By Mindy McAdams
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I came up with a “reading” assignment for my grad students that would give us a good basis for a discussion about user-generated video. You can see it here: The mwesch Assignment (feel free to copy it).
I posted a summary (with two additional video examples embedded) on Slideshare: mwesch Reloaded.
Last fall I heard Mike Wesch [...]
Vin Crosbie, a longtime consultant to newspapers, accepted a one-year teaching appointment at Syracuse University last year and recently re-upped for a second tour of duty. In a blog post titled Life Aboard an Academic Supercarrier, he provides his outline for a course called New Media Business. Here’s a stripped-down version:
Introduction / The Internet Timeline
Digital [...]
There’s more to this brave new world of journalism than technology skills.
Business sense will play a large role in the rest of your career, whether you are a journalism student or a seasoned veteran.
If journalism students graduate without an understanding of how editorial, business, and technology work together, “you have not prepared them for the [...]
I’m liking this blog by Penn State journalism student Katharine Lackey: Beyond Print: Looking Into the Prism. Yesterday’s post springboards off a blog post at the MediaShift site in which a journalism student at NYU discusses the general cluelessness of many others in her course called “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers).”
I don’t mean to bash [...]
In case you never came across these short, handy lists — at Journalists’ Toolkit — take a moment and see whether they might help you out.
There are brief guides to starting out in audio, video, blogging, Flash, layout and design, HTML and CSS, etc.
If you have a good link to suggest, please leave a comment [...]
A lot of j-schools are starting, or in the middle of, curriculum reform. Many of these efforts focus solely on integrating the “new” skills that we use to produce journalism for digital media and devices. I meet and talk with other journalism educators at conferences and conventions, and it seems like just about everyone is [...]
So you have not started blogging yet, but now, you want to. Good for you!
Journalism educators: Would you like to add blogging to your classes? Don’t waste time talking to the IT department. Just do it! Here’s how:
Go to WordPress.com.
Click the big green blue button (sign up and create a new blog).
Look at your Dashboard [...]
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