By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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).
This semester I had the opportunity to create and teach a new graduate course, focused on multimedia storytelling. I admitted 15 students, all of whom had some prior experience as reporters (for some, it was only a one-semester reporting class).
The course is called Journalists’ Toolkit 1, and the complete syllabus is online.
The students’ final assignment [...]
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