SyndicateMizzou Video Podcast

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - The Amish and Technology

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:41:10 GMT

American mainstream misunderstanding of Amish communities, particularly their institutional rite of passage called rumspringa and their rules for the use of technology.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Technology, Tracking, and Habitat Maps

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:45:22 GMT

Gompper discusses using radio telemetry, infrared cameras, and track plates as non-invasive techniques for tracking various animals.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - What Brought McKean to Convergence

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:03 GMT

McKean talks about his background in journalism and what inevitably brought him to become chair of the newly created convergence sequence at the Missouri School of Journalism.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - Defining Convergence Journalism or Media Convergence

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:17 GMT

McKean describes the process of starting the convergence sequence, and what needs to be done to expand the program.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - The Mindset of Creating the Convergence Sequence

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:29 GMT

McKean explains how the new journalism sequence was created in 2005. He says convergence teaches the “best ways to teach digital media skills to our students.” After looking at the strengths and failures of other journalism sequences (for example, magazine, photojournalism, news editorial, and broadcast), McKean and his colleagues were able to construct a curriculum that would introduce all sorts of media skills and apply those to reporting, editing, and producing.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - The Convergence Curriculum

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:42 GMT

The convergence sequence is broken down into classes, each introducing essential skills for a convergence journalist. The classes range from a basic fundamentals course introducing convergence to reporting, editing, and a capstone.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - Backpack Journalist

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:56 GMT

McKean explains the concept of the backpack journalist, an all-in-one journalist who can do anything without the help of others. “The backpack journalist idea is one notion of how convergence works;” however, he proclaims, “nobody can do everything equally well, and nobody can go out on any given story and do everything and come back with a really compelling story.” A major part of the convergence sequence is to prepare students to be able to work in many different mediums of storytelling, but also to understand the importance of teamwork.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - MU Convergence Reporters Are Getting a Taste of the Real World

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:10 GMT

Unlike students in other sequences at the Missouri School of Journalism, convergence students work for media outlets across the country, including CurrentTV, MSNBC, and ESPN.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - Convergence on a Global Level

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:26 GMT

In recent years, McKean has helped universities in other countries start their own journalism sequences. He says the experience has opened his eyes up to the barriers to journalism in other countries and what other institutions must do to clearly report news and information.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - Why is the Convergence Sequence Growing?

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:42 GMT

McKean says because of the current technological age, many young journalists have grown up with multimedia platforms (such as facebook, cell phones, and blogs), and there is an unconstrained desire to implement many of those media with the news. “I think students that are coming to us now do not want to be shackled by one way of telling stories, ” McKean says.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - The Value of Storytelling with Convergence

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:55 GMT

McKean says a journalist who can tell a story in multiple media bridges the gap between the audience and the reporter. “They have to interact much more closely with the audience and not just assume that they are passive receptacles for the content that we create,” McKean explains. “There are multiple correct ways to tell the story depending on the story itself and the content that is available to tell it.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mike McKean - How Newsrooms View Convergence Journalists

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:59:07 GMT

For many newsrooms, convergence is still a new idea being tinkered with on a daily basis. “They are increasingly realizing the need to have reporters with a convergence mindset. That is just a practical survival instinct,” McKean says. “But it is still difficult to try to do all of those things, and do them well, in an environment."

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: So-Yeon Yoon - Virtual Reality (VR) Research

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:19:37 GMT

Because of her lifelong interests, So-Yeon Yoon was drawn to the field of architecture and interior design. It was “a perfect match,” one in which her creative desires and her interest in computers could merge. Today, this assistant professor of Architectural Studies teaches focuses her research and teaching on the areas of Human Environmental Psychology and Interior and Architectural Design. Yoon’s current research combines information technology with interior design and architecture. That is, she applies technology, particularly virtual reality (VR), to interior design problems.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: So-Yeon Yoon - Information Technology and Architectural Design in the Furniture Industry

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:19:53 GMT

Yoon’s work combines architectural and interior designs with information technology. Applying the latest computer initiatives, Yoon studies how technology can assist people–for example, by improving their decision-making process.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: So-Yeon Yoon - Virtual Reality Technology

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:20:08 GMT

Yoon recently published _Impact of Desktop Virtual Reality on System Usability: A Case Study of Online Consumer Survey Using a VR Integrated Decision Support System_ (2004). The book offers basic knowledge about VR technology and focuses on the dimension of human-computer interaction. For example, she addresses the utility of VR software, how users actually interact with the tools, and what kinds of advantages can be expected when adopting this technology.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: So-Yeon Yoon - Teaching at MU

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:20:25 GMT

Yoon teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Architectural Studies. Her courses tend to focus on emerging technology (including Interior Design, Visual Design, Computer Graphics and Design, Photoshop, 3-D Computer Animation, and Web Graphic Design). Asked how she manages to stay at the cutting edge of technology, Yoon replies that she relies on her students: “Teaching is an essential part of my research, because I can use my students’ help.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: So-Yeon Yoon - Using Virtual Reality for Online Learning

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:20:59 GMT

Education is one area in which virtual reality holds great potential. “Some people don’t have access to the real world, but they can take advantage of this virtual environment, which is generated in 3D,” Yoon explains. That means students can meet in the Louvre Museum in Paris, and walk around the buildings and study the art. Because the program employs a multi-user-based system, students can interact with each other in a virtual world. “So we are exploring the possibility of using that technology to deliver our studio courses,” says Yoon, who someday hopes that students will be able “to create and critique in a virtual environment without actually meeting the person face-to-face.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: SyndicateMizzou - Cooperative ventures between CSOT and CeR

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:27 GMT

John Miles Foley explains how the two centers—the Center for the Studies in Oral Tradition (est. 1986) and the newer Center for eResearch—are cooperative ventures: “All of our activities at both centers have in common the philosophy of sharing intellectual content (knowledge, art, ideas) across barriers…to make it as easy as possible for everyone in the world to participate.”