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Portal:Global Advocacy Institute 2009

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Welcome to the 2009 Global Advocacy Institute! This portal page on IDEA's Debatepedia will be your home base for the next three weeks. Here you will find information you need, resources you can use, and examples of the work coming out of both the debate and the citizen journalism tracks. To find this page from anywhere else in Debatepedia, just search "institute" in the search bar.

If you have any questions or comments about this page, please email Mite at Kuzevski@gmail.com.

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Climate Change Training

Institute participants! This year we are lucky to have climate change training from 350.org. This section of the wiki will be your home for all climate change materials.

Climate change sub-section A

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Climate change sub-section B

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Climate change sub-section C

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Debatepedia Links

External Links

350.org
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New Media Advocacy

Welcome to the New Media Advocacy track. As soon as you create content, we can put it up here.

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New Media Advocacy track sub-section C

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Free Software for Creating Public Media

Audacity, an example of Open-Source Software

Free and affordable software is essential for citizen journalism, so that any citizen can create media without requiring a professional budget. This kind of software does exist as an alternative to the very expensive professional tools. For example, Adobe's Photoshop can be replaced by Gimp, a free, downloadable, open-source image manipulation program. Another alternative would be to use a program built into your computer's operating system. For example, instead of using Final Cut Pro or Avid for video editing, you can use iMovie if your computer has a Mac OS, or Windows Movie Maker if you have a Windows OS. Open-Source Software

For a complete list of Open-Source Software pages, view Category:Open-Source Software

Open Office is a productivity suite that can be used for a variety of purposes, including word processing, databases, and presentations.
Picasa can be used for digital photography importing and editing.
GraphicConverter can be used for organizing, batch editing, and converting digital images.
Gimp can be used for image manipulation.
SonicStage can be used for audio importing.
Audacity can be used for audio editing.
KompoZer can be used for web authoring.