Rally for Haiti-humanitarian response from OU

"Rally for Haiti" is a humanitarian response by OU based student organizations, associations and coordinated by the Center for International Studies.

There are 7 organizations willing to join their efforts for the emergency relief and save the lives of people in Haiti through their commitment.
The event will cast the best performances from all over the world, all funds will go to charity funds to make sure help is there when it is needed.
Join us and unite for humanitarian response!



Yours,

Center for International Studies,

International Student Union,

African Student Union,

African Student Association,

Bakomoso Leadership Forum,

UNICEF-OU Chapter,

Save the Children-OU Chapter,

Farmers Market heats up, sounds off

One of the many reasons that living in Athens, Ohio is better than a piece of freshly baked warm bread is a place where such food items are readily available -- the Athens Farmers' Market. In this podcast, Bob Stewart listens to the music of the market, as well as the many reasons folks in Athens cherish their chance to get together every week.



Or download the mp3.

Some of the voices you hear on this podcast:

Jack Wright, Bodie Stewart, Jen Lovejoy, Art Gish ... and many others.

Learn more about the market by reading the Athens Farmers' Market blog.

Stewart's presentation to faculty

This presentation was givin 1/30/09 to the JSchool colloquium:

We moved the needle on ATHENSi.com

The last week of January was a big week for our journalism class. We are focusing on increasing Web traffic on ATHENSi.com. We are thinking of journalists as facilitators of a diverse conversation within a community.

We had three days with over 400 unique visitors to ATHENSi.com! On the big snow day, when Ohio University was closed due to weather (for the first time in 10 years), ATHENSi.com had almost 600 visitors.

Let's keep the conversation going.

This is what we've been doing and what we think about it. Check it out.

What we like about ATHENSi.com

This video features the students enrolled in the advanced journalism on the Web course, which is helping to upgrade ATHENSi.com during the winter quarter.

Group photo of "coaches"

Here are the students in the J415/515 class, ready and willing to provide coaching on getting YOUR content onto ATHENSi.com.

Class podcast for day 1

ATHENSi.com is a course in the JSchool one quarter out of the year. This is the quarter (Winter 08-09). We meet only on Fridays, 9-noon. Our first meeting was last Friday. Here's the podcast of the class session.

The podcast begins with Bob Stewart, the course instructor, introducing the class to the approach that will be taken during the quarter. Email Stewart at stewartr@ohio.edu if you have any feedback or questions.