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Links for 2008-11-28 [del.icio.us] Posted: 29 Nov 2008 12:00 AM CST Participatory Media Literacy / Participatory Media Literacy Dr Mashup or Why Educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix OER Commons Welcome to the Carnegie Commons The Teaching and Learning Commons is an intellectual community space provided to enrich and encourage exchange of knowledge about teaching and learning. To participate in this collective effort, you are invited to: * create representations of effective teaching practice * share these representations with the community * read, understand, and comment on others' work * build on the work of other community members * based on what is learned, re-create new representations to contribute to the commons. Tech talks at Google Convert pdf to word - Convert pdf to doc - Convert online pdf to word Poynter Online - Unmuddling Middles any reporters write strong leads, back them up, and finish their story with an ending. But the middle "has no recognizable sequence of ideas, no flow of cause and effect, and no narrative, just puddles of information," as Roy Peter Clark and I complained in our latest edition of "Coaching Writers," on page 107. Many editors struggle to bring some structure to their writers' middles, or just give up and publish these sagging arches. How can reporters create strong middles, and how can editors help them by coaching? Reporters fail to write organized middles for two reasons: j-schools and lack of know-how. Many journalism schools still teach the inverted pyramid as "THE form" despite all the evidence showing readers cannot understand them. Few journalism schools teach the most effective form of explaining things in words, the stack of blocks