Talk:Learning activities/Journalism

It's great to see these tutorials become part of olpc. For visitors who aren't familiar with this material, it was started by veteran newspaper editor Jack Driscoll of the Boston Globe when MIT launched a community news web site for community residents in Melrose, Mass., long before the phrase "citizen journalism" came into use. While Jack was writing for older "novice journalists," he's a master of telling a story clearly and concisely, so this page should be very useful for teachers and older children...

For olpc xo users, some additions would be appropriate, especially as new tools are made available, possibly using the Speex and GStreamer audio for note taking as implied in the paragraph below.

For example, section 1.1 Research: Basic Tools --

You can take notes with the xo's keyboard, camera and sound recorder, especially if paper and pens are harder to find than a little green laptop. You can speak your notes into the built-in microphone, then play them to refresh your memory when you type your story. The xo is good at switching activities back and forth between listening and typing. You can also use the camera or draw pictures to take "notes" -- not just pictures you intend to publish, but pictures to remind you how to describe someone or something when you write the story.

A paragraph like that could be wikified on key terms, as could some parts of Jack's original. (I haven't taken time to find the correct link terms yet; this is just a demo.)

Any discussions on how else to "grow" this tutorial into a more olpc-world resource?
Robby 15:41, 8 January 2008 (EST)

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I got even more verbose about some of this on the OLPC Library mailing list today. I'll put a link to its archive here when I figure out how.
Robby 20:29, 9 January 2008 (EST)