Web Two > Teaching Journalism with Blogs, Wikis, and other Web2.0 tools

RConversation[RConversation] Ease of use aside, for the teaching staff at our Journalism and Media Studies Centre it makes a lot of sense to teach and assign work where appropriate on a widely-used public blogging platform rather than an internal system like WebCT. It's important for students to become comfortable with web tools and systems that they encounter frequently on the public web and which they will wind up using in real life - either as reporters working for news organizations, or as freelancers promoting their expertise via their own websites, or as founders of internet media startups which are easier to launch than ever - thanks to new user-friendly, open source publishing platforms like those we are using in our classes.

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