Tutorials

Here are some online journalism tutorials and resources I have used in my classes. They are all free.

STORYTELLING
Five Steps of Multimedia Storytelling (NewsU)
Ira Glass of This American Life on the building blocks of good storytelling (25 minutes of YouTube videos)
Part 1: On the basics
Part 2: On finding a great story
Part 3: On taste
Part 4: On common pitfalls

HTML and CSS
Beginner HTML Tutorial (HTML Dog)
HTML/XHTML Tag Quick Reference (U. of Albany Libraries)
HTML Cheat Sheet (psacake.com)
Beginner CSS Tutorial (HTML Dog)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Language of the Image (NewsU)
Creative Commons and How to Use It (Bill Wolff)
Photojournalism 101: A quick and dirty guide to photographing your story (Common Language Project)
How to Resize and Save Photos for the Web (Berkey-Gerard Screencast)
Adobe Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts for versions 5 through CS4 (Trevor Morris)

AUDIO
Telling Stories with Sound (NewsU)
Audio 101: A quick and dirty guide to recording your story (Common Language Project)
Gathering Audio by Brian Storm (MediaStorm)
How to Convert Audio Files Using Switch (Berkey-Gerard Screencast)
GarageBand Basics for Journalists (Berkey-Gerard Screencast)
How to Use Garage Band (Knight Digital Media Center)
How to Use Audacity (Knight Digital Media Center)

SOUND SLIDES
Photoshop How To for Sound Slides (Mindy McAdams)
How to Use the Sound Slides (Knight Digital Media Center)
A Quick Tour of Sound Slides (Berkey-Gerard Screencast)
How to Ebed a Slide Show on WordPress (Berkey-Gerard Screencast)

VIDEO
Video Techniques (Knight Digital Media Center)
Video: The Five Shot Rule (BBC Training Video)
Windows Movie Maker Tutorial (Mindy McAdams)
iMovie for Journalists (Knight Digital Media Center)
iMovie 08 Tutorials (Apple)
iMovie 09 Tutorials (Apple)
Final Cut Pro (Knight Digital Media Center)
Adobe Premiere (Knight Digital Media Center)
Video to the Web (Knight Digital Media Center)

DIPITY TIMELINE
How to Make a Timeline Using Dipity (Berkey-Gerard)

GOOGLE MAPS
11 Exercises to Learn How to Make a Google Map (Berkey-Gerard)

Google Map Video Tours: (via Google Maps)
Getting Started
Add a Place
Google Street View
Create a Map
Add Third Party Content
Create a Google Map profile

MULTIMEDIA COLLAGE
How to Make a Multimedia Collage Using VuVox (VuVox)