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=Sun West e-Journalism Team= =Rural Congress= =March 28 - 30, 2010=


 * Thanks to all of you for agreeing to be part of the Sun West e-Journalism Team that will attend the National Congress on Rural Education in Canada on March 28th through 30th, 2010. This wiki is designed to assist us with some pre-planning as we only had the one in-person opportunity to meet. Due to the fact we are all from varied locations within the school division, we will have to rely on various forms of distance communication in order to stay in touch between now and Congress. It is hoped this wiki will help us follow-up on a few of the ideas we discussed at our in-person meeting on February 28th in Rosetown, SK.**

= **OUTCOMES:** = As e-Journalists we will:
 * Get to know one another (including our interests and strengths) in relation to this e-Journalism experience.
 * Communicate with one another via various distance tools (wiki and email) between now and Congress in order to stay connected over our great distances.
 * Develop a blog to document conference highlights.
 * Attend the National Congress on Rural Education in Canada on March 28th, 29th, 30th and work as a team of e-journalists to:
 * Produce 3 Newsletters (Monday AM, Monday Noon, Tuesday AM) to circulate to conference participants. The Newsletter will include content which will help generate interest in the blog.
 * Develop a minimum of 2 multi-media presentations to showcase to participants of Congress. (Monday AM, Tuesday AM, Close?) The multi-media presentations will highlight Congress events using a variety (minimum of 5) internet-based tools. (Such as wordle, poll daddy, voice thread, one true media, bubbl-us, etc.) The presentations will also be designed to encourage conference participants to visit the blog.
 * Reflect on our e-journalism experience and the use of technology.

= TEAM ASSIGNMENT #1 =
 * Greetings Sun West e-Journalism Team! **

You should have received an email (if you didn’t, let me know!) to join our Rural Education e-Journalism Wiki. It is our hope this wiki will allow us to communicate and collaborate between now and the National Congress on Rural Education.

Using a wiki is fairly easy. We have set up several pages along the left-hand navigation bar that should help guide our planning.

As a member, you also have the ability to EDIT and add (please don’t delete) information on the wiki. To do this, it is simply a matter of clicking on the EDIT tab on the top right hand side of each page. Please keep in mind that we ALL have rights to add/edit/contribute to the wiki. (much like in our Rural Congress Blog)

We realize wikis are new to a number of you. If you require help, there is a wiki HELP icon that appears on every page (top and bottom) which may be useful if you experience difficulty. Or, see http://www.wikispaces.com/help for details.

Please don’t be afraid to experiment! We will learn as we go!

** ASSIGNMENT CHALLENGE #1: ** 1. Check out the “Cast Your Vote” page and provide us with your vote. Then, click on the Discussion Tab and provide us with some suggestions. 2. Click on the “Rural Congress” page to add some initial details about the keynote speakers and presenters you have researched. 3. Click on “The Team!” page, EDIT any preferred roles if needed and check out the videos at the bottom of the screen. It is hoped these videos will give you some ideas for our e-Journalism productions. 4. Click on the “Web 2.0 Tools” page, feel free to experiment with these or any other internet-based tools that you think will be useful for our project. 5. Be sure to communicate with us either in the “DISCUSSION” tab on any of the pages, or send questions/comments to us through email as we explore this wiki together.

** ASSIGNMENT CHALLENGE #2: ** 1. Please preview the following links as they represent work from past e-journalism students who covered Congress. Hopefully they will give you some ideas to reflect on over the next couple of days.

[|NWSD] [|Colonsay]

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 * Thanks all! Our biggest challenge is yet to come! We look forward to working with all of you at Congress!**