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Print your own Newspaper

Posted on 25/02/2008 by Simon McGarr
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I’ve written before about Feedjournal, which takes RSS feeds and automatically generates a newspaper-like pdf from them. Well, it’s now emerged from Beta testing. It even collects and prints the images accompanying the stories. Another step towards the magical personalised … Continue reading →

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Blogswipes, Law and the Indo

Posted on 12/12/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Plagiarism is back in blog discussions again after another apparent piece of fat-fingered filching from Talbot street’s Indo group. I won’t be taking quite the same line as the McGarr Solicitors blog (as it takes in such lofty matters as … Continue reading →

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Critical Media Literacy symposium thoughts pt 2; Untangling education and training

Posted on 09/11/2007 by Simon McGarr
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I wrote earlier in the week about some of the speeches and reports at the mediaforum symposium on critical media literacy. I’d like to come back to that today with some more thoughts. I can’t promise that they’re better than … Continue reading →

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Mediaforum symposium thoughts part 1; Curriculum in crisis?

Posted on 06/11/2007 by Simon McGarr
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The mediaforum symposium on Saturday last provoked a couple of thoughts I wanted to get down before they faded away. Firstly, I greatly enjoyed listening to most of the conference participants. Given it was primarily a conference about education policy … Continue reading →

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Media Education Symposium in Cultivate this Sat. morning

Posted on 03/11/2007 by Simon McGarr
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I’ll be attending the MediaForum symposium (minus toga) “Media Literacy Education” in Cultivate on Saturday morning and giving a breakout session talk on using the Paper Round methodology in Post-Primary schools. It looks like it will be an interesting day. … Continue reading →

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Paper Round: WikiScanner and Missing an Open Goal

Posted on 17/08/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Now look, I like a good old fun-up as much as the next moderately fun person. So don’t get me wrong- the story of the someone in the CIA adding “Wahhhhhh!” as a preface to Wikipedia’s description of the Iranian … Continue reading →

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Events, dear boy, Events

Posted on 02/05/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Politics is not a horserace. And politicians, contrary to the misleading impressions given by some political correspondents, are not the primary deciders of their own fate. For months we’ve been treated to articles detailing poll results and trying to find … Continue reading →

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“A brief encounter that said it all”

Posted on 25/04/2007 by Fergal Crehan
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It is rare that a newspaper headline cannot be bettered, but the title of a front page story in this weekend’s Sunday Independent summed up the article so perfectly that no other words seem appropriate. First, the back story: The … Continue reading →

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McDowell: Newspaper Columnists ‘effete’,'purile’, ‘boring’

Posted on 28/03/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Brian Boyd reads the NY Times

Posted on 15/03/2007 by Simon McGarr
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A flash of Paper Round style genius from Kevin Breathnach of the Disillusioned Lefties as he compares and contrasts The Irish Times article on the death of fancy-dan theorist Jean Baudrillard to the one printed in the NY Times. It … Continue reading →

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