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| A screenshot of the blog of CCMS |
After six long years I have started posting blogs again a few days ago, thanks to my colleague and room mate Reji. A web designer by profession, he is an avid social media enthusiast and a blogger. He gave a few good tips and now I am afraid I might become a blog addict.
It was Vijayakumar sir, former head of DCJ, who initiated me to the world of blogging. This blog was created way back in 2007 at the Centre for Convergence Media Studies (CCMS), Kerala University, under the Department of Communication and Journalism, Kariavattom Campus, and technically powered by C-DIT. CCMS was the brain child of V K sir.
Now, going through some of the posts, I could recollect VK's suggestions to make my blog a popular one. Looking @ the blog, then, V K said, "Athul, if you want search engines to list your blog, you should add certain key words in your text. For instance, you say that Attukal is near international beach Kovalam. So, if somebody searches Kovalam, he or she will probably see ur blog as well."
A futuristic person, V K sir used to talk a lot about Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Media Convergence and the like during his classes on reporting @ DCJ. I often wondered about his interests in new media despite being an elder person. I still remember his words that in the near future your watch or mobile would become a personal computer with data connection.
Though a faculty @ DCJ, V K sir was always busy with the work of CCMS, which was launched soon after my admission to MCJ course at DCJ in 2005. V K sir made a good speech followed by then DCJ head Subash Kuttan sir detailing V K's struggle for arranging the fund for CCMS. Later in 2006, CCMS hosted a seminar on New Media with lectures by eminent media personalities including Anand Parthasarathy. In the seminar that followed, Achuth Sankar S Nair predicted that text messages would change the character of languages in the near future. There was a debate but now it appears to be partly true.
One day, V K sir had asked all of us to come to CCMS and contribute some stories to the blog of CCMS. Honestly, we were hardly aware about what CCMS was all about. We were really surprised to see the class room. An air conditioned hall, with separate PCs - having latest configuration and broadband internet connection - for each student and an lcd projector. From the first batch students, we came to know that they are mainly learning web designing.
Now, after eight years, it is quite unfortunate to say that Kerala University had shut down CCMS. Whatever might be reason, I strongly feel K U authorities had totally failed to realise the importance of the course; market it properly or could not comprehend V K sir's vision in the correct sense.
By launching such a revolutionary course at a time when people of these part of the world were hardly aware about the scope of convergence, K U could boast off achieving a rare feat. But, definitely, KERALA UNIVERSITY would be blamed in the annals of history as a varsity, which killed the most innovative and farsighted course, perhaps, the whole state had ever witnessed.
(October 9, 2013)
It was Vijayakumar sir, former head of DCJ, who initiated me to the world of blogging. This blog was created way back in 2007 at the Centre for Convergence Media Studies (CCMS), Kerala University, under the Department of Communication and Journalism, Kariavattom Campus, and technically powered by C-DIT. CCMS was the brain child of V K sir.
Now, going through some of the posts, I could recollect VK's suggestions to make my blog a popular one. Looking @ the blog, then, V K said, "Athul, if you want search engines to list your blog, you should add certain key words in your text. For instance, you say that Attukal is near international beach Kovalam. So, if somebody searches Kovalam, he or she will probably see ur blog as well."
A futuristic person, V K sir used to talk a lot about Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Media Convergence and the like during his classes on reporting @ DCJ. I often wondered about his interests in new media despite being an elder person. I still remember his words that in the near future your watch or mobile would become a personal computer with data connection.
Though a faculty @ DCJ, V K sir was always busy with the work of CCMS, which was launched soon after my admission to MCJ course at DCJ in 2005. V K sir made a good speech followed by then DCJ head Subash Kuttan sir detailing V K's struggle for arranging the fund for CCMS. Later in 2006, CCMS hosted a seminar on New Media with lectures by eminent media personalities including Anand Parthasarathy. In the seminar that followed, Achuth Sankar S Nair predicted that text messages would change the character of languages in the near future. There was a debate but now it appears to be partly true.
One day, V K sir had asked all of us to come to CCMS and contribute some stories to the blog of CCMS. Honestly, we were hardly aware about what CCMS was all about. We were really surprised to see the class room. An air conditioned hall, with separate PCs - having latest configuration and broadband internet connection - for each student and an lcd projector. From the first batch students, we came to know that they are mainly learning web designing.
Now, after eight years, it is quite unfortunate to say that Kerala University had shut down CCMS. Whatever might be reason, I strongly feel K U authorities had totally failed to realise the importance of the course; market it properly or could not comprehend V K sir's vision in the correct sense.
By launching such a revolutionary course at a time when people of these part of the world were hardly aware about the scope of convergence, K U could boast off achieving a rare feat. But, definitely, KERALA UNIVERSITY would be blamed in the annals of history as a varsity, which killed the most innovative and farsighted course, perhaps, the whole state had ever witnessed.
(October 9, 2013)
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