On 02/16/2010,
in blogs / blogging / vlogging, design, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital video, journalism, multimedia, social learning / networks, web design and production, writing,
by Daniel Christian
The Digital Journalist’s Handbook is composed of 12 chapters, each covering a different tool in the digital journalist’s arsenal:
THE NEW MEDIA MINDSET
An examination of the current state of journalism and what it means to be a digital journalist.
WRITING FOR THE WEB
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Headlines
• Linking
• Breaking news
• Comments
• Analytics
• Computer-assisted reporting
BLOGGING
• Getting started
• Blog platforms
• Design
• Other types of blogs
• RSS
• Creating a successful blog
PHOTOGRAPHY
• Choosing a camera
• Composing a photo
• Shooting in the field
• Digital photo editing
AUDIO
• Choosing an audio recorder
• Microphones and accessories
• Recording in the field
• Interviewing
• Ambient sound
• Narration
• Audio editing
• Posting and sharing audio
• Podcasting
AUDIO SLIDESHOWS
• Creating the slideshow
• Soundslides
VIDEO
• Choosing a camera
• Camera accessories
• Composing video
• Recording in the field
• Interviewing
• Video editing
• Posting and sharing video
WEB DESIGN
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• HTML
• CSS
• Journalism and programming
SOCIAL NETWORKING
• Twitter
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Digg
• StumbleUpon
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Delicious
• Making the most of social networks
DATA VISUALIZATION
• Interactive maps
• Databases
• Creating a visualization
FLASH
• The Flash interface
• The capabilities of Flash
• Publishing Flash files
• The disadvantages of Flash
WHAT NOW?
Advice and lessons on what digital journalists should do with the tools they learn
GLOSSARY
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.
Reading 2.0: Bluebonnet Books + Moodle + Video Conferencing — from ClassroomNext.blogspot.com by Roxanne Glaser
Partnered with Baylor University
Overview: Baylor students partner with local elementary students using Bluebonnet Books. Baylor students act as reading mentors for children and final project is a seven minute dramatization of the book.
The Big Picture:
- Teachers select books (Bluebonnet Books)
- Baylor students meet their partner classes via video conference
- Each class and their Baylor partners Moodle
- Each class creates 7 minute presentation to sell their books
Teaching writing in a social media age: one recent example — from NITLE and Bryan Alexander
(Discusses opportunities for engagement via blogging and digital video.)
On 01/30/2010,
in blogs / blogging / vlogging, education technology, engagement / engaging students, writing,
by Daniel Christian
Not Blogging in WordPress: Innovative Faculty Use of WordPress MU for Teaching and Scholarship (Learning Technology) — from Educause
“Faculty members and educational technologists have great ideas about new ways to enhance teaching and learning with technology. However, sometimes the available tools make these innovative ideas awkward or impossible to implement without customization. At St. Lawrence University, we have found WordPress MU to be surprisingly flexible, offering us the opportunity to use it in a variety of ways without any customization. In this session, we will look at current ways that a single instance of WPMU is being used for various purposes-sometimes bearing little or no resemblance to blogging-and meeting the needs of our faculty with no customization.”
mu.wordpress.org
Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process — from Robin Good’s Latest News by Janelle Ward
On 01/26/2010,
in digital storytelling, writing,
by Daniel Christian
Writing Is More Than Ink on a Page Today
Literacy today means not only the ability to read and write, but to create and comprehend an integrated mix of words, sounds, videos and images. Meet teachers and students who are leading the way.
Digital Storytelling with 4-Year-Olds
What happens when 4 and 5-year-olds have access to media tools?
Some evidence shows it can increase literacy levels. At USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy they invited some local preschoolers to participate in a workshop on digital storytelling designed for graduate students. Would the same principals of story structure, camera functionality, and editing apply? Could students this young understand screen-based narrative?
Turns out, the kids got it right away. Digital storytelling, one preschooler explained, is “the same as storytelling except it’s on a screen.”
On 01/25/2010,
in writing,
by Daniel Christian
Top 100 Blogs to Improve Your Writing in 2010 — from universitiesandcolleges.org