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 interactive [...]
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 news organizations [...]
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,” “aiming” [...]
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