Oops, I remembered.
Backing up one year in time to June, 2012, I attended the Poynter Institute's "Teachapalooza," hate the name but love the result. Without it, I honestly don't know how I would have integrated new media into my classes. I guess I would have had to tell myself that sticking with the basics of good writing and good shooting is mostly what matters. Well, I would have been right, but I also would have been "blind, deaf and dumb," but no pinball wizard. In other words, to ignore how young people and now middle-aged people are engaging media would have been negligent. At Poynter, I learned about things like Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, screencast-o-matic, glifs, owlys and other attachments to turn my smartphone into a news-gathering miracle. I also gained the courage to require students to use their smartphones and Facebook to shoot and publish news. The instructors at Poynter convinced me to tell the students to do it and they would figure it out. I didn't have to be the master of new media to require new media in my courses. That was my first year at Poynter, summer, 2012. My second year at Poynter, June 2013, I attended the "Backpack Journalism" seminar to learn about shooting video with DSLR cameras, Canon 5Ds, and editing video with Adobe Premiere. To prove I have no shame, click on the link.
Shooting video with a "still" camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3aMyvw3IoE
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