New Info Techs, 09.01
Welcome to the New Information Technologies Group for Spring 2009. This site is an essential part of the New Information Technologies course this term.
Look here for information about readings, assignments, and other course material.
If you ever have any difficulty accessing or using this site, please let me know immediately.
Frederick Emrich
Internet Governance in Kazakhstan
For next class, please read “Internet Governance in Kazakhstan,” pages 119 to 131 in the OSCE report, Governing the Internet. Note the link above is to the entire document, but you only have to read one chapter.
For Thursday, please read the article "Citizen Journalism in Central Asia," and the OpenNet Initiative report on Kazakhstan, also linked above.
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Volunteering for BarCamp
For people interested in volunteering for the BarCamp conference, there will be a meeting of volunteers today (Thursday 16 April), at 16:00 in Medianet (Kazybek bi - Furmanova, opposite Soho and Kazkontract building, 3floor, 100 room, Mediaschool).
(If you are in my 16.00 class, no, we are not canceling class for the meeting.) read more »
In class: Reviewing final project sites
Today in class I will be briefly reviewing project weblogs with project groups/individuals to give you some feedback. You should also be doing some examination of your project weblogs yourself. Some things to look for: read more »
- Two entries per week from each participant, beginning with the week we returned from break. (At this point that means around 8 or 10 entries per person, including specific assignments.)
- Entries should be your original writing. Quotes and sources must be indicated. I'm mostly interested in seeing that you are "thinking out loud" with blog entries.
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KIMEP hosts BarCamp Central Asia 2009
This coming weekend (17 to 19 April) KIMEP hosts BarCamp Central Asia 2009, an "un-conference" for developing new media skills. Participants include professionals and amateurs, experts and newbies.
This should be a great opportunity for anyone looking to learn more about the latest networked tools, to interact with people using new media in the region, or to get their feet wet with new technologies. read more »
Citing sources, online and offline
The following guidelines for citing sources apply to all material submitted for this course: read more »
Reading: "We Media" chapters three and four
For Thursday 19 March, please read chapter 4 of the We Media Report, "The Rules of Participation." For Tuesday 24 March, please read chapter 3, "How Participatory Journalism is Taking Form."
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Weblog project assignment
Your final project is to produce a weblog on one or more topics of your choosing. The project will run from the week after the midterm break until the last day of the term, and students will be required to post a minimum of two substantive entries per week on the weblog.
I encourage students to form groups for their project weblogs. It's more fun and more inspiring to contribute to a weblog to which others also contribute. (We will learn to set up group weblogs in class.) However, for those who wish to do so, doing your weblog solo is also an option. read more »
In class: starting your online beat with Google Reader
To prepare for today's class, I asked everyone to set up a Google Reader account. Please open your account now. Today we will begin the process of creating your "online beat."
To do this we will:
- Learn a few ways to subscribe feeds
- Learn to organize feeds
- Learn to make feeds public
- Search for feeds on topics that interest you
- Locate, subscribe, organize, and make public your feeds
By the end of class, please post a link to your public feeds as a comment on this post.
Readings on blogs and RSS
Before class on Tuesday, please read the linked articles (Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (part one) and the Guide to RSS) and create a gmail account. We will work with Gmail Reader in class on Tuesday.
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What is journalism?
To begin our discussion of participatory journalism, please take 10 minutes at the beginning of class to write a brief entry (about two paragraphs) answering the question, "What is journalism?" In your response, you might consider things such as: why (or whether) journalism is important; how we rely on journalism (or not); who is a journalist, and why, and so on.
Submit your entry on your Wordpress weblog, and leave a link to your entry as a comment on this entry. (If you do not finish your entry in class, be sure to go back and finish it later.)
Participatory Journalism
Some important ideas from our "We Media" reading assignment: read more »
- Gatekeeper function of news media: When relatively few people have strong influence over what appears in media, it can provoke a concern that, as "gatekeepers" of information, they have too much social power.
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Reading: "We Media" chapters one and two
For next week, please read chapters one ("Introduction to Participatory Journalism") and two ("Cultural Context: behind the explosion of participatory media")of "We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information," available at the links above.
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Weblog review assignment
In class today we looked at a few weblogs, examining their characteristics, content, and so forth. We also looked at a couple of tools (Wordpress.com and Google Blog Search) that can be used to search for weblogs.
