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A few things to note: I saw a lot of students using Twitter and quite a few using CoverItLive to liveblog the returns. Quite a few maps as well, and lots of video. I’ll be curious to hear reports of how those efforts worked out.

And kudos to all those student journalists who witnessed and reported history last night as the U.S. elected Barack Obama president.

And if your student media org isn’t on the list, you can still be added. e-mail me: scmurley -at- gmail.com.

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UPDATE: I’m twittering tonight, following some of the feeds from college media and others. You can follow CICM here.

I’m going to try to highlight some of the student efforts taking place today and tonight. With record voter turnout expected in a historic election, there should be plenty of angles to cover. This post will be updated with new links as they come in. If your student media organization is doing something with multimedia/online reporting for this election, drop a comment below or send me an e-mail – scmurley -at- gmail.com and I’ll put it in here.

Just because I’m in the spirit of continuous election coverage, I’ve included a Google map Gadget that is supposed to have continuously updated election results coming in in a few hours. (via TechPresident). UPDATE: I’ve also embedded a Google map with links to all the schools mentioned below.

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Here are some links to student newspaper election coverage in swing states (Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennylvania, Florida, Colorado, Nevada):

North Carolina

The Daily Tar Heel election blog and their Twitter stream

Duke Chronicle election blog

The Pendulum (Elon) – updated throughout the night, including Twitter feed.

Pennsylvania

Penn State Daily Collegian election coverage

Daily Pennsylvanian home page

Florida

The Independent Florida Alligator

Virginia

Va. Tech Collegiate Times election blog  plus a faculty donation database

Colorado

Colorado Daily news section

Nevada

Nevada Sagebrush election coverage

UN-Reno J-School – election coverage here.

Illinois

Northern Star – Twittering from Obama rally in Chicago. Also, live blogs from two columnists here and here

Daily Eastern News – Will be liveblogging local returns and updating interactive map.

Daily Illini – broadcasting live (via the217.com). Also, voting problems in Champaign-Urbana.

Indiana

Indiana Daily Student politics section

The Shield – liveblogging local election results and a Google map.

Iowa

Iowa State Daily -  Election Coverage includes an updated map, video, blogs and slideshows.

Ohio

KentNewsNet -Photos, video, audio updated throughout the day.

Missouri

The Maneater at U. Missouri

Michigan

The State News – live blog tonight, twitter feed from Chicago, etc.

Michigan Daily – liveblog begins at noon central. Posting photos to Flickr. Election section.

New York

WUSB (Stony Brook) – Democracy Now! broadcast this evening with WUSB reporters calling in reports. Also, Stonybrooknow.com, a site run by j-school students from various media outlets, is running live this election day. (via Isobel Breheny-Schafer)

Syracuse – Newhouse School students shoot video and Twitter. Indexed here.

Georgia

Red and Black – will be liveblogging at 6 p.m. with a continually updated interactive map (via Ed Morales)

Tennessee

InsideVandy election coverage

Texas

The Daily Texan election coverage

Wyoming

Northwest Trail – Northwest College will be livestreaming coverage beginning at 9:30 p.m. Mountain (11:30 Eastern)

California

Daily Californian (Berkeley) – video, audio, and stories updated throughout the day.

The Spartan Daily (SJSU) – will be liveblogging this evening. (via Kyle Hansen)

Louisiana

LSU’s Reveille – The Reveille is liveblogging today (although reader comments are disabled), and has a full page of election coverage.

Kentucky

The Kentucky Kernel – The Kentucky Kernel is using VuVox for a photo-panorama on their election page, and will be providing live coverage throughout the evening.

Washington, DC

The GW Hatchet – Election coverage here.

So far, I haven’t found anyone in Ohio who’s doing something special for the election. Maybe I’m wrong. I’d be happy to update. UPDATE: Thanks to Mark Goodman for reminding me that Kent State is in Ohio. (Doh!)

If you’re interested in the professional coverage of election day, here’s a pretty good round-up of online sources for news from the New York Observer. Megan Taylor has another list of election-related sources for the addicts among us.

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