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Student-provided sites from The Teaching & Learning Digital Studio at Calvin College
Digital Studio Sites is a blog with a large collection links from the Teaching & Learning Digital Studio Staff at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI) that covers a wide range of academic topics and more. The staff scours the Web for the best, most interesting, and useful Web sites for the classroom (and maybe beyond) on the Internet and continually updates the list of links. Professors can quickly find sites related to their field of study by keyword, search, or by subscribing via RSS feed.
The Digital Journalist’s Handbook is composed of 12 chapters, each covering a different tool in the digital journalist’s arsenal:
An examination of the current state of journalism and what it means to be a digital journalist.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Headlines
• Linking
• Breaking news
• Comments
• Analytics
• Computer-assisted reporting
• Getting started
• Blog platforms
• Design
• Other types of blogs
• RSS
• Creating a successful blog
• Choosing a camera
• Composing a photo
• Shooting in the field
• Digital photo editing
• Choosing an audio recorder
• Microphones and accessories
• Recording in the field
• Interviewing
• Ambient sound
• Narration
• Audio editing
• Posting and sharing audio
• Podcasting
• Creating the slideshow
• Soundslides
• Choosing a camera
• Camera accessories
• Composing video
• Recording in the field
• Interviewing
• Video editing
• Posting and sharing video
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• HTML
• CSS
• Journalism and programming
• Twitter
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Digg
• StumbleUpon
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Delicious
• Making the most of social networks
• Interactive maps
• Databases
• Creating a visualization
• The Flash interface
• The capabilities of Flash
• Publishing Flash files
• The disadvantages of Flash
Advice and lessons on what digital journalists should do with the tools they learn
The glossary contains more than 130 definitions of everything from ActionScript to zoom. It includes simple definitions for commonly used terms such as convergence, geotagging, flame war and technologies like Drupal, Creative Commons, and Ruby on Rails.
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Other design-related postings:
Fabulously cool: Icons for any designer creation — from SmashingApps.com
