When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.
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I’ve noticed that some teachers are replicating their lectures in YouTube video form, and this has been incredibly time consuming and depleting for them. But doing this isn’t necessary. After all, video lessons on almost every topic already exist on the internet. Teachers’ time is valuable and should often be used instead for maintaining interaction and connection with students. Teachers should be given the liberty to focus on how to create more interactive touchpoints with students, more than trying to recreate online resources similar to those that already exist. This isn’t just healthier for the students; teachers will also get more energy from interacting with their students than they do from spending time in a home recording studio making Khan Academy-style videos.
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That’s the daunting question faced by upstart digital media company Vox.com. Vox covers everything from entertainment to politics to pop culture — and specifically anything trending across social media. Vox’s mission: Identify the news that people are interested in and then explain it using their brand of explainer journalism. The company’s director of programming, Allison Rockey, and audience development editor, Agnes Mazur, have their work cut out for them.
“One of the biggest challenges is cutting through the noise — there are so many
conversations going on across so many channels, and these are all relevant to us.” Allison explains.
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