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Hello, Journalism students. Welcome to our wiki. Your first step is to ask to join. Please choose a name that I will recognize but that does not disclose your identity to strangers, should one of them happen to glance at our wiki.

When you request membership, I will receive an email and I will accept you. Then you can post and contribute to our online discussion.

We will use this space as a library of interesting articles and opinion pieces and also as a forum for comment. Bookmark it!

Here is a wonderful article for you all to read:[|Why Bother? by Michael Pollan]

And here is one about the state of journalism today: [|The American Press on Suicide Watch]

And now I'd like you to undertake a new kind of assignment. How about creating a page of valuable links for student journalists, all annotated so someone could find the best of the web in journalism? You will notice six new tabs on the left, one for each table group. That's where you will house your journalistic tool kit.

But first you must discuss what journalism students need. What are the most important things they need to know? Most important sources of information? Most important ethical issues? Just what matters in journalism today? First you will need to answer those questions (and many more like them) before you can begin to look for the sites that will supply the info you need.

Step 1: brainstorm with your group all the important skills, issues, problems, goals, challenges, and areas of journalism today.

Step 2: group your list into categories. What are the main groups of topics for journalists?

Step 3: start looking for the very best resources for each of your categories, always asking yourselves, is this the //**best**// we can do? is there something better out there? How do we find the best?

Step 4: bookmark the //**best**// of what you find.

Step 5: annotate each link, describing what that site offers and why you believe it to be the best of its kind on the web.

Consider such things as:
 * accurate, up to date information
 * background information
 * visuals: photos, charts, graphs
 * problems in journalism
 * ethical issues in journalism
 * the changing face of journalism
 * various sorts of journalism (beats, specialities, areas of concentration)
 * journalism's vulnerability to tampering

Your page must have at least ten bookmarks, with thoughtful, thorough annotations. Place your initials by each of your bookmarks.

Extra credit for visual appeal and graphic coherence.