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 the “tools” category

Nifty new developments for Flash

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Google Maps API for Flash: “Lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. [T]his ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services, enabling you to embed robust, interactive maps applications …” (Examples here and here.)
Flash Player 10 is out in beta. Hank Williams […]

Mobile journalism: What’s in your backpack?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Student and journalist Jared Silfies dumped out his backpack and showed us the things he carries for mobile reporting.
I love his photo! I would enjoy seeing more like it. What do you say — can you post a picture for us, and give us a gear list? Just post it to Flickr if you don’t […]

The reporter’s audio gear list

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

I saw this idea on someone else’s blog (I forget whose) and thought it a brilliant way to keep an up-to-date gear list that’s easy to share with others:
B&H WishList: Audio Gear (Mindy)
Please do not try to buy gear for me — it’s a “wishlist” for other people, not for me!
The one thing you can’t […]

Is it real, or is it Photoshop?

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What did the scene really look like? Too many photojournalists have been dodging and burning the heck out of their pictures for too long. It’s not real, and it’s not accurate. But they’re doing it anyway, ethics be damned.
In a wonderful and long-needed blog post, Carrie Niland serves up one educational example (in a real […]

Two things I learned this weekend

Monday, April 14, 2008

(1) You can make a playlist of a selected group of videos in YouTube and then generate a custom video player (also in YouTube) to play just those videos — in any order you select. Maybe this is old news to everyone else, but it was new to me. I thought it was really cool, […]

WordPress as your Web authoring tool

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

I’ve been pimping free WordPress blogs as the way to get started online for journalist bloggers, journalism educators, and students for months now (ever since I migrated this blog to WordPress, in fact). Most people will be content (even happy) with a free blog hosted at WordPress.com. (Real geeks, on the other hand, can download […]

Choice for audio recorders

Friday, January 25, 2008

John Kroll is the news impact editor at The Plain Dealer (cleveland.com) in Cleveland, Ohio, and he was kind enough to allow me to share his opinion about the Zoom H2 recorder, which I’ve been dying to try out (but I have no money for these right now).

“The H2s are working fine for us. We […]