Before class Thursday, please complete the following assignment: read more »
- Locate a weblog that is interesting to you. It doesn't matter what the topic is. It can be newsy, humorous, personal, or something else. The important things are that it is a weblog, and that you think the weblog is interesting.
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Readings on weblogs
For next class, please read Mark Glaser, "Your Guide to Blogging," and Jonathan Dube's "RSS for Journalists." Please also explore the Teaching Online Journalism weblog and the neweurasia.net weblog. All materials are linked above.
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In Class: Setting up a Wordpress Weblog
This is intended as an in-class assignment. If you do not finish in-class, however, please complete the assignment before the beginning of the next class session.
In class today we will begin the process of setting up a weblog at Wordpress.com. To begin, each student will set up an individual weblog. The purpose is to introduce you to the Wordpress system.
Wordpress will become the platform you will use for your group projects, but before you can run a group site with Wordpress, you need to know the basics of Wordpress individual sites. read more »
20 January: In class today
In class today we will:
- Check to see everyone is signed up for and can use the course website
- Introduce the major characteristics of new information technologies
NITs: Four Major Characteristics
New information technologies (NITs) are digital, networked, interactive, socio-technical systems for gathering, producing, and distributing meaning, ideas, and knowledge. (These last three words can be used to stand for information, a problematic term we will explore further.)
Think of technologies (which I have referred to above as systems) as a combination of tools (the things we use to influence the world) and the knowledge through which we create and use those tools. read more »
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First assignment for New Information Technologies
For your first assignment for the New Information Technologies group, please write a brief introduction about yourself for the group. Your introduction should tell us:
--Who you are
--Something you want to share about yourself (interests, background, etc)
--A bit of your experience with online technologies (Do you run a weblog? Do you use Facebook or another social networking site? Are you afraid of computers?)
Use the Create Assignment link above to write your entry, and mark it as "NITS: Website Submission" under course assignments.
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Yennifer's weblog
Hello everybody!
As I have understood no one of you has a link to my new weblog.
I'd be glad if you caould come and read it.And, of course, leave a comment!=)
Thank you in advance!
Yennifer!
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The love tree for my boyfriend!
Hello everybody!
How are you?
Could you please visit this page:
http://valentine.magiclands.ru/lovetree/7004110975
It's a love tree for my boyfriend. Thank you very much!)
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Hello World!!!!
Hi again! My name is Botagoz.
I am very glad to be a journalist student in KIMEP!
I am third year student.
First assignment
Hello everybody!!!
My name is Svetlana Aitpaeva! I'm a third year student of BAIJ program.
I wanna be honest, I'm really afraid of computers!))) Of course, like the person of XXI century I use such simple things like e-mail, several sites in which I just have a fun, chatting, etc. But I'm really nervous with closer relationship with that "system"))))
I hope that this course will be really helpful & teach me to make free use of computer technologies. read more »
Assignment
Hello, my name is Sundong Lee. I'm a student at Kyungsung University in Korea. My major is Journalism and mass communication department. I'm junior.
Yes, I'm exchange student from South Korea. Why I am come in to Kazakhstan, There are some reason.
I watched a TV program which was about Kazakhstan. It showed that is one of the good country to live. Nowadays, there is cultural exchange between Korea and Kazakhstan. I hope that if I can take this chance, I will try as hard as I can and I hope I will get a lot of things for my desire. So i come in. read more »
Guess Who?
Yuki.
Interests: music, art, literature, Yukio Mishima, no ordinary movies, Maynard James Keenan, negative personages, dissociative identity disorder, Billy Milligan, journalism, Cannes Lions advertising festival
Fav: TOOL, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, 10 Years, Radiohead
Internet addicted. You can also see me on this site www.vkontakte.ru (:
Introductory class
Hello everybody!
My name is Sergey. I'm a second-year BAIJ student. I have a lot of different interests. Some of them are journalism, literature, music, fashion, art, PR and psychology. I also go to the fitness class in order to create good muscly body. I study french and have been doing it for 1,5 year.
Unfortunately, I have never had a deal with blogs and web-journalism. But I have heard about it many times. I hope that this course will be very interesting and informative, and when it finishes I will use all knowledge concerning New Information Technology.
=)
Hey!!! I'm Milana i'm a first year student. I'm too far from being advanced user..( I haven't got a weblog, cause i don't think i have a lot to say there. But still, i guess it's going to be quiet interesting to try =)
A little bit of me
Hello!
My name is Regina Galiyeva, but you can call me Yennifer. Just please don't ask me why not Jennifer - it's really irritate me!
