by the Gale], [|Irish Student Hoax], [|No Time to Think] [|Battleground: the media] [|SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World]
 * Essential Questions:**

· Participate online in classes & discussions · Research online without Google · Use electronic reference materials and the Internet for research, evaluate sources, and properly cite electronic sources (text, graphics, sound and video) · Evaluate credibility of Internet sources · Use technology in conjunction with information and communication skills. For example: Use communication, information processing, and research tools (such as word processing, e-mail, groupware, presentation software, social networks, and the Internet) to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and communicate information)
 * 21st century skills taught in this lesson:**

· Skype with Poynter Institute professor or author of No Time to Think (Rosenberg and Feldman) · Combined Lang/Gov Wiki with RSS Feeds, Video, and Blog Discussion · Useful tools: Ebscohost RSS Feed; Diigo; GoogleNotebook · Students will discover bias due to political agenda and economics · Students will look at information from various sources · Left/ Right aggregator bias: HuffPo, The Daily Beast, Drudge Report · Paper (different topics for Lang/Gov) due early November
 * Potential Ideas:**

<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Do we want to stick with media bias and elections? or are we going to expand out to media bias and new technology. how are we going to limit it? Are we going to limit it?

Week Before: Twitter Parental Permission

Day 1: (HW: reading--Chapter 3 in //No Time To Think//): -Discussion of shifting media with new technology 15 minutes; Monty Python clip-rhetoric, argument, contradiction; Jon Stewart (purpose of the media), Obama/Bush Joker poster; Twitter hw Day 2: (HW: Twitter articles: //Journalist guide to Twitter-//Bettencourt//, How to Ask Effective Questions on Twitter-//Rowse; //The Highs and Lows of Public Officials on Twitter-//Mark Hannah); Why is twitter necessary? 1812, Pearl Harbor, Tiananmen Square, 9-11, Iranian Elections;Twitter log on and how to follow news issues-hash tags, sample searches, DMs and follow up, ask each other questions, go to Leah's website in class and talk about credentials, intro in prep. for talk next day, (HW: Prepare two questions to ask Leah on issues discussed so far) LUNCH (DAY 4): Talk to Leah Day 3: (HW: media bias/country stripped articles for analysis of bias/ rank articles based on bias) Neda's death (event) Iranian elections on use of Twitter case study--power point on 18 days, Podcast assignment introduction Day 4: (HW:Go to muckrack and media on twitter and find 2 other journalists and ask them 2 follow up questions of the students choice--be sure to add Berkeley hash tags) Go over the articles assigned for HW; assign countries/topics and media outlets; requirements of assignments:
 * Part I:**