Here is the list of online classes, instructional videos, and handouts that I am using in my multimedia reporting workshop (officially titled Online Journalism 2) at Rowan University this fall. Tutorial 1: Finding a Good Story and Telling It Listen to This American Life’s “Rest Stop Episode” Watch Ira Glass talk about the elements of [...]
The audio slide show – a multimedia piece that combines audio and still photos – is a standard format in most newsrooms and journalism classrooms. And Soundslides, a program created by Joe Weiss, is the standard program used to create them. Soundslides is so easy to use that it does not require hours of step-by-step [...]
Over the next few months I’ll be rolling out a series of screencasts for use in my online journalism classes. I hope these allow students to learn at their own pace and help the students who are absent on the days we cover the material. I hope others outside of my classroom also find them [...]
For the past few years I have used student blogs as a primary format for my introductory online journalism course. Each student selects a topic or beat to cover for the semester and creates a blog dedicated to that subject. Then students report, write, photograph, gather audio, shoot and edit video for Web, and create [...]
A lot of resources on teaching interactive journalism have been circulating around the Web recently. Here are some I found valuable: Multimedia Standards, a University of Miami class project on multimedia journalism standards John Temple blogs the MediaStorm Methodology Workshop (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) and post-workshop reflection Ten steps [...]
Recently, I’ve encountered some convincing arguments that we may need an entirely new language for understanding and practicing journalism. A friend recommended I read a book called The Little Book of Contemplative Photography by Howard Zehr, a professor and documentary photographer who contends that the words and metaphors of photography – “taking a picture,” “shooting,” [...]
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