Google Glass is an augmented reality device similar to a pair of glasses and can take pictures, record video, live stream and search the web at the command of its wearer’s voice.

This fall, Ware said she plans to take her Glass into the classroom at MSU and work with students and other faculty members to find ways to use Glass in journalism.

The State News spoke with Ware about the project.

The State News: How were you selected for this project?

Jennifer Ware: (Google) sent a notification out on Twitter and Google and they said they were having a contest (asking), ‘How would you use Glass if you were part of our first user-based test group?’ And so I said that if I had Glass, ‘I would use it with journalism (students) to explore the future of new storytelling.’ The plans that I have includes letting students try Glass and (seeing) what they come up with. Does it change how we gather information from our sources? Does it change the way we approach telling a story?

What are some of the features of Glass you see journalists utilizing?

You can take pictures, you can live stream from the glasses, you can take video, start a Google Hangout … all of these things would be great for journalists to move a little more fluently through different spaces.

How do you see Glass changing journalism?

It would be really interesting (when the) eyes of the journalist become the lens that people get to see that news (through). … If you think about (how) journalists now are using their phones and iPads to live stream breaking news at different locations, and this would be in that same (realm).