While this is not explicitly a journalism class, it does have --
as I tell the students -- "journalistic DNA" in that is is about
collecting, processing, understanding, and presenting
information in a coherent narrative or story. The general focus
of the class is on multimedia storytelling, especially using
various elements of a nonlinear online presentation (text,
audio, video, still photos, multimedia combinations, curation)
to tell complete and coherent stories. That's a skill that
applies to modern journalism, public relations, and a wide
variety of other media communication practices. So, what I
decided to do for this month's Carnival was to crowdsource my
response, by holding a little blog carnival of my own within the
class. An ongoing class assignment is to write blog posts each
week about social media/digital media/digital journalism topics.
Generally the students are responsible for selecting topics of
their own posts, usually looking at sources such as Mashable,
GigaOm and the like for inspiration