By Mindy McAdams

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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 June 2007

Welcome to the new Tojou site

Saturday, June 30, 2007

I’ve changed the URL of this blog and ported it from Blogger to WordPress. There are still a few kinks to be worked out in the CSS (especially for IE 6.0, that awful browser), but mostly it’s ready for prime time. If you see any errors or ugliness, please tip me off.
The feed URL is […]

Blogger byebye

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Welcome to the new blog!
Now that you’re here, check out the latest posts on the front page, or sample one of these popular posts from the past:

Getting and Keeping a Job in Journalism
Flash Video Tutorial
What I Learned from the Online Photojournalists
Basic Kit: Gear for the Multimedia Reporter
New — Soundslides Plus

Three good things I read this week

Friday, June 29, 2007

Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the WorldEvan Ratliff, June 26, Wired magazine
Since Google relaunched the software in June 2005, the stand-alone Google Earth program has been downloaded more than 250 million times. The program’s seamless zoom-in feature has become ubiquitous on television news shows. And there are dedicated sites — such as […]

Your very first Flash package

Thursday, June 28, 2007

It takes me eight weeks to teach Flash to undergraduate journalism students. That’s starting from zero. If they do all the homework and study all the examples, they can be very good at the end of eight weeks. Mostly it takes time and dedication, rather than any special talent or computer aptitude.
When I do training […]

Aussie daily rocks with slideshows

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Andrew Meares, chief photographer at The Sydney Morning Herald, reports that slideshows have become very popular with online site visitors — more so than video.
Total Soundslides pageviews to date are 1,214,918 (since October 2006). Our video team pop the champagne with 5000+ views, our top text stories of the week rate 80,000+.
The biggest hitters:
Pasha Bulker […]

Flash journalists: I need your help

Friday, June 22, 2007

I have been working for some time on ways to teach people how to manage bigger Flash projects. This is one of those cases where I’m finding it hard to figure out how to teach something I know how to do, because (a) the process is so holistic; and (b) every project is different.
So I […]

Three ideas to improve your motion video

Friday, June 22, 2007

A really nice column by my friend Regina McCombs: Meaning in Motion: Ken Burns and His “Effect.”
Burns believes the photograph is still the core of visual storytelling, that “the still image is still the essential building block, the DNA, at least photographically speaking, of visual creation.” From that foundation emerge three concepts to consider when […]