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bedstuyguy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:27:22 +0000

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Maps 2009

bedstuyguy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:55:02 +0000

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Joyner Ol’ School

bedstuyguy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:33:18 +0000

China Trip Reveals Ancient Wonders

bedstuyguy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:56:50 +0000

China is an amazing place, rich in history and culture.

Testing Maps

bedstuyguy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:46:53 +0000

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Spring 2009 – Your Maps

bedstuyguy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:23:08 +0000

Sean Brown
Story: http://tinyurl.com/demmyt
Map: http://tinyurl.com/dfwsportsvenues
Story talks about the demolition of Reunion Arena.
Map shows different locations of sports venues in DFW including Reunion.

Courtney McCarson

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/041009dnmetcarjacking.3d66173.html

http://www.yourgmap.com/view_map/43750

Stan Ascher

http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/9_13m_Thursday_ss__Grassfires.html

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Read the latest news and events in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex at

http://www.pegasusnews.com/

Check out UNT’s page on Palesta.net http://www.palestra.net/schools/1816″

Aaron Zapata
Here is the link for the gmap page.

http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/3_13m_Crimes_Sites.html

Here is the link to the actual article (ignore the last two stories, I didn’t use them.)

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_Blotter_0413.ce580646.html

Here are some interesting links I found to go with the story.

A Map of the most common pizza theft sites in the U.S.

http://maps.google.com/maps?gbv=2&hl=en&ei=wtjjScydBM3znQeZ4MifDg&resnum=0&q=Sites%20of%20Robberies&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

Here is a short story from my hometown, Tyler

http://www.cbs19.tv/global/story.asp?s=10113399

This is from Foxnews.com.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381402,00.html

Here is the video to that story (the link on the website is bad)

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Pizza+Robberies&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

Here is another video that I liked that gives more perspective.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Pizza+Robberies&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

Here are my map and story link.
Thanks,
Chelsea Sandridge

http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/l_13l_North_Texas_Wildfires.html

http://www.star-telegram.com/231/story/1310570.html

Byron Randolph
Rain to help Oklahoma and Texas Fires
Officials hope expected rain will stop blazes

Story URL: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/04/11/southwest.wildfires/index.html#cnnSTCText

My GMap URL: http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/5_13l_Online_Journalism.html

Sheena Mabin
Montague County fires story-http://www.wfaa.com/video/wfaageneral-index.html?nvid=351048&shu=1

Montague County maphttp://maps.yourgmap.com/v/q_13m_Wildfires.html

J3340 – Online Journalism Elections Project

bedstuyguy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:10:16 +0000

Here’s an overview of your Online Journalism Political News Project.

You are expected to write a 500 – 700 word story that demonstrates your ability as a reporter and writer. You’ll be expected to integrate interactive elements, including links, photos and/or video, if possible. I’m challenging you to create a story that will be compelling to readers. Talk to experts, real people. You must go beyond any personal analysis. Back it up with interviews and credible sources.

It is possible that your story will be posted on the NTNewsNet.com website, and possibly in the NT Daily so please make it clear that you clearly relate to you sources that this story may be published.

Requirements:

* 500 -700 word story

* Video segments minimum 1 minute, but you must include a summary of the story in words to post along with the story.

* Audio/Video slideshows: No more than 2 minutes.

Online Journalism – NTNewsNet – Political Coverage

bedstuyguy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:52:43 +0000

(Denton, September 30, 2008) Here’s an overview of the ‘beats’ that we are looking to cover over the next 45 days. Since many of these categories are broad, we may look at narrowing down these ‘beats’ into specific story ideas.

These stories and/or interactive packages will be assigned to you. You will be responsible to writing and reporting them. If you’re planning to take pictures, you’ll have to shoot and edit photos, then post them in a slide show.

Your job as an online journalist would be to write news and analysis stories that could be published on the new NTNewsNet.com website. Your job will be how are these candidates/groups/media using the web to reach their supporters, their readers/viewers. What interactive tools and elements are they using? What’s working? What’s not?

Here’s overview of beats:

* Candidates’ Websites: Obama & McCain

* Political Parties: DNC/RNC/others?

* Affiliated Groups/Special Interests/527s: For example, MoveOn.org,RockTheVote.org , HipHopSummitActionNetwork, etc.

* Issues: Economy, Iraq War, Health care, Race & gender, Education, Gun Control, Immigration, Abortion, Supreme Court appointments

* Media:

Major Print: Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal

Major Broadcast: ABC. CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC

Major Web: Politico, Slate, etc.

Your stories would be 300 – 500 words. They should include links. You may do a podcast or slide show.

Sample – Class Notes

bedstuyguy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:35:38 +0000

Online Journalism – Fall 2008 – Student Website Projects

bedstuyguy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:09:45 +0000

JOUR 3340 – Fall 2008 – Student Websites
First Name	Last Name	Website
Arlinda	Arriaga	arriagawordspill.wordpress.com/
Geoffrey	Brown	gwb0037.wordpress.com/
Whitney	Buster	whitneybusterbloggin.wordpress.com/
Kirsten	Calogero	calogerok.wordpress.com/
Juana	Cardenas	juanasays.wordpress.com/
Matthew	Conner	mdc0133.wordpress.com
AJ	Crisp	ajc0134.wordpress.com/my-hw/
Jena	Johnson	jenanjohnson.wordpress.com
Don	Mooney	damoonman.wordpress.com
Bryan	Shettig	bryanshettig.wordpress.com/
Paden	Smith	padensmith.wordpress.com
Victoria	Smithee	vnsmithee.wordpress.com/
Paige	Wilkerson	pkwilkerson05.wordpress.com