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Email in a social media world

A little observation I wanted to share. Over the summer I went away for a few weeks and put my out-of-office message on. At the same time I had a few students emailing me questions about assignments and I was surprised that some of them replied to my out-of-office as

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How can you spot a digital native? Check their little finger.

Apropos of nothing really, I got into an interesting chat with some of the third-year journalism students about how our use of social media would evolve. I wondered aloud about how the physical way we access information might change us. I pointed to my middle finger as an example. I

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Exploring the x,y,z of storytelling...

Warning: Thinking in process here. Sense may come later! I spent some time last week talking to students about mapping. Practically we were looking at Google maps and storymap.js. But I spent a bit of time reinforcing how location is increasingly valuable in storytelling – especially as thinking about where