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Comment on More takes on journalism schools for the future by knighta1949

knighta1949 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:20:35 +0000

You might be interested in Journalisms’ Futures
See: http://alanknight.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/journalisms-future/

Comment on Love doesn’t scale by antiphonsgarden

antiphonsgarden — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:05:33 +0000

As long moderation can be used to manipulate the comments to the expected results and that s a “normality of abuse” normative systematic issue of each unequal undemocratic voyeurist communication between a visible(commenter) and invisible(moderation)in “power”, the process will be a sound good bite pretending to care. Instead of “moderation” why not trusting into the human faculty to handle conflicts on their own without a “nanny”.If this tools ends in the hand of young inexperienced but career expecting people proud of their petty underpay job(and the “belonging” to the media “in group”) /little dominant position over other, the citizen “freedom of expression” in forum might remain a mannerist disaster full of “netiquette” attitudes, avoiding each intellectual deepness or healthy controversy out of lobby or marketing point scoring.A truly biased&twisted game.

Comment on About by Jerry Anderson

Jerry Anderson — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:54:22 +0000

Maurreen,

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Hope you find it helpful!

Cheers,
Jerry

Comment on How should journalism schools adapt? by How-to’s « News Atoms

How-to’s « News Atoms — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:07:36 +0000

[...] More resources are listed at the bottom of my post on “How should journalism schools adapt?” Published [...]

Comment on Integrating digital media throughout J-school by maurreen

maurreen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:11:24 +0000

Thanks, Robert.

The chat was enjoyable and productive.

I’ve heard of Lynda.com before, and I know it has a wide variety.

Another good resource, which boils things down, is Journalism 2.0 by Mark Briggs. It’s available as a book or download:
http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20/

I wonder whether anyone is consolidating lesson plans and syllabi or linking to them.

About syllabi — it would be helpful to current and potential students if more professors would make their syllabi available online — regardless of the course topic.

Putting more information online would set a good example all around.

And for the less-wired professors and schools, maintaining syllabi online could help them get more wired.

Comment on Integrating digital media throughout J-school by Robert French

Robert French — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:41:56 +0000

Certainly there are some who just don’t want to adapt and adopt, but for those that do … there are free and/or inexpensive alternatives.

There are syllabi online and I’m actually working on a set of 50+ lesson plans. Others are sharing their lessons, slide decks, notes and more.

Use of a site like Lynda.com, for instance, could serve any course seeking to address the technical aspects of working a CMS platform. I use it in one of my classes. I’m not affiliated with them in any way.

Lynda has hours of good Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and more. The HTML and CSS section is filled with hours of great tutorials, too. The list of software they cover is really kind of amazing. It is pretty up-to-date, too.

Faculty can gain that “get up to speed” knowledge, too. So, the issue of being unaware may be knocked out with some well spent time there.

Maurreen, my main goal was to determine if the majority of faculty and future employers believe that this areas need to be addressed. I think the employers feel that way, but not too sure about the faculty.

I appreciate your insights and hope this dialogue continues between faculty and media professionals. The dialogue is long overdue, IMO. Thanks!

Comment on How should journalism schools adapt? by Links about the business side of news « News Atoms

Links about the business side of news « News Atoms — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:52:20 +0000

[...] can be found in the business section of my post about how journalism schools might best adapt to changes. Published [...]

Comment on Someone else’s Knight proposal — “Includer” by maurreen

maurreen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:24:36 +0000

Andrius, thanks for your comments.

I’m sorry I haven’t answered sooner.

You have a lot going on at your site.

I have an idea related to Africa that possibly you would be interested in. I’ll post it in a bit.

Comment on Someone else’s Knight proposal — “Includer” by Andrius Kulikauskas

Andrius Kulikauskas — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:06:06 +0000

Maureen, Thank you for noticing our proposal! We have posted our full proposal here: http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?KnightNewsChallenge Meanwhile we’re taking steps to implement our idea and looking for other ways to fund our work.

I’m attracted to your idea for news projects in parallel? Perhaps you would like to pursue that at our lab? We have a list of endeavors http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors and some working groups that might be relevant such as Fighting Peacefully http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fightingpeacefully/ and Working In Parallel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workinginparallel/

Comment on Knight: mass tech collaboration by Knight: News Tech Collaboration « News Atoms

Knight: News Tech Collaboration « News Atoms — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:12:03 +0000

[...] have about 10 days left to finish my proposal for the Knight News Challenge. My basic idea is to bring together a number of technical people for a short time to make local-type news [...]