Category Archives: education

Final project at online storytelling seminar

Posted on January 19, 2008 by pat

I did my Poynter project on a no kill animal shelter in St. Petersburg. Now, the projects that most of us did probably would have been handled differently in a real-world situation. I spent a few hours at the shelter, … Continue reading →

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Thumbs up for Online Storytelling seminar at Poynter

Posted on January 19, 2008 by pat

I can now officially recommend the Online Storytelling With Audio & Images seminar at Poynter. Creating an audio slideshow is easy. Creating a great audio slideshow is hard. This seminar can help show you how to make the latter. The … Continue reading →

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More thoughts on Poynter

Posted on January 17, 2008 by pat

Multimedia journalism is one of those funny things in life. Most of the people producing it weren’t originally multimedia — they were monomedia. If you’re a photographer you just add some audio skills and all the sudden you have multimedia. … Continue reading →

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Poynter day 2: Attitude is everything

Posted on January 15, 2008 by pat

I’ve noticed that many of the participants have done multimedia journalism before and used Soundslides. Those journalists, much like me, are not here to learn how to do something new, but rather how to do something better. Soundslides is one … Continue reading →

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Offering bonuses for new media training

Posted on January 11, 2008 by pat

Our new executive editor and I discussed the idea that maybe we should give employees bonuses if they go through new media training. The idea is that we don’t want to mandate (at least not yet) that people learn new … Continue reading →

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Heading down to Florida for a Poynter seminar

Posted on January 10, 2008 by pat

I’ll be heading off to Poynter this Saturday for a seminar on online storytelling with audio and images. That means there will not be a lot of updates next week on the state of journalism and Web development. But it … Continue reading →

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J-schools have a lot to answer for

Posted on November 19, 2007 by pat

The blogverse