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I’m very late in promoting this workshop, but I think there are a few seats left.

 The Center for Innovation in College Media is offering a new media workshop March 29-31 in Nashville.  On tap are extended sessions on collecting audio, video and online journalism.  A fourth session includes breakouts.

I’m very excited that Angela Grant, a multimedia producer for the San Antonio Express-News will be there.  I’ve been following her blog, InTheCircle,  for a few months and can’t wait to attend her session.

I’m going with PJC journalism instructor Julie Ruengert and we are bringing one, possibly two, students who will still be with us in the fall.  They will help us boost our online efforts and mentor other students as we add our New Media Technologies course to our curriculum.

Note:  the workshop ends at 5 p.m. Saturday and the availability of flights out is limited, at least to the Pensacola area.  So the trip might include an extra night in honky-tonk heaven!

I haven’t posted much lately.  We’ve lost several editors this semester and between recruiting (begging, shaming, whatever it takes) and training new staff, I haven’t had much time for anything extra.  My news aggregator NewsGatoris full of posts from about 34 different sources and that is just a drop in the bucket compared to the more than 100 new media blogs in existence today.

I’m trying to read and bookmark as much as I can on del.icio.us and I’ll start posting some of the most interesting posts soon.  In the meantime, feel free to check out my del.icio.us site, realizing that it’s not very organized at this point.  You might want to look at the jclass section.  I’m using those bookmarks to give an introduction to online journalism to our feature writing and college publications classes.

If you haven’t heard of del.icio.us, it is what’s called a social bookmarking site.  It’s a huge favorites listing like what you might have in Internet Explorer, but with a twist.  Instead of organizing your favorites in a folder, del.icio.us uses tags.  So you can add as many tags as you want and find it again in several categories.  And you can access it from any computer because it’s web based.  I can go to the site from the classroom computer and all the web pages I want to show the class are right there.

Is anyone else using del.icio.us or something similar?  How is it working for you?

We’re testing this post as part of the Let’s Blog It class at PJC.  We will learn to post stories, add photos and hyperlink text.