Category Archives: learning

Education 2.0 | The Internet makes us the computer wearing tennis shoes

By Jared | Published: December 2, 2008
I’ve got a confession. I love the ’95 remake of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, the one with Kirk Cameron —not Kurt Russell. Having access to all that information just seemed really cool. For those unfamiliar, here’s a quick summary: This average guy, Dexter Reilly, zaps himself working on a state-of-the-art computer and suddenly he’s [...]
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Election day Soundslide

By Jared | Published: November 4, 2008
Being election day, I felt the need to get out and do something since I voted absentee a few weeks ago. Since I couldn’t vote again I decided to talk to the volunteers trying to get Temple Students to go vote. Kevin Inacker, the residential housing director for the Obama campaign at Temple, talked about [...]
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TNTJ: What I want to do in journalism — Covering the environment as a journalist who cares

By Jared | Published: October 12, 2008
This post is part of this month’s “Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists.” Each month a group of young journalists picks a topic to blog about, similar to “The Carnival of Journalism.” For October 2008, the TNTJ topic is What would your ideal journalism job be and why? I wasn’t always interested in journalism. In high school [...]
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Test on uploading Soundslides

By Jared | Published: September 25, 2008
Today I decided to work with Soundslides. The audio is not there yet, mostly because I haven’t gotten it yet. Basically I’m taking baby steps since I’m learning on my own. While I’m not working with a class on Soundslides, I do have some resources, most notably a series of posts by journalism Professor Mindy [...]
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Philadelphia Weekly article covers the “death” of journalism

By Jared | Published: September 4, 2008
As a student at Temple University I’m enjoying an abundance of daily and weekly publications, in fact there’s too many to read them all. The cover story for this week’s issue made me stop and browse through the little tabloid (and make me slightly late for my Design for Journalists class). “Journalism is Dead? Then [...]
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