Monthly Archives: February 2007

Update for 22 February

This entry was updated 22 February, 4pm. Note: If you have a pair of headphones or earphones that can plug into a computer, please bring them to our Thursday meeting. You will want them for dealing with audio. (A microphone … Continue reading

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Meeting for 15 February

On the agenda today: Project plans (content, site identity, platform, etc) HTML, CSS Online Tutorials Testing (NewsU, TOL) Checking audio software set-up, preparation for next week (equipment check)

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Testing Site Feed

Test message for site feed.

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Please Enroll with NewsU

The Poynter Institute is one of the prominent journalism training organizations in the United States. They have a project called NewsU that offers online training (much of it free) on many areas of the field. I will briefly introduce NewsU … Continue reading

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Reminder for 15 February

Please remember for next week: Proposal revisions are due; Read the J-Learning material on HTML, CSS and Forms linked at this J-Learning page. If you can, try to do these HTML tutorials; Please try to have a good idea about … Continue reading

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Reminder on Attendance and Submission of Material

Dear students: I see a need to remind people about policies on attendance and submission of material. To put it briefly, everyone participating in this course is required to attend all our course meetings and to submit all material on … Continue reading

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Meeting for 8 February

Thanks to the group who put together a final proposal for today. (Though really a proposal for something like this is never final; it’s just an evolving plan for a continually evolving project…) This group is now a bit ahead … Continue reading

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Final Proposal – “KIMEP Student Resources – on and off campus”

Final Proposal  “KIMEP Student Resources – on and off campus” Goal: To collect journalists work and assemble an online portfolio. These works would be our articles, photos, etc. which we are making during our study in journalism program and stories, which … Continue reading

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Meeting on Planned Tuition Increase

The KIMEP administration will hold an open meeting on a planned tuition increase today (Wednesday 7 February) at 15.00 in Great Hall. All members of the KIMEP community are invited to attend.

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Posting to the Weblog

I have noticed there are a number of entries (some of which look like they may be project proposals) saved as drafts on the site rather than actually being published. If you intend to save something as a draft, that … Continue reading

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Recommended Reading: Goodbye, Gutenberg

The latest issue of Nieman Reports, titled Goodbye, Gutenberg, features a series of articles on the impact of the internet and other new information technologies on the practice of journalism. I recommend browsing through these articles to get a sense … Continue reading

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Moving Forward with Project Proposals

I was pleased overall with the initial proposals people produced and with our discussion of them in the meeting last Thursday. I am also glad to see people looking for ways to collaborate on projects. There is nothing written due … Continue reading

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Eurasian Media Forum 2007

Some of you may be interested in the Eurasian Media Forum 2007, to be held in Almaty 19 to 21 April this year. The initial program topics listed on the website look promising and there are volunteer opportunities available (apparently, … Continue reading

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i would like to create a site for people who are interested in photography. its desigh will be pretty simple balck and wight in order to not extract the attention from the main things. on the front page people will … Continue reading

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KIMEP Times

Already spoke of this (KIMEP Times Online) but here is a quick outline of what we could possible do. Any ideas or comments about the paper are welcome Cheers, Noor

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Content Management Systems

A Content Management System (CMS) is a kind of software that helps people, well, manage content. For our purposes, I am focusing on web CMS’s, systems that make it easy (in theory anyway) for users to post content to a … Continue reading

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Site Proposal

Good day everybody! I think that our site must contain information for journalists, and have news from all over the world, as category “World news” and also “Central Asia news”, because in our group study also international students, for example … Continue reading

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SITE PROPOSAL [Assignment #2]

Goal:  To collect all our journalistic works and make a kind of on-line portfolio. These works would be our articles, photos and other stuffs, which we are making during our study in journalism program and stories, which would be written … Continue reading

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Site proposal

Audience Journalism students of Central Asian universities and journalists interested in online journalism and using informational technologies in their activity. Preliminary users are ‘Beginners’ and our aim is to rise up their level to ‘Power users’.  Purpose To create a … Continue reading

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