I’ve been given the opportunity to present what we do with web 2.0 technology in journalism class at a conference at MIT titled Media Literacy and 21st Century Skills.
I’ll be leaving a week from Friday for Boston and have been asked to boil down what we do at our school news site to a one-minute [...]
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Boiling it down to one minute
October 11th, 2009 · No Comments
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Best laid plans and all that
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tomorrow is the big day. Our news site launches for the first time with real content: articles, video, photos, polls, Twitter, Facebook, commenting, article ratings, etc… Yesterday I worked from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and today has been the same. It’s been a race to the finish with stories coming in at the last [...]
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The Achilles heel of technology? The user.
September 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Working at a technology-friendly high school for the past year has allowed me to embrace the wonders of many free web-based tools and use them in my work.
Starting with the basic Gmail service has led to an exploration of the Google suite of tools, of which I currently use Google Reader (to keep track of [...]
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Reality
September 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
I don’t want to say reality bites, which is the title of a really disappointing 1980s movie, and, actually, things are going pretty well in journalism class so far, almost one month into the school year and 10 days until we launch the online news site. I have 28 students, none of whom know what [...]
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