Saturday, the Simpson Center sponsored an inter-disciplinary symposium on community and blogging. Notes from the conference (real-time - not true quotes, almost all is paraphrased even if it uses personal pronouns).
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Moving us more firmly towards next week’s topic (Blogs & Politics), I offer this latest installment from Brave New Films (Robert Greenwald).
Is it “political pornography”? Does it contribute to debate & consensus or dissent? Are the goals of activists (spur us to “action” 
at odds with the ideals of the public sphere? (Yes, these questions [...]
Multimedia: RSS In Plain English
Discussion Leaders: Student Assignments - 6 (Vanessa), 7 (Justin), 8 (Lisa)
Other websites: NowPublic, NewsCloud, Blogcritics
Individual Project: Comment on this week’s Newsvine column (was due Tuesday - see assignment below)
Group Project:
Kathy: Add students to blog as contributors
Review candidate list. If there is a candidate that you would like to review — [...]
Discussion Leaders: Student Assignments 5 (Ben), 8 (Lisa)In-Class Discussion:- How can journalists use the internet and other media to make their work more transparent? Can you think of any good examples of the way this is being done now?
- What is the most important role that blogging can play [in politics?]?
- In We the Media [...]
All Questions At 11.05. Colleen - no post; Justin - no questions; Matt - no post; Mineko - no post; no questions last week.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Just found this excellent guide to comments (good for readers and blog owners) at LifeHacker.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Citizen Journalism
Discussion Leaders: Student Assignments 3, 4
In-Class Group Work: Individually, review the summary of the presidential campaign project. In small groups, discuss. Summarize discussion (one comment per group on group project page): how might we select 13 candidates … expand the possible list of in-depth articles … develop a list of criteria for evaluating [...]
This week: Citizen Journalism
Discussion Leaders: Student Assignments 1, 2.
- What is a tip jar (TypePad, Politics From Left To Right uses Amazon)
- Is citizen journalism just another form of “alternative press”? Defend.
- Wiki - LA Times
Assignment: Read Newsvine columns (group into three’s - going in reverse this time) and post a comment by class [...]
From the National Writers Workshop in Hartford CT and Poynter. Examples:
Be a reader. Friedman quoted from “Reading Like a Writer,” by Francine Prose. “Writers learn from reading the work of their predecessors.”
Be curious, no matter what you’re writing. “Writing is having an innate curiosity about life. Even if you write fiction. You’re writing more than [...]
Discussion/reading starts next week. See requirements on assignments page. [Check to see that everyone knows how to create a PPT presentation.] Have students create account and upload presentation to Slideshare. Example. (Cross fingers and hope we can embed, but I doubt it. Typepad is looking good again.)
Example - combo links-and-commentary blog: ElectionLaw
Discuss newsvine columns
Possible class [...]
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