Online - Archived Chat: How Do I Teach Online Comment Moderation. In this week’s educators chat, Logan Aimone, executive director of the National Scholastic Press Association, discussed how college media staffs (and even high school staffs) are dealing with user comments on their Web sites.
In an e-mail, Aimone mentioned that comment moderation is a concern not just for mainstream news organizations but for college media organizations. He said he’s noticed sites handle comments in different ways. Many sites allow unmoderated comments and varying levels of anonymous conversation on their site, while others turn comments off altogether. One trend in college media has been to use Facebook as a means to channel conversation. Online - Top Stories. Carol Marbin Miller has six long, deep drawers filled with child death cases.
“And each one is as bad as the one before it,” she said in a phone interview with Poynter. Since the mid-1990s, Marbin Miller has covered Florida’s … Read more. GuruCampus - The College News Source. Purdue University Adds Twitter and Facebook to Class Participati. Students at Purdue University are experimenting with a new application developed at the school called Hotseat that integrates Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging to help students "backchannel" during class. People who have attended technology conferences in the past several years are already familiar with this phenomenon, where social media is leveraged to allow the participants in a session or panel to comment and exchange questions and ideas in real-time.
At Purdue, Hotseat is used to allow students to comment on the class as it proceeds, with everyone in the class including the professor able to see the messaging as it happens.The Hotseat software allows students to use either Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or SMS to post messages during classes, or they can simply log in to the web site to post to and view the ongoing backchannel.