Education

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 [...]


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, [...]


Rethinking our Thinking

As someone who started out as a primarily “print” reporter, my mindset — and, more specifically, my thinking — as a journalist continues to evolve after nearly eight years in the field, starting as a high school sophomore. Computational Thinking visualized by Carnegie Mellon using Wordle. (Creative Commons) That made me wonder on Twitter: How [...]