10 Twitter how-tos for Twitter’s 10th birthday – Poynter In honor of 10 years of journalists tweeting (and getting into Twitter fights, tweetstorming and tweeting hot takes), here are 10 guides to using the social network from our archives. These include advice from people such as Craig Silverman, now editor at BuzzFeed Canada, on posting Twitter corrections, Nisha Chittal, manager of social media at MSNBC, on figuring out what's public and private on Twitter, and David Beard, executive editor at PRI, who suggested eight ways to attract followers. 10 ways journalists can use Twitter before, during and after reporting a story By Mallary Jean Tenore, 2011 One way Tenore suggests using Twitter is to curate reactions to the news. The tweets prompted me to write about the style change and capture people’s reactions in my lead: “When the AP Stylebook announced via Twitter that it was changing the style for ‘Web site’ to ‘website,’ some users let out shouts of praise: “Finally!” I find it essential to have coworkers who can be my reality check.
HeadlineSpot.com: US Newspapers Online News Headlines, World News, Current Events. Information Literacy Lessons Crucial in a Post-Truth World Why Librarians Are More Crucial Than Ever In the aftermath of the US presidential election, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to live in a post-truth world. I was shocked to read several accounts explaining that a majority of Americans receive their news via Facebook. “Trending stories” are highlighted in the right-hand margin of your Facebook page and serve as click bait. Since Facebook has already determined your political bias (check it out– it’s in your settings under US Politics), these stories play into each user’s biases and fears and are selected by algorithms, not people. Between 40-60% of Americans recently surveyed depend on social media as a news source. I wasn’t really aware of this problem of fake news until I read an op-ed in The New York Times. Teaching Information Literacy and How to Evaluate Websites Screenshot of Seeking the domain address via who.is The Profound Importance of Teaching Information Literacy Help in Detecting Fake News
News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016 A majority of U.S. adults – 62% – get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center, conducted in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In 2012, based on a slightly different question, 49% of U.S. adults reported seeing news on social media. But which social media sites have the largest portion of users getting news there? How many get news on multiple social media sites? As part of an ongoing examination of social media and news, Pew Research Center analyzed the scope and characteristics of social media news consumers across nine social networking sites. News plays a varying role across the social networking sites studied. It is also useful to see how, when combined with the sites’ total reach, the proportion of users who gets news on each site translates to U.S. adults overall. The audience overlap To what extent do the various news audiences on social media overlap? Seeking out news online Changes over time
Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting Craig Silverman is the founder of Emergent, a real-time rumor tracker and debunker. He was a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, and is a leading expert on media errors, accuracy and verification. Craig is also the founder and editor of Regret the Error, a blog about media accuracy and the discipline of verification that is now a part of the Poynter Institute. He edited the Verification Handbook, previously served as director of content for Spundge, and helped launch OpenFile, an online local news startup that delivered community-driven reporting in six Canadian cities. Craig is also the former managing editor of PBS MediaShift and has been a columnist for The Globe And Mail, Toronto Star, and Columbia Journalism Review. He tweets at @craigsilverman. Rina Tsubaki leads and manages the "Verification Handbook" and "Emergency Journalism" initiatives at the European Journalism Centre in the Netherlands.
Getting it Right: Fact-Checking in the Digital Age Jane Elizabeth, a veteran journalist and adjunct professor at Old Dominion University, settled on a simple exercise to test her class on fact-checking a few semesters back. She gave her students a news story and told them to identify the parts of the article that a thorough fact checker would work to verify. As she flipped through the finished assignments, Elizabeth noticed each student made the same error. “They forgot to circle the quotes,” she said. Now Elizabeth and a group of colleagues are out to rectify such misconceptions and lackluster practices with their work for American Press Institute’s fact-checking project. One goal of the project, Elizabeth said, is to help journalists fight misinformation entering the 2016 election season. Fact-checking journalism has gained steam in recent years as the Internet both fuels the need for it by allowing misinformation to spread faster and spawns new tools to combat it through crowdsourcing and automation. Most False Tweets Go Uncorrected
Fake “News” in a “Post-truth” World | Building a Culture of Collaboration® In the wake of a contentious U.S. presidential election cycle, researchers and educators are shining a spotlight on critical “information literacy” skills. Determining authority, accuracy, and bias have long been essential aspects of analyzing content and sources of information. Today, this is no easy task for students (and adults as well) when authors of “information” do their best to deceive readers or hide their identity behind domains, such as .org, factual-seeming but phony statistical data, and authoritative-sounding language based on “pants of fire” lies. In her 2014 book, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, researcher danah boyd wrote, “becoming literate in a networked age requires hard work, regardless of age” (177). How long have school librarians been challenging students to determine the bias in Stormfront’s Martin Luther King Jr. Last week on LM_NET, school librarian Andrew van Zyl of St. • Consider the source. Works Cited boyd, dana. Valenza, Joyce.
Social Media Superstar Finalists Announced! Acknowledging the role social media plays in school library promotion, AASL has launched a new recognition program – Social Media Superstars. Nominated and endorsed by their peers, the program will recognize school library professionals who enrich the profession and its work on behalf of students by sharing information, expertise, ideas, encouragement, dialog and inspiration widely via a variety of social media channels. After an open nomination period, the Social Media Recognition Task Force is proud to announce the following finalists in each category. Through April 14, members of the school library community and the public are invited to post endorsements of their personal superstar by leaving a comment on each category’s post. After April 14, the Social Media Recognition Task Force will consider the endorsements and the original nominations and select an overall Superstar for each category. We want to hear from you! Sensational Student Voice Advocacy Ambassador Tech Troubadour
Internet Archive Search: creator: PURL domain: /creator Topic: purl_data_md "Creator" is an article from Poetry, Volume 15 . View more articles from Poetry . Cover Art Archive by The Lemonheads image eye favorite 0 comment 0 Link Creator from Udacity. Flag creator = psd Topic: Flag creator = psd by Hands by Temper2 Ourmedia by C Meyr movies Virtual interview is owned and created by C Meyr and is permitted to be used for noncomercial purposes with attribution Topic: noncommercial Topics: Creation, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Creature Creator (1983)(DesignWare)(US) Community Video by Creator أحمد المصرى مبدع Topic: Video1 Video2 Video3 by For the Imperium آشنایی با ابزار Painting Creator در نرم افزار corel video studio برای ایجاد لایه های مت وماسک جهت پروژه های نقاشی تدریجی-دستی در افتر افکت Topic: paintingcreator creator - orientale Jamendo Album #031931 Tracklisting: 01 - orien 1 02 - orien2 Please read the Readme.txt and License.txt files for important origin and licensing information. Tucows Software Library software by PC Help-Line
Web Evaluation: Does This Website Smell Funny to You? One of my friends spent this past weekend working with her 2nd grade daughter on a research project. While her daughter flew through the arts and crafts portion and was able to handwrite the “sloppy copy” of her presentation, she struggled when it came to typing the final draft. She didn’t know where the period was. She didn’t know how to use the shift key (and then declared that turning caps lock on and off was far superior and easier than using the shift key). This reminded me how easy it is to overestimate our students’ abilities when it comes to technology. One of my favorite things to work on with students in this area is website evaluation. When working with older students (8th through 12th grade), I’ve always relied on the CRAAP Test (pdf) from California State University Chico. As wonderful a tool as it is, the CRAAP Test has a sophistication (despite its name) that makes it inaccessible for the 5th through 7th grade. F: Is the site Friendly to the eyes? Like this: