Science Week
More competitive musings in aid of Science Week and good clean fun. Today we turn our attention to the question:What invention do you most want to see in the future?Again, obvious answers crowd forward. A TARDIS (again).
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Critical Media Literacy symposium thoughts pt 2; Untangling education and training
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 the ones I had earlier, but they did take longer for me to come up with them.
Mediaforum symposium thoughts part 1; Curriculum in crisis?
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 - something I am a stranger to- this was an achievement in itself.
Media Education Symposium in Cultivate this Sat. morning
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. It starts from 10am, and runs until 2pm-ish.
Fustar.org is no more!
UPDATE: Good news. Where once there stood fustar. org, now gleams a stately pleasure dome that we may call fustar.
Not Watching TV
I don’t really watch much television these days. This week, I watched maybe five hours, an unusually high total, and one consisting solely of live football and rugby matches. Most nights I don't watch any.
The Future of Newspapers
(This article recaps and expands on my discussion on Newstalk's The Right Hook)Newspapers around the world are shrinking. In fact, with a few niche exceptions like the Economist, all print media are having troubles. The culprit, as usual, is the internet.
Wikiscanner: Department of Justice gets busy
Special bonus gold star to TJ McIntyre, who thought to look up the Wikipedia edits of computers in the IP range of the Irish Department of Justice. IP addresses within the Department of Justice have made some interesting edits:http://wikiscanner. virgil.
Newsbox: Automatic layout software already in development
Jeff Jarvis gets Proto-Newsboxed Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp Well, there was a great reaction to my Newsbox idea(s) on a personalised newspaper complete with context and location specific advertising. One of the issues raised in the comments was the feasibility of automatic layout for articles of varying length, along with their headlines etc.
NewsBox: A Future for Newspapers
Ever since I read Ireland's newspapers with a critical eye while working on the Paper Round Project, I've been thinking about the significance of what I found. Newspapers are mostly not delivering anything like the news I'd like to read. That's true of Irish Newspapers, but also of other papers around the world.
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