Crisis reporting captures real-time disasters and produces uncut footage and information as news happens. Student reporters Grace Muller and Melissa Quijada live blogged the session in real time. Using an iPhone4, Lauren Santa Cruz covered the session as a visual reporter would cover a disaster, shaky video and all. These techniques emulate how journalists would report amid international disaster and chaos. The top of this post shows their coverage. The students analyze the results HERE.

Check out this cool course (available via text, video or audio) via @andybull on how to use smartphones for reporting.

Here is a pretty cool Google Docs slideshow on using smartphones to report by Tiffany Campbell, producer, lead for web enterprise, seattletimes.com.
Some highlights from the slideshow:

• Slide 12: An iPhone photo was used for A1 by the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
• Slides 24-32: Livestreaming via smartphone
• Slides 35-37: Using Posterous for mobile blogging
• Slides 39-41: Mobile mapping
• Slides 46-59: Mobile apps for journalists (I'm sure Ian will like seeing Google Voice on Slide 59)
• Slide 60: Downsides to mobile reporting
• Slide 61-62: If you cannot read the whole slideshow - be sure to check out these two summary slides
• Slide 64, 67-70: Tiffany shows great tripods for smartphones - I'm gonna try to get one of these for our newsroom right away!
• Slide 65-66: Super-helpful battery pack list