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The beauty of data visualisation David McCandless,a writer and graphic designer,turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending,media buzz,Facebook status updates) into beautiful,simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design,he suggests,is the best way to navigate information glut —and it may just change the way we see the world.
TED talk by Hans Rosling by Geoff McGhee Also available as a multimedia package at http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/  Inside Out http://insideoutaustralia.wordpress.com/ insideoutaustralia thebuzzards Digital Inclusion http://motif.swinmc.net/student_work/digital_inclusion/ Voice Through Media http://motif.swinmc.net/camerissa/ Bilingualism and Multilingualism in Australia http://motif.swinmc.net/student_work/groupbanter/Welcome.html Neighbourhood Justice http://onlineandcovergent.tumblr.com [hellolisa]
Team Name:The Buzzards Team Name:BANTER Team Name:Mental Health Busters Team Name camerissa Name MightyDucks Team Name:Lemon Team Name:Faux News Topic Kathy Kizilios from Australian Society Online will be in touch with each group to discuss your stories. Meanwhile,let’s populate this Blogroll! Send me your own blog if you have one so we can link to it from here https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1cGlZxaDASAgVh-_cIBRcteuzhuF6dkrk029gMtmIY5s&hl=en The following is a great intro to setting up a wordpress site When you are edting Motif,however,you are must follow our rules with regards to the way the site has been set up. The following are those rules. 1. Include an image with each new post –after you have inserted the image into the post you will need to make sure that you set the advanced properties of the image by clicking on the image. Select Edit Image and then Advanced Settings. Where it saysImage Properties add Border 1 Vertical Space 5 Horizontal Space 5 The click update. 2. Before you publish your post,you need to select a category to determine where the post will appear on the screen. The categories are Featured Student Work Student News Other News These categories are set to work with this theme so it is not possible to add new categories or change the existing ones. 3. Each post should have a short excerpt added. This is like the breakout or intro that you often read with news stories online and goes in the box below the post. 4. If you are unclear about the content and what me or someone else to read it before you publish it to the site,Click on Save draft. The when you are satisfied with it you can click on Publish. 4. You can embed other media into stories. But be careful. This is YOUR site! Have fun with it. And after your group’s week is over,don’t feel that you can’t still contribute stories. The more stories we get the better! Oi –you lot! Stop procrastinating and send me your story ideas (if you haven’t already) and upload your iMovie profiles –you are not Martin Scorsese and I don’t expect you to be so get on with it. Or you could read the fiollowing http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/16/charlie-brooker-writing-deadlines Just a reminder that you need to upload your iMovie profile to the Convergent Journalism channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/convergentjournalism I will send you the username and password to login via email. The following video will help you to review what we did in class yesterday. And remember that you can access the Postgrad Lab on Level 4 to get onto a Mac should you need to do so.  You might also be interested in how you set up a blog on your own server –that is,on a private host rather than through wordpress.com –don’t worry,I’m not going to ask you to do this! But it does help you understand how the back end of blogs work.  | ||||||
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