I'm the second-year student at BAIJ program at KIMEP.
I'm very creative person. Among my interest I can mention dance, photography, journalism, studying languages, Internet, and etc. read more »
Introdusing myself, NIT
My name is Tana, and I'm 18 years old. I'm student of BAIJ cousre, and there only 4 credits for me to be a third year student=)
My major interests are Fantasy, books and movies. Also I like to write different stories and I extremely love to write my books, but no one from three of them are ended=) read more »
Assignment #1
My name is Alexander. I am a third year student, BSS program. I choose this course cuz I find in interesting for myself. From the very beginning of my life I receive all kind of information - books, TV, newspapers, etc. As all of you, I was born in last century, and not only century, but millennium. Finally, Internet with more-less good quality appeared in Kazakhstan, and today the main source of information for me became WEB. I don't want to stop on Internet, thus now I want to know modern information technologies. read more »
My personal experience with online technologies
Hi!
My name's Aigerim Kharessova and I'd like to tell a couple of words about my experience with online technologies. Online technologies are one of the major developing fields of today's information technologies. What I like in online technologies is that the whole process of applying different software programs is creative, interesting, fan, and exciting process. And you also can be a very fast in learning to apply those information technologies. Thus, I used to have a blog on Live journal and I'm using other different social networks like facebook.com, vkontakte.com, flickr.com,etc.
intro
My names is Daniya,and I am second year student of BAIJ..I hope that this course will be useful and interesting..I really interested of this course..
First assignment
My name is Akhtyamova Yuliya, I'm second year BAIJ student. I'm in the 1-st section of the New Information Technologies course. As a future journalist I am very interested in this course, I think that it would be exciting to work in groups or do some individual assignments. I hope it wouls help me to become better user of information technologies. I've got some experience of using such social sites as vkontakte.ru and hi5.com .But generally I'm not a very good user of computer.And due to being a real blonde I usually have some troubles with it;)
About me!!!
HI!!!My name is Dauren, I am really good:)person, at least wanna be. Well I am interesting in this course due to its unique name and hope that is really will excite me, so about online technologies I really like using it, espessialy it saves a lot of time, but my experience using blogs, forums is not suffiecient, and this course hopefully is going to help me to deal with that
Introduction
Hi everyone!)
My Name is Orlov Yan
I'm a BSSPA4 student. Major is Public Management and Minor is Public Relations
I took the course of New Information Technologies, section 1, because I'm interested in Journalism and expect to gain new knowledge and skills from this course that would be useful in my future activities!
Well, talking about myself, I would say that I am friendly, communicative and responsible person. I'm interested in politics, journalism, public relations. I also like sport, music, reading interesting books and lots of other things.. read more »
Intro
Hi! My name is Anara, i'm a 2 year baij student! I spend a lot of my free time in internet!I really like using vkontakte.ru, i think i'm a little bit obsessive of it( i'm not the one with this problem, i guess)! I like reading books online, listening and downloading music, films, so i guess i live in internet!
introduction
My name is Irene, i'm a freshman.
Most of my time i spend in internet. I have a web-blog, in fact i have two. Nothing serious, just writing some stuff. So, i'm not completely unfamiliar with the idea. I'm totally not afraid of computers. Can't say i'm a pro, just a former user. In fact, i hope my future will be closely related to them, more than it's now, i mean.
I don't know, what to expect from the course, but i'm optimistic as long as we're working with internet.
thanks for reading.
Introduction
Hello everyone, me name is Yuliya, I`m the second year student of journalisim faculty. I expect this course to be very interesting, creative, and I`m really interested in creating online blogs, magazines and so on.
Assignment 1
My name is Zarrina, I am a 2nd-year BAIJ-student, I'm a future PR-specialist. I want to improve my skills in journalism and computer knowledge. I like to use Internet, e-mail, chats, a lot of sites which are very useful for me. I've never had online Blogs before this course, but I hope it will be very interesting!!! =)
Hello from me
My name is Frederick and I am the instructor for the NITs course. I've lived in Almaty for more than two years and I like the snow here. (Before living here I lived in Canada. We had more snow there.)
I've been teaching about new technologies for a few years now, but even though I like being online, it's a love-hate relationship. It's great having access to the internet, using email, weblogs, and other sites. But sometimes I find the internet is just too demanding...
I'm looking forward to working with all of you and to learning some things from you as I share what I know with you.
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