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Description & Goals
The Report activity is designed for students to learn and actively participate in journalism.
The activity provides:
- A tutorial for outlining a news article
- A free writing mode
- The ability to include a photograph (later video)
- The ability to publish to an online blog (xotimes.org)
It is our goal that the software will be included as a core activity.
The larger goal is to provide children a voice in world events.
Visual Design
Source Files
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Activity Mockup (400KB) history | Zip file containing Adobe Fireworks mockups |
Screenshots
Development
Status
- This works for build 595 - The wordpress module is =in the ./wordpress directory and needs to be setup through ./wordpress/setup.py install - The install script works as per expectation: ./setup.py dev - The blog feature works to some extent, but it currently only grabs the text [The AbiWord module needs to be modified to somehow spit out data in a better format] - No implementation work has been done on the plan tab. - The username and password to the blog have been hardcoded to post to http://olpcjam.wordpress.com - There may be a beginner and advanced mode on the plan tab (TBD) - The launch date for v1.0 is November 30, 2007
Source Code
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~sjklein/Report.tar
Tutorial
Journalists are currently working on the tutorial content of the activity.
The content will be completed October 10, 2007.
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Current Tutorial (8KB) history | RTF Tutorial on writing a news article |
XOTimes.org
We intend to create a blog/news web site where the news articles will be published (a la CNN or Digg).
The site is up at http://www.xotimes.org, however it is currently hardcoded to a single blog.
Hopefully some of the more popular articles will get picked up by the mainstream press.
Some features we would like to have:
- Private Group Blogs
- Digging (voting) best articles
- RSS
- Podcasting
Grant
We have applied for a grant with the Knight Foundation. You can read our grant proposal below.
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Grant Proposal (8KB) | Grant Proposal |
More information can be found at http://www.newschallenge.org.
Team
- Dan Sutera, NYU
- dansutera at yahoo.com
- General / Grant / UI (Contact Person)
- Rajesh Ramakrishnan, Columbia
- rr2318 at columbia.edu
- Development
- Dan Lee, Columbia
- dtl2103 at columbia.edu
- Development
- Emmanuelle Collet, Journalist
- emmanuelle.collet at gmail.com
- Tutorial / Grant
- Andrew Ott
- andrewott1 at gmail.com
- Grant / PR
- Bob Stepno, aka Robby in xoLand, Radford University
- hoping to be helpful
- grant?
- teaching writing & reporting?
- rstepno at radfordDOTedu
- Owen Williams
- owen at ywwg.com
- Reader integration
- Lisa Williams
- lisa at cadence90.com
- SJ Klein, OLPC
- Lauren Klein, OLPC
- Brendan Ballou, Columbia
- Grant
- Nick Racuente, Swarthmore
- Coding
- James Levy, Northwestern
- Journalism
- IRC Chat
- irc.freenode.net at #fcolpc
Schedule
November 30:
- Functioning Report v1.0
- Functioning Website v1.0
History
More background on this project can be found at:
Journalism Jam New York/Results
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