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Updates from Poynter programming for journalists/journalism for programmers seminar
I’ll be gathering tweets and posting updates from the Poynter programming for journalists/journalism for programming seminar (see previous post) in this CoverItLive blog. Poynter #journprog seminar
Returning to Poynter: I’ll be attending the programming for journalists seminar
Next week — Aug. 25-27, to be exact — I’ll return to my native Florida for a great opportunity at the Poynter Institute: a seminar that aims to teach journalists about programming and programmers about journalism. From the description: Journalists will learn the programmer’s mindset, and programmers will learn how to see the world through [...]
SXSW 2011: +1 for “Why Journalists Need to Think Like Geeks” panel proposal
In sharing some SXSW links on Twitter yesterday, I mused about proposing a panel on rethinking our thinking and computational thinking. But — alas! — Blake Eskin, editor of NewYorker.com, proposed a session on Why Journalists Need to Think Like Geeks (thanks for the heads-up, Will Mitchell). Based on the description and questions (a few are excerpted below), [...]
STEM for kids, teens and me. And my sister.
Consider: …programming should be used as a means to introduce kids to ways of thinking and problem solving that will be useful to them in many different spheres of human endeavor. If in the process they get hooked to computer science and end up in careers involving programming, that would not be a very shabby [...]
Hacks/Hackers: How should we structure an online curriculum for journalists and technologists to learn together?
Howdy, I’m sharing this link/excerpt as I test the “Press This” WordPress tool, which I might start using to share interesting things a la Tumblr. On that note, check out my Tumblr, Greg Linch’s Commonplace Book. Also, check out my answer to the question below. Hacks/Hackers, Mozilla, the Medill School of Journalism, The Media Consortium, [...]
