Eyesontherise.org‘s Susan Jacobson writes for emergemiami.com about developing an app related to flooding in South Florida, as part of our project’s efforts to make data about sea level rise meaningful for public dissection. The piece focuses on her own experiences with flooding, which led to a larger group of South Florida students, technology professionals, and[…]
Multimedia Production students examine the visual and hidden effects of sea level rise in South Florida and what it means for the future. Another locally produced film about a changing Miami — this time in the Wynwood Art District. The film reflects how, within language of development and opportunity, parts of South Florida have already[…]
A dozen MAST @ FIU and FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communication students served as the social media team during a lecture given by The Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron this week (Nov. 19). The Hearst Distinguished Lecture event was co-sponsored by PBS MediaShift. See the discussion at @OurSJMC and #sjmc_hearst. But what’s[…]
Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, through the eyesontherise.org project, is sending its faculty and students back to high school.
SJMC graduate Melissa Mendoza, on Nov. 7, spent a morning with journalism and yearbook students at MAST @ FIU, a public high school that meets at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. The collaborations continue activities between the two schools that have been backed by a grant from the Online News Association.
Below is text related to the required October Interim Report for the Online News Association, which we submitted on Oct. 28, 2014. Take a look!
Explain how you are testing your hypothesis for your live news experiment. Be specific.
Our hypothesis for this project is that “crowdsourcing and community engagement will increase viewership and participation in public discussion related to rising seas.” We are currently working on the second part of that hypothesis – increasing community and media participation in public discussion about sea level rise in South Florida. We are testing this component of the hypothesis through collaborative classroom engagement between School of Journalism and Mass Communication students – including students majoring in Broadcast and Journalism, Digital Media Studies, Advertising and Public Relations – and 190 high school students who attend MAST @ FIU, which is based at Florida International University.
Intrigued, in part, by student journalism related to sea level rise produced for eyesontherise.org at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 20 other SJMC students in two production courses have created a 30-minute news program related to local water issues.
H2KNOW — the first of two student productions that will be produced in the Fall semester by students in courses led by professors Moses Shumow and Lilliam Martinez-Bustos — featured eyesontherise.org along with packages on local water quality and the efforts of MAST @ FIU high school students who are coming to better understand their environments by using water sensors and citizen science.
“Working on the H2Know project was an incredible opportunity that allowed us to dive into an issue that literally surrounds us everyday, especially here in South Florida,” said SJMC student Stephanie Mason. “Whether for drinking, transportation, or being the host to other ecosystems, water is truly the elixir of life and is a matter that must always be taken into account.”
Hundreds of high school and college students spent two days on Miami Beach this month, testing flood waters as part of the eyesontherise.org project that’s designed to “hack” journalism curriculum.
The events were part of the Florida International University School of Journalism and Mass Communication‘s way to develop community journalism about important environmental issues such as sea level rise that also pushes the boundaries of how journalism is taught.
Here’s the low-down:
Students began the training for testing flood waters with a Sept. 29 event. More than 220 people attended at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. The rally included Lily Bui, a graduate student at MIT, who shared with students major ideas behind sensor journalism. The day’s events ended with a workshop on communicating issues of sea level rise and climate change, hosted by The CLEO Institute.
Dozens of SJMC and MAST @ FIU high school students spent Oct. 1 and 2 working with their coqui sensors. Built from scratch with the help of Don Blair and Public Lab, students were able to understand the engineering behind the sensors that test for, among other things, water salinity.
A dozen FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communication and MAST @ FIU students tested standing water at 17th and Alton in Miami Beach on the first of two of the King Tide Days Oct. 8.
Using coqui sensors that buzz to help measure the level of salinity in samples, the journalism and science students prepared for Oct. 9 when more than 120 people from FIU and MAST @ FIU take to Miami Beach to test any waters that seep onto the streets.
