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 [...]
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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