Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Convergence media, a fancy term for the natural evolution of traditional journalism, was featured at one of this morning’s sessions here at NSBA’s T+L² Conference in Denver. Basically, it’s an emerging movement in journalism to bring together broadcast, print, and online news productions through technology. High school students at Richland Northeast in Richland School District Two, Columbia, S.C., work as a team to gather news and then archive it in a multi-media production facility. Then, students decide how to distribute the news through numerous ways, such as the school’s tv programming, Web site, blog, and school newspaper. Students learn how to write for print, broadcast, and the web; how to use digital and video cameras; and how to do video editing, web page design and layout. Check out the students’ work at the Convergence Web site. By the way, Richland School District Two is one of this year’s TLN Salute District winners.