Esther Wojcicki on Peer based learning with Student Journalism
Check out Howard Rheingold's blog post on DML Central interviewing Esther Wojcicki about SJ2.0. Howard Rheingold, who teaches at UC Berkeley and Stanford, talks about how Esther's journalism classes at Palo Alto High School have shaped his own class at Stanford in VirtualCommunity/Social Media.

Creative Commons: Alternative to UWIRE?
I recently blogged about the demise of the college news aggregator and wire sevice UWIRE. MediaShift wrote about it, proposing some explanations for why it failed.

Where is journalism headed?
CBC News has a great round-up of interesting interviews, people, and articles on the future of journalism in the so-called "Web 2.0" world.

Student privacy
Our partners at HASTAC (the MacArthur Foundation partner at Duke University funding the SJ 2.0 project) were interested in publishing a story about the project in Duke Today, a paper at Duke University, and they requested some pictures from us. I selected 3 pictures, 2 of which had pictures of student's faces in it.

College Media Aggregator UWIRE Shuts Down
The Wired Campus reports that the popular UWIRE college journalism aggregator has been suspended indefinitely.

How does student journalism fit in with the Reconstruction of American Journalism?
For those of you worried about the future for journalism in America, you might want to read the recently released report entitled "The Reconstruction of American Journalism" by Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson. You can also watch a segment on the report that was recently featured on PBS' News Hour.

Creative Commons at the JEANC Conference
Ahrash Bissell and I were in Sacramento for the JEANC conference this past weekend (Journalism Education Association of Northern California). It was great to see so many of the Student Journalism 2.0 students at the conference, and to see the Palo Alto and Monta Vista High advisors so hard at work helping to make student journalism education more effective in California.

New Al Jazeera Blogs use CC
Mohamed Nanabhay, Head of Online at Al Jazeera English and website Editor-in-Chief announces that the new Al Jazeera blog network will be licensed with Creative Commons licenses.

Student Journalism 2.0 takes off at The Paly Voice
Yesterday, The Paly Voice, the student-run newspaper at Palo Alto High School, announced the integration of CC licenses, allowing its writers to choose to share their articles and op-ed pieces with the world. Already, Sydney Rock and Rachel Harrus's article announcing the collaboration has gone viral via the CC BY-NC license, as the CC Google Alert picked it up and placed it squarely inside my morning radar. From the article,

the SHEAF, a newspaper with an online network
I stumbled across the SHEAF, the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper, after they mentioned a copyright panel centered largely on Creative Commons was held on October 7 in the Learning Commons of the school's library. The panel was "aimed at raising awareness of copyright uses in the classroom setting" and focused on using Internet content in lectures. All this aside, the actual online newspaper has a simple, clean layout that purports some network tools: