Portal:Debate and Citizen Journalism Institute 2008

FOR THIS YEAR'S INSTITUTE, SEE GLOBAL ADVOCACY INSTITUTE 2009

Welcome to the 2008 Debate and Citizen Journalism Institute! This portal page on IDEA's Debatepedia will be your home base for the next three weeks. Here you will find information you need, resources you can use, and examples of the work coming out of both the debate and the citizen journalism tracks. To find this page from anywhere else in Debatepedia, just search "institute" in the search bar.

If you have any questions or comments about this page, please email Jesse at JesseTowsen@gmail.com.

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Debaters! Come here to find materials and to see yourself debating!

Welcome to Introductory Debate with Ioana Cionea!

Welcome to Advanced Argumentation and Debate with Sharon Porter!

Welcome to British Parliamentary Debate, taught by Jackson Miller and assisted by Jesse Towsen.

Check out our growing collection of student-made country briefs at category:country briefs.

Welcome to World Schools Debate, taught by Kate Hamm and Anastasia Solovyera.

Welcome to Coaching Debate with Sharon Porter!

Welcome to the Intensive English track, taught by Alex Dukalskis, and this year featuring its own Citizen Journalism track taught by our CJ faculty!

• portal:British Parliamentary Debate
• portal:World Schools Debate

Welcome to the Citizen Journalism Track. As soon as you create content, we can put it up here.

• For classroom help, go to the Citizen Journalism Learning Blog.
• For more information about Citizen Journalism in general, check out the CJ portal at Portal:Citizen Journalism
• To create your Open ID account, go here.

• Orphans in Civil Society - Aleksey Burdyda
• Positive Thinking - Aleksandrs Potaicuks
• Rural Development - Ance Zemzane
• Turkey: A Story of Past and Present - Chen Ying
• Rural Voice - Forest Kvasnikoff
• Worldwide Change - Megan Waggoner
• Harmony in Civil Society - Murad Hudayberdiev
• When We Were Small - Pandy Penn
• I Am American: A Search for the Meaning of Patriotism - Shelby Surdyk
• Life-changing Teachers - Sierra Dawn
• Capturing Concerns, Capturing Perspectives - Tonny Lubanga
• Eyes Wide Open - Effie Wu

Audacity, an example of Open-Source Software

Free and affordable software is essential for citizen journalism, so that any citizen can create media without requiring a professional budget. This kind of software does exist as an alternative to the very expensive professional tools. For example, Adobe's Photoshop can be replaced by Gimp, a free, downloadable, open-source image manipulation program. Another alternative would be to use a program built into your computer's operating system. For example, instead of using Final Cut Pro or Avid for video editing, you can use iMovie if your computer has a Mac OS, or Windows Movie Maker if you have a Windows OS. Open-Source Software

For a complete list of Open-Source Software pages, view Category:Open-Source Software

• Open Office is a productivity suite that can be used for a variety of purposes, including word processing, databases, and presentations.
• Picasa can be used for digital photography importing and editing.
• GraphicConverter can be used for organizing, batch editing, and converting digital images.
• Gimp can be used for image manipulation.
• SonicStage can be used for audio importing.
• Audacity can be used for audio editing.
• KompoZer can be used for web authoring.
• Scribus can be used for desktop publishing / page layout.
• Jahshaka can be used for video editing.

Windows Movie Maker logo

Software Built into Operating Systems

For a complete list of this type of software, view Category:Software Built Into an OS

For Windows OS

• Windows Movie Maker can be used for video editing.

For Mac OS

• iMovie can be used for video editing.
• iPhoto can be used for basic photo importing and editing.

Youth Media Reporter - The Professional Journal of the Youth Media Field

• Youth Media Reporter - The Professional Journal of the Youth Media Field
• Center for Citizen Media
• Knight Citizen News Network
• Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive by Mark Briggs
• Pew Center for Civic Journalism
• Duino 2007 CJ Summary, a brief description of the citizen journalism curriculum at IDEA's 2007 International Debate and Citizen Journalism Institue, in Duino Italy.
• The Citizen Media Law Project
• "Microphones", by Peter Elsea, for an overview of the more technical aspects of using microphones.
• A very useful guide to audio recording