How important is Twitter for student journalists?

February 15th, 2008 by Dave Leave a reply »

More Press Gazette blogging…

I wrote on Wednesday about how using Dreamweaver is not, in my opinion, what online journalism students should be taught.

Andy Dickinson adds his thoughts in the comments, which you can read here.

It begs the question of, if we’re not to use Dreamweaver, what tools we should be using. Which is why I’d like to draw this interesting entry from Paul Bradshaw to your attention. He asked his students to use Twitter to log what they’re all up to – but he wasn’t happy with the results. He writes:

If you think 19- and 20-year-olds are au fait with Twitter, think again. Only one had used it before starting the class. And even afterwards, the journalism students I was teaching hardly hit the ground running.

In fact, in the ten days since my class, around half have not twittered at all.

Does this surprise me? Not even slightly. (Read more…)

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