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There are plenty of articles and discussions on…
Looks like this could be really cool (like hackerschool bu for data —expensive, but looks like scholarships are available).
“VII Photo Agency is pleased to announce a call for submissions for membership. Membership will be offered only to photographers working with the highest standards of journalistic and documentary integrity, who will extend the breadth of work we currently produce and who we believe can work within the management structure of VII. Deadline for submission: April 26, 2013.”
A series of them. (Chicago).
Just for fun – quick image upload from the Russia trip as Erica and I tour the Эрмита́ж. It really does look like that.
Nice piece by PBS. Coding takes a new direction as a radical form of art. Processing, and more.
Reminds me of the great work Carlos Garcia at Groundworks Media Lab is up to in Detroit and Ann Arbor this year.
When people ask what learning analytics is, I often say: It’s like Moneyball for teachers and students
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-Timothy McKay, University of Michigan physics professor, open data enthusiast, and our Leaning Analytics fellowship lead.
What I’m talking about when I’m talking about Learning Analytics at Michigan.
And now, a burst of color.
Sometimes when thick in the data weeds, it’s refreshing to take a look at the front-end. This is the mockup for the course recommender system I’ve been working on this semester with the amazing Learning Analytics team at the School of Information.
The semester is wrapping up, and the pieces of this project will all come together soon. And that will indeed be a good thing. Excitement grows.
I think journalism schools should have workshops for young female reporters on managing old men who have no game and think, because you’re listening to them intently and probing what they think and feel, that you’re romantically interested, rather than conducting an interview,” says Garance Franke-Ruta, a senior editor at The Atlantic. “Every female reporter I know has had this issue at one time or another.
— -House of Cads: The Psycho-Social Ordeal of Reporting in Washington
I love House of Cards like most people don’t love House of Cards. But it’s important to remember the very real, very pertinent stories of female reporters (not only in Washington) that don’t make it into the mostly male minds of Hollywood screenwriters, nor to the Netflix Presents screen.
For me, international journalism was my gateway drug to caring very deeply about information access and particularly internet censorship internationally.
Or, at least that’s what I told someone last night — as soon as I said it, I realized it was true.
Notes from the Russia trip, in which I was able to gather some reflections from policy makers and young people regarding the recent internet blacklist law soon.
-Maura
