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

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 [...]

But can you tell a story?

Monday, January 21, 2008

Can you do great narrative storytelling purely in XHTML and CSS? Or do you need Flash?
This provocative question stems from a recent blog post by Khoi Vinh, design director for nytimes.com. He didn’t come straight out and ask that, but pretty close:
My complaint, right now, is that the majority of storytelling that happens on the [...]

First forays into video editing on Windows XP

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

I have some new HV20 video cameras for my students to use. Our semester began last week, but I’m a little behind on getting everything set up for them. I’ve never taught shooting before. Five or six years ago I used to teach video editing in Premiere, but I cut that out when I started [...]

The $200 Linux laptop, fully loaded

Friday, December 21, 2007

This baby is amazing. More photos of my new XO laptop are now on Flickr.

Previous post about the One Laptop Per Child program here. Buy two, give one, and you get a $200 tax deduction (U.S. residents).