I've been trying for the past three weeks to have MT installed at school for the English Department's new blogging-enabled classes.
It's been one setback after another, and it's starting to feel like some kind of techno-conspiracy. I'm going to have to suck up and have it installed by the great Trott duo's company, but I feel that's akin to admitting failure.
I have one more idea....and I'm going to try it tomorrow...
This semester, three classes are using blogs in their classes, including the Visual Rhetoric Class
Edward Tufte explains why Powerpoint is Evil.
Didn't you secretly suspect this anyway?
This articleOJR article: Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat discusses the change in the role of Journalism due to the ease of information flow from ordinary citizens.
The article talks about the Santa Fe New Mexican's foray into online journalism and their interest in furthering their interactive news. They also talk about the upcoming Presidential Campaign site that will cover the election in new ways.
I think the state of journalism today, bloated with groveling organizations more interested in making money and retaining access then in telling the truth, illustrates quite nicely why citizen participation in the "news" process can only help.
The "Introduction to Multimedia" course at the Rochester Institute of Technology is the first MT-enabled course I've seen.
As seen on Shifted Librarian.