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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for March 2006

The living Web

Friday, March 31, 2006

Newsweek made a good effort at capturing the online zeitgeist in this past week’s cover story, but here are some things they didn’t include:
Many people have neither the time nor sufficient interest to use the “cheap geeky software tools known as the Web’s ‘connective tissue.’” The question is, does that make those who do use […]

Great site that teaches Web design

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Some people have a knack for visual design, but most people — including most students in a journalism program — really could benefit from some training and instruction.
The Web site examples on this page can be fantastic teaching tools. Not only do you get to see a variety of current design techniques beautifully put into […]

Search skills: Not as good as we thought

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

In an Op-Ed for The New York Times (March 26), Edward Tenner asks whether Google and other search engines are making today’s students stupid.
We see this all the time among university undergraduates — they know how to use a search engine, but they don’t know how to use it WELL.
“Many students seem to lack the […]

Is Soundslides for you?

Sunday, March 26, 2006

You want to make a photo slideshow with sound and put it online. You know how to shoot photos and you have some idea how to gather audio and produce an MP3 file. But you don’t even own Flash, let alone know how to use it.
If you haven’t heard of Joe Weiss’ Soundslides, then listen […]

Online slideshow vs. online video

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Illuminating insights from Andrew Locke, director of product strategy for MSNBC.com (Feb. 3, 2006).
The choice between using video and using still photos with audio, he wrote, “frankly has as much to do with time and the multimedia producer’s comfort level as it does with storytelling.” In Locke’s view, these are “very similar mediums and in […]

Do we need Newsvine?

Saturday, March 25, 2006

A new news site came out of beta about a month ago. It’s called Newsvine, and it’s the product of a good old-fashioned startup company (the kind we used to see by the dozens during the dot-com boom days) based in Seattle.
The premise is that a mix of rapidly posted wire stories and user-created news […]

Annual Web photojournalism awards

Friday, March 24, 2006

Online now: NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism 2006 Web site winners.
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