Post 2 of 3: narrowing down publishing choices for AR

After some confusion on my part about publishing or presenting my AR project, I blogged last time about presenting it. My natural tendency is to present, not publish. So since I did the presentation part of the project in the publishing arena, I need to back track and look for places to publish. Here are some ideas that I have researched.

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijamc
This is from the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication. Their journal emphasizes research in multimedia technologies, how it’s used, e-learning and protocols used in technology. This is probably not a good place as the emphasis seems to be on engineering and technology.

Another natural journal to consider is “Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media.” It is an online journal that has a variety of research that has a lot of international subjects involving media in other countries.

“New Media and Society” was another suitable journal. Articles seem much more in tune with my paper as topics range from citizen journalism to using social media. http://newmediaandsociety.com. References must be done Harvard style, so I would have to reformat this paper and I also don’t know what it means to provide names of referees.

wk3--publishing/leadership project part 1 of 3--ideas for publishing

Fortunately, I have presented ideas and sessions several times to large groups--at state conventions and even at national conventions. So the idea does not make me nervous. What bothers me is finding an audience that makes sense for my AR project.

The audience that would most likely be interested in my research would be other journalism teachers who are interested in convergence media. Some obvious places where this information might be well received:

JEA (Journalism Educators Association) national convention--they have two conventions each year;
TAJE (Texas Association of Journalism Educators)--state convention each October;
TCEA (Texas Computer Educators Association)--state convention each February;
SXSW(South by Southwest) Interactive (technology-related conference in Austin, TX)

If the project was to be published, I would consider “Journal of Computing in Teacher Education” or as it is now known “Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education.” But after looking at a variety of these journals, I am not sure that my project pertains to the audience of these journals. It also may be not be academic enough as it really has to do with a variety of media trends.

BP8_2009112_Web2.0-2

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

http://www.survs.com/

One of my AR tasks will involve conducting a survey that will more than likely take place online. I will either do a national survey of journalism educators or a more local survey of our local community/city. Either way, a substantial amount of responses is needed and expected, so I thought I would check out two such survey applications.

One is Surveymonkey that most of us of have heard of and the other was one is Survs that was recommended to me by Dr. Deason in our last class. For any average survey needing quick and easy responses, you can use both websites for free after creating an account.
Both do the following: up to 10 questions per survey
responses gathered through weblink or email;
view live results

After that, it depends on what you are looking for--for free.

Surveymonkey allows you up to 100 responses per survey, a survey completion bar, 15 survey themes to choose from;
Survs: 200 responses, 8 themes to choose from.

Beyond that, paid accounts for $19.95 per month for SurveyMonkey gives you 1000 responses, unlimited questions, a “thank you” page, and most importantly, ways to download and filter results into useable forms like spreadsheets and charts.

Survs is $19 per month 2000 responses, unlimited questions, same other features as SurveyMonkey.

I created a Survs account because it does allow for more free responses. I logged in to find a video tutorial on the front page after logging in.

http://www.survs.com/app/1/wa/welcome?wosid=1Xt9iZzAytJobbPFcWjfuM

After that, it was just a matter of inputting the types of questions I wanted, selecting a theme and how I would distribute it. I look forward to trying it out.