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Techies can also take a page out of the reporters' notebook, since liveshots are oftentimes on the blink. There is, however, ALWAYS a back up plan in the event the liveshot goes down.

Learn something NEW(S) everyday.

Listening skills Transform and open your classroom -make it into a newsroom. Students should have day-of-stories to cover, and integrate their courses.

Debrief and post mortem your lessons -- ask them what worked and what didn't.

Explain how the newsroom is laid out: News director, writers, producers, etc. Teach students how to ask the right questions

Have press conferences, weekly, so students come prepared for q & a ---keeps them on their toes. We have to be overly diligent with new media because of the amount of information available. Even before new media was out there, reporters (journalists) had to work in a paranoid light.

It was a revelation how similar our professions are: notetaking, reasearching, presenting, We are doing it anyway. Students can multitask - have a variety of projects going at the same time Pull in your librarian to help teach the information piece fact check, double check, and cross reference Live shots wait for no one. Librarians, Reporters, and Teachers, we're all the same Always have a plan B