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Canada 2024 Part One: Wayne Gretzky Estate, Fish and Chips at Grimsby, Buddhists at Brandt Street Pier, Oakville
By Michael Downing It was a beautiful July morning when drove out of Union City, Pennsylvania, toward Buffalo, New York, across the Peace Bridge, and on to Wayne Gretzky Estate. We visited the Estate last year and enjoyed it very much, sampling whiskey and vodka offerings and dining at the beautiful Trius Restaurant, directly next…
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EAPSU Slide Show: Fall 2024 @ Millersville
By Michael Downing Downing, Michael, Travel Writing Slide Show, EAPSU Conference, Millersville, Fall 2024
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OER Journalism Book through PA Adopt
By Michael Downing I recently published an Open Educational Resource (OER) Journalism book through PA Adopt.
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Intro To Journalism Handbook
An Open Educational Resource for Journalism Students Michael J. Downing, Ph.D. A Member of The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) as a part of PA-ADOPT, except where otherwise noted. Fifth Edition, 2024. NOTE: I’m conducting an experiment to…
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Draft: The Strange World of Academic Publishing>Professors Without Tier-1 Access Should Self-Publish
By Michael Downing DRAFT I was naïve when I got started in the world of academic publishing and didn’t know my field would be so territorial–because the people are generally kind—but academic fields are quite territorial. Profs take ownership of their fields and they don’t like it when you come onto their turf; they feel…
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UK Trip 2023: Chapter Fifteen>Edinburgh
By Michael Downing Edinburgh Edinburgh is magnificent. It was our favorite place on the trip. There is so much to see and do–and so much history. Edinburgh has been the capital of Scotland since 1437 (587+ years) and has been attacked dozens of times since any structure was first established on that titanic rock in…