By — Corinne Segal Corinne Segal By — Katie Gould Katie Gould Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/newshour-extras-myzeitgeist-contest-opens-entries Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter NewsHour Extra’s #MyZeitgeist contest opens for entries Education Nov 18, 2014 1:07 PM EDT NewsHour Extra, the NewsHour’s educational resource site, is challenging students with its annual #MyZeitgeist contest to create digital projects about the most important news events of 2014. Inspired by Google’s 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. Our mobile partner, Trio, 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’s mashup platform. Last year, winner Heneeya Myrick from St. Paul, Minn., showed us how global news events affected her life. #MyZeitgeist is open for submissions until Dec. 12, 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. Classes can participate in a Twitter chat with KQED Do Now from Dec. 5-12 or join the conversation on Twitter at the hashtag #MyZeitgeist to share their take on the news from this year. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Corinne Segal Corinne Segal Corinne is the Senior Multimedia Web Editor for NewsHour Weekend. She serves on the advisory board for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. @cesegal By — Katie Gould Katie Gould Katie Gould is the PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Resource Producer. Prior to teaching high school social studies for six years, Katie worked as a researcher in psychiatric medicine specializing in neuroscience.
NewsHour Extra, the NewsHour’s educational resource site, is challenging students with its annual #MyZeitgeist contest to create digital projects about the most important news events of 2014. Inspired by Google’s 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. Our mobile partner, Trio, 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’s mashup platform. Last year, winner Heneeya Myrick from St. Paul, Minn., showed us how global news events affected her life. #MyZeitgeist is open for submissions until Dec. 12, 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. Classes can participate in a Twitter chat with KQED Do Now from Dec. 5-12 or join the conversation on Twitter at the hashtag #MyZeitgeist to share their take on the news from this year. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now