BSU Online Journalism Students "Live" Blog iPad2 Launch Event

Bowie State University students in the Department of Communications' Online Journalism class simulated live blogging the iPad2 launch event. The students viewed a clip via http://www.apple.com/ of Steve Jobs' launch of the Apple iPad 2 in March. The students watched the clip projected on a video screen while seated at their PCs and "live" blogged the event. The students then uploaded the posts to their blogs they created earlier in the semester. The exercise was a mash up of traditional reporting, online writing and on-demand delivery. This is more evidence of the blurring of the line between legacy and online journalism.

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Bowie State University students continue to make their presence known in the blogosphere through new posts on their personal blogs. The wide variety of blogs created by the communications majors reflect the students' personal interests and their mastery of the online world.

In this age of media convergence, students must not only possess traditional journalism skills but new media skills as well. Those skills include blogging, shooting video, editing digital photographs, understanding how online journalism is produced and establishing their presence on the Web.

"Aspiring journalist must have three parts to thier game," said Prof. Karima Haynes, who teaches an online journalism course at Bowie State. "They must have the traditional reporting skills; a command of grammar, pinctuation and spelling, and the new media skills necessary to compete in the global media marketplace."