The main idea presented in this video is not new. For me, Miles Maguire, associate journalism professor at UW-Oshkosh, first made the connection between blogging and the first American journalists. But this video says it very well. I am a journalist at heart (though never actually), and the fact that newspapers (metropolitan dailies) as we know them are dying worries me. I hope there is power and not just noise and discord in the voices of many.
The other thing I like about this little video is that it is a great exercise in compare/contrast, a skill my students have difficulty with.
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Carla
// Mar 29, 2009 at 4:28 pm
What a GREAT video! I have already forwarded it. Thanks, Dawn!
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Art
// Apr 3, 2009 at 11:43 am
Thanks, Dawn! I really enjoyed this. It is a good compare/contrast. It also made me look at blogs differently. I have studied that period of American history (a long time ago) and never mafde those connections. I am gonna pass this on to the social studies and English teachers at my school.
Happy Friday!
Art
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