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Any Env Sci teachers in the network?

Journalist Doug Fine lives "off the grid" in New Mexico - I bought the book...

"Student Journalism 2.0 engages high school students in understanding the legal and technical issues intrinsic to new and evolving journalistic practices. It is a project of ccLearn at Creative Commons, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in partnership with HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), the University of California, Irvine and Duke University. "

"The Coaching Commons was an online news source for executive, business and life coaches from January 2008 through March 2011. Check this site for archived coaching news, original reporting, and provocative reader commentary. The Commons relied on a network of professional coaches, journalists and readers to cover and discuss the coaching industry during this growth period. In addition, you'll find stories about the history of coaching and archived research articles."

An online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. * It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! * Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. * The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection. * No membership required. Visuwords™ uses Princeton University's WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.

The YouTube Reporters' Center is a new resource to help you learn more about how to report the news. It features some of the nation's top journalists and news organizations sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting.

The Periodic Table of Videos is a collaboration between the University of Nottingham's School of Chemistry and video journalist Brady Haran. We initially made videos about all 118 elements. We're now updating and improving those videos - but also making regular films about other aspects of chemistry and chemistry in the news! In 2010 we will be starting an extra series about molecules. For more information you can visit our main website at http://www.periodicvideos.com/

Shared on Twitter: Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update automatically so you're always sharing the latest available data. Here's an example of an embedded visualization:

Doug Fine's homepage "Farewell My Subaru"

for your journalism teachers

Great lesson plan and assessment ideas for teaching online newswriting from Knight Digital Media Center

for journalism advisers

Great resources for journalism educators all in one spot.

Teach your students to use their hand-held devices to capture and present news and personal stories.