Category: Education
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Pay No Attention To The Genocide Behind The Curtain
Salma Ghanem, chair of the University of Texas-Pan American communications department, writes in the Dallas Morning News: “Let’s hope journalism students aren’t learning from example.” She asks students in her introductory journalism class to define “newsworthy” and then delineates several “news values,” wondering aloud which values, if any, some of today’s most sensationalized stories are…
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Editing Wikipedia A Great Exercise For Students
Andy Carvin proposes Turning Wikipedia into an Asset for Schools. The simple idea: assign students a Wikipedia page to edit. They do their research and either verify the accuracy of the current page or make revisions, posting their concerns and citing their sources on the discussion page for the entry. Students get experience researching and…
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New Frontier Thesis
In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper called “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” at a meeting of the American Historical Association coinciding with the World’s Fair in Chicago. The fair was commemorating the Columbian spirit of exploration. (It was 1893, and no one was really into commemorating the spirit of conquest…
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Factiva Supports Firefox
Factiva now works in Firefox, thus making IE useless to me…at least until IE7 ships. via Steve Rubel’s Delicious linkblog which apparently only shows up in my aggregator and not on his blog. Neat. Previously…
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Logic Prevails
After his talk with management, Steve Sloan can now podcast his conversations with students all he wants, but logically enough, this should be happening off campus and not while he’s on the clock. Steve writes: “I have no desire to become a cause celeb or cause undo controversy. I appreciate the respect for my freedom…
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Ethics and Global Marketing in Venezuela
I’ve posted a paper I wrote on Venezuela for an Anthropology class this summer on my Other Writing page. I’ve done my best to keep this paper as balanced as possible, trying to show how the current political culture in Venezuela has defined how the nation interacts with American corporations in certain cases. I do…
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SJSU vs. Edupodder Update
For the record, I haven’t received any reply from Steve Sloan’s boss yet to the email I sent late last week. One of the two classes I’m in right now ends today, so starting tomorrow I’ll have a bit more time to make phone calls and do some good old fashioned shoe leather reporting. I…
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SJSU Spartan Daily: Now With RSS!
By the way, SJSU’s Spartan Daily now has an RSS Feed. It’s Summer, so there’s nothing there just yet. The Daily resumes publication on August 24th, so for now, paste that feed into your aggregator, hit your subscribe button, and relax. Ubiquitous little orange button forthcoming – my inner codemonkey (10 PRINT “my name is…
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I’ll Be Checking For Cluetrain Tickets Later
A quick note to anyone following the Edupodder Censored thread: I’m a Journalism student, and I fully intend to talk to his boss and find out what the rationale is for not allowing Steve to talk to students on his podcast. I will tell both sides of this story. If you’re the boss in question,…
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Information Overload Regeneration
If anyone knows a good zombie, send them my way: My Brain Is Full. Things I’ve Sort Of Been Paying Attention To: Adam Curry recorded the 200th episode of his Daily Source Code podcast (mp3) live on stage at Gnomedex, blasting a Paradise City/Sgt. Pepper mash-up which has inspired me to dump all my hard…