By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
You may know Geoffrey Hiller’s name — he’s a photojournalist and multimedia producer who has worked all over the world (see his portfolio). His photography projects are beautiful and moving, but I also admire his dedication to learning the new tools, including the nasty stuff such as XHTML and CSS. In my mind, he’s the [...]
I know my audience knows more than I do. I’m asking for input on a 12-week-long blogging assignment I will give to my students.
First they have to choose a beat or subject area. I have to approve it, or else they choose something different.
Then each student sets up a new, individual WordPress.com blog.
They have to [...]
My friend Sue Robinson, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, took a two-and-a-half-day video training course preceding the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. While she was telling me how much she had learned, I asked her to write a guest blog post about [...]
Today’s AEJMC panel about video storytelling was excellent. Serena Carpenter of Arizona State did a great job of putting together a panel of four very different people — Chris Booker, multimedia producer at the Chicago Tribune; Steve Anderson, broadcast journalism professor at James Mason University; Bonnie Bucqueroux, formerly teaching at Michigan State, now running a [...]
A minimalistic PowerPoint outlines the basics, in modular pieces:
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I gave this presentation today at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Related resources are linked on this page, which I prepared for five days of journalist training in Vietnam earlier this summer.
My aim in this [...]
Craig Stolz, formerly a journalist at The Washington Post, has been blogging for one year. On the occasion of his blog’s anniversary, he wrote this succinct list of lessons learned, which is rather brilliant:
A personal blog is as valuable to the writer as the reader.
Entry titles are as important as content. Titles should be [...]
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