Comments on: SchoolsMap https://partnews.mit.edu/2014/05/14/schoolsmap/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:10:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Ethan https://partnews.mit.edu/2014/05/14/schoolsmap/#comment-38682 Mon, 19 May 2014 20:55:07 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=4996#comment-38682 Julia, I admire and appreciate your dedication to the SchoolsMap project. In conversations, you’ve also persuaded me that SchoolMap, used well, could provide a very helpful complement to education reporting, allowing schools to portray themselves in a way that complements and contextualizes quantitative data.

For me, the missing piece is the need for a demo of how video could be used by students and by the school to portray themselves, above and beyond your excellent documentary. I think a demo that showed a video produced by students or by a community put in context with the data, and perhaps accompanying a story, would make your point more strongly than the video you close with, which seems like a cool idea, but not entirely related to the one you put forth here.

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