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Grading their blogs

I am seeing a number of student blogs. What's the advantage of a class blog vs individual blogs? Are you grading because a student blogs or what they blog?

Going beyond just attending lectures

I was wondering if any of you students took some extra steps beyond what was required of you in classes. Did you ask your professors for contacts? Did you spearhead a project? Have you developed an independent study course? Just trying to brainstorm some ideas to get even more out of this degree.

Do you Twitter? Do your students.

Do journalists & journalism students use social media tools like Twitter *less* than people in the general population, such as business people and business students? Help me research this by taking my short survey at: http://snurl.com/2abzwme and passing the link along to other journalism folks. Thank you so much. barbara i

Newhouse

I'm a Newhouse journalism graduate student at Syracuse University...just trying to get my degree in a few months and take on the real world. It's not always fun meeting the standards here, but I hope it's all worth it in the end!

Doctorate programs in the USA

Ok, maybe a bit off topic, but i need some help. I'm applying for a fellowship to get a doctorate degree in the USA , and i need to choose up to 5 universities in my application. So , which are the top 5 doctorate programs in new media journalism in the USA? Links will be appreciated.
 

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What news organization do you work for?
The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., USA
Which of these best describes your day job?
Copy Editor
About Me:
I don't use a cell phone. I don't have cable TV. I'm on dial-up. I don't even have a microwave.

But I do have a wiki!

And as of Feb. 5, 2008, I have a two-page Web site. It's not pretty, but it works.
Website:
http://maurreen.com
Blog:
http://newsatoms.wordpress.com
LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=7683336




Toledo-to-Rome longitudinal estimates by Michael van Langren, 1644, via Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

Journalism is my second career, after the Marine Corps and odd jobs (some were more odd than others). I started as a reporter in Apache Junction, Ariz. I've moved around a bit but have been at The N&O in Raleigh since late 2000. My duties there have next to nil to do with the Internet.

But I had a very small Web site around 2000. I started Journawiki a few years ago, but I slacked off because I got little help. I'm competing in the Knight News Challenge and learning SPSS, a statistics program.

My knowledge, technology and not, is often more broad than deep. My digital interests are less about storytelling and more about collaboration, interactive data and civic tools.

Maurreen Skowran's Blog

N&O alumni

I've started a Ning network for current and former employees of The News & Observer. It's at: http://nanders.ning.com/

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 at 12:45am — No Comments (Add)

WJ toolbar

I made a WJ toolbar. You can get it at: http://wiredjournalists.ourtoolbar.com/
What it has:
RSS feeds for
- Everyone's blog posts
- the WJ feedstream that is on the left side of the main WJ page
- recent WJ activity on news ticker
- Romenesko
Links to about half a dozen main WJ pages (Hopefully, this is set so that if you download the toolbar, you get a link to your specific WJ page.)
Search function,… Continue

Posted on February 15th, 2008 at 12:00am — 3 Comments (Add)

Group feeds

I've combined the RSS feeds for the visual journalism groups.

You can see the blended feed on my page, and you can get it here.

I used Feed Digest.

Feb. 5 -- I'm replacing the feed on my page with a WJ education feed made the same way. You can get it here.

In either case, if I overlooked your group,…

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Posted on February 4th, 2008 at 10:46pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Not in newspapers?

I'm curious about how many people we have who work outside of the newspaper field, such in magazines or broadcasting.

Posted on February 4th, 2008 at 10:20pm — 6 Comments (Add)

In case you're afraid of asking an ignorant question ...

I'll do it!

I don't know how to turn on the sound on my computer. It has Windows; I believe XP.

Posted on February 1st, 2008 at 1:04am — 3 Comments (Add)

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At 5:01pm on February 18th, 2008, Andria Krewson said…
Thanks, Maurreen.
At 7:27am on February 5th, 2008, Vera Alves said…
Hi Maurreen! Thanks for the comment. Yes I'm in the international group. Yes, maybe it's a good idea to create a Europe group but I really just hope to learn from everyone here, regardless of where they come from. :)

The regional groups for the U.S. were a good idea though (I don't know if you got the impression I didn't think so). I wish more Portuguese journalists would join this community too.
At 4:06pm on February 2nd, 2008, Jim Stovall said…
Maurreen, Thanks for the compliment about the graphics book. That book was a lot of fun to put together. Unfortunately, it didn't sell all that well, so you're one of the few who actually read it. All the best, Jim.
At 11:44am on February 2nd, 2008, Tish Grier said…
Hi Maurreen! was trying to find you yesterday but there are too darned many people in here ;-)
At 4:45am on January 30th, 2008, Angelea Preston said…
wow..thanks :-)
~Angelea
At 11:51am on January 24th, 2008, Ryan Gilchrest said…
Maurreen - Thanks for starting a McClatchy group. There are quite a few of us here.
At 9:16am on January 24th, 2008, Ryan Sholin said…
Welcome! Glad to see Raleigh in the house! I agree with you -- The ratio of Facebook groups I participate in to groups I'm a member of is about 1:100.
 
 

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