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Archive for June, 2007

Day Three of Blog2Learn Workshop

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Our teachers are really into our Blog2Learn weeklong workshop at Kennesaw State University for Language Arts teachers from Cobb County and Marietta City schools in Georgia. Have a look:
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News From Frontlines of Online News Publishing

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Here is an email I received the other day from R. Gregg, editor of the startup Raleigh (NC) Chronicle, and I thought I would share it with the PJNet.org:
First email said:

I have enjoyed the discussion of online news operations on your website and just wanted to comment since we currently run print and Internet operations.
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Blog2Learn Workshop for Teachers Today

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Today starts the five-day Blog2Learn workshop for Language Arts teachers in Cobb County and the Marietta City schools in Georgia. This is the second year that Kennesaw State University professors Michael Keleher, Dr. Earl Holliday and I have received an Improving Teacher Quality grant via No Child Left Behind for this project. It will extend [...]

Suffering from Cuts: Invest and Try Dose of Public Journalism

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

John Robinson, editor of the Greensboro News & Record, blogs about the 41 layoffs at his newspaper, including 11 full-timers and seven part-timers in the news room.
One of his remedies to help right his newspaper in the future sounds a lot like Public Journalism:

Community building — In addition to technology and journalism, our experience with [...]

Kiva.org: A Great Place to Help Save the World

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Gary Roberts, a professor in Kennesaw State University’s Management and Entrepreneurship program, turned me on to what is now my favorite site on the Internet. It’s Kiva.org. Once you go there it will be hard not to give away your money. Actually you are not giving it away, you’re just lending it out with the [...]

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