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Archive for June, 2007

LATimes Provides OhMyNews Update

Monday, June 18th, 2007

A Los Angeles Times story provides an update and a good overview of OhmyNews, South Korea’s citizen written online newspaper, here is a key part:

After making a big splash during South Korea’s 2002 presidential elections, the company lost money last year on revenue of about $6 million, most of it from ads. Its readership, as [...]

PJNet Summer Begins, Light Blogging

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I am thinking my blogging activity will decrease a bit over the next two months, but one never knows. A couple of worthy ideas are percolating so who knows. But in keeping with my light blogging theme here are some photos I shot last night in New York City of the Brooklyn [...]

Presidential Horse Race Coverage in Full Run

Friday, June 15th, 2007

One of the early public journalism critiques was that elections were covered like horse races. Who is ahead, who is behind, leaving the idea of issues like poverty and health care almost as an after thoughts. Jay Rosen was one of those early critical voices. Now he is a back with the same critique as [...]

Wikis: Day Four of Blog2Learn Workshop

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

We just got finished Skyping in Gordon Brune, a 5th Grade Teacher at Mamaroneck Avenue Elementary School in Mamaroneck, New York (USA). This is his 15th year teaching. He uses Blogmeister and loves it, but, like the rest of us, thinks it needs a better linking system and photo upload system, but David Warlick, runs [...]

Teaching Teachers How to Do Podcasting

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Julie Warner, a 10th-grade English teacher at Marietta High School and pictured here in pink, is doing a Podcasting demonstration for our Blog2Learn teachers.
She has developed a helpful site for teachers who want to learn the fundamentals of Podcasting. She has a video from Podgrunt which gives a nice introduction to what a [...]

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