Archive for the Flash Tag

Communities of practice: teaching students to learn in networks

One of the problems in teaching online journalism is that what you teach today may be out of date by the time the student graduates.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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Elections08: Storytelling with public databases

Written by Wilbert Baan Today is the day of the US elections. I don’t think we ever had a live event on the web that will get so much live coverage. This means incredible amounts of information will be published over all kind of services and social networks. Websites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger and many more. Most popular
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Why fantasy football may hold the key to the future of news

This season, after years of loyalty to the BBC/Channel 4 fantasy football competition, I’ve switched to The Guardian’s. Their game takes advantage of the reams of player data now available to newspapers – not just goals scored, clean sheets and assists, but also clearances, interceptions, tackles, shots on target, and so on, making for a very different challenge indeed. The
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CNN lets you see the ‘BackStory’

CNN have a fancy new tool which allows you to see the “history, context and background to a developing story”. BackStory presents previous stories in a slideshow format with links to the full articles. I’m not sure if this is a ‘Previous Stories’ link box for the broadband age that brings new life to a story, or a waste of
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Something for the Weekend #5: Who needs to know Flash? Vuvox

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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Not another ‘virtual newspaper’…

Remember when newspaper editors thought it was impressive to have a virtual version of their newspaper, turning pages and all? Remember how no one read them? Well it seems the same mistakes are being made all over again by Arabic daily newspaper An-Nahar. The newspaper now features a Flash version of itself – complete with a virtual desk littered with
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Image of the day: technical skills required by journalism jobs

Eric Ulken has taken “all the online job descriptions on JournalismJobs.com from this year, omitted the non-technical words (like “editor”, “seeks” and “self-starter”) and built a tagcloud out of the rest”. This is the result: Eric Ulken | Technical skills in journalism jobs Blogged with Flock