{"id":7087,"date":"2014-12-02T03:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2014-12-09T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:52:47","slug":"pbs-newshour-extras-myzeitgeist-contest-opens-for-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/pbs-newshour-extras-myzeitgeist-contest-opens-for-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS NewsHour Extra\u2019s #MyZeitgeist Contest Opens for Entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/extra\">NewsHour Extra<\/a>, PBS NewsHour\u2019s educational resource site and an <em>Educator Innovator\u00a0<\/em>partner, is challenging students with its annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/extra\/2014\/11\/myzeitgeist-2014-student-challenge\/\">#MyZeitgeist contest<\/a> to create digital projects about the most important news events of 2014. Inspired by Google\u2019s annual Zeitgeist year-in-review montage, #MyZeitgeist encourages innovation in the classroom, news and media literacy and an understanding of how current events interact with history.<\/p>\n<p>Our mobile partner, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/education\/2014\/11\/13\/create-media-mashups-with-trio\/\">Trio<\/a>, allows students to combine news clips, gifs, Instagram or Vine posts and other media to tell the story of 2014. Students who prefer to use laptops can create on Meograph\u2019s mashup platform.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, winner Heneeya Myrick from St. Paul, Minn., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/winners-announced-for-pbs-newshour-extras-myzeitgeist-competition\/\">showed us<\/a> how global news events affected her life.<\/p>\n<p>#MyZeitgeist is open for submissions until <strong>Dec. 12<\/strong>, and finalists will be notified on Dec. 15 with further instructions. We will announce the winner on Dec. 31, and they will receive a Nexus tablet from Google.<\/p>\n<p>Classes can participate in a Twitter chat with <em>Educator Innovator<\/em> partner KQED&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/education\/about-do-now\/\">Do Now<\/a>\u00a0 from Dec. 5-12 or join the conversation on Twitter at the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MyZeitgeist?src=hash\">#MyZeitgeist<\/a> to share their take on the news from this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Corinne Segal and Katie Gould<\/em><br \/>\n<em>This post originally appeared on PBS NewsHour&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/newshour-extras-myzeitgeist-contest-opens-entries\/\">The Rundown.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsHour Extra, PBS NewsHour\u2019s educational resource site and an Educator Innovator\u00a0partner, is challenging students with its annual #MyZeitgeist contest to create digital projects about the most important news events of 2014. Inspired by Google\u2019s annual Zeitgeist year-in-review montage, #MyZeitgeist encourages innovation in the classroom, news and media literacy and an understanding of how current events [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,36,11,395],"tags":[394,347,396,238,393],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}