One of the problems in teaching online journalism is that what you teach today may be out of date by the time the student graduates. This is not just a technological problem (current services stop running; new ones emerge that you haven’t taught; new versions of languages and software are released) but also a problem of medium: genres such as
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online journalism • Tags: audio slideshows, birmingham city university, desi velikova, Flash, hedy korbee, ma online journalism, online journalism education • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post
The penultimate session in my 10-class module in Online Journalism from last year covered a range of areas. There’s a little bit on audio slideshows, a lot on community, and related to that, I covered wikis too. I’ve split them into 3 presentations for ease of use. This year (the module starts again on Monday) I’ll probably take an axe
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online journalism • Tags: audio slideshows, bcumedia, classes, community, lessons, wikis • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post
As a new semester begins it seems a good time to finally post about how my second year journalism degree students approached the ‘interactive’ element of their portfolio way back in May (yes, everything they do is interactive, but bear with me). For the first time I gave them an open brief in terms of what they did interactively (in
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online journalism, twitter • Tags: alice fanning, ashley snape, audio slideshows, emma foster, environmental news online, geotagging, Google Maps, hayley smith, interactivity, journalism education, kasper sorensen, Kat Higgs, mashups, natalie chillington, online journalism education, online journalism students, stephanie grant, stephen nunes, tuuli platner, twitter, Yahoo! Pipes, youtube • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post
Vuvox is to Flash what WordPress is to Dreamweaver. Vuvox is, effectively, a content management system for multimedia content – an easy way to create Flash interactives without having to know Flash. I first explored it a few months ago, but still haven’t had the time to really see what it can do. But here’s some things: Photo gallery Image
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Two approaches to reporting on war have crossed my virtual desk recently. First, a broadcast journalist at ITV News told me about their video blogs from Afghanistan – embedded below: [blip.tv ?posts_id=729959&dest=-1] Second, Reuters send me a press release about ‘Bearing Witness, “a unique multimedia package and online documentary to mark 5 years of reporting war in Iraq” Watch the
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