By Mindy McAdams
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One of the hardest things to teach is how to tell a story. I could say “how to tell a story well,” but no, it’s simpler than that. Students just don’t get how to evaluate the pieces, how to hone and polish them, and how to arrange them in a satisfying way. So I’m always [...]
Among the finalists for the Online Journalism Awards category “Outstanding Use of Digital Media,” three of the seven packages center on popular music: Forty Years of ‘RESPECT’ (Detroit Free Press), a tribute to the Aretha Franklin song; Hip Hop 101 (Wisconsin State Journal); Wonderful World (The Honolulu Advertiser), a tribute to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Let’s take a closer look —
Wowee! That’s my reaction to this sweet project from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis Blues
I love the cigar box! And the “Roots” section: Wow! WOW!
This is the real American music, and St. Louis has a special stake in it.
Flash programming by Brian Williamson. Assistant programmer: Jacob Piercy.
Technorati tags: Flash | Flash journalism | online journalism [...]
The incredibly talented Laith Bahrani (he of considerable fame for the JCB Song, about which a complete cult has developed) is now featured on MediaStorm with his latest music video (hmm, a bit of a departure for MediaStorm, eh?) — Creep, by Radiohead! WOW!
Don’t click unless you are an animation fan.
Special treat for Flash Timeline [...]
Our students are fabulous. Check out the profiles of eight local bands photographed and interviewed on location in Orlando by Alligator staffers (pop-up window opens from the link at right, “Gainesville heard at FMF”). For something completely different, see what an intern from UF created for the St. Pete Times with hard news on deadline [...]
This is off-topic for both teaching AND online journalism, but it is related to copyright, so I’m just posting a brief heap o’ links: Paste magazine (cover price $7.95), includes a CD with 21 tracks and a DVD full of short films; found it in the Austin, Texas, airport; bought it because the Flaming Lips [...]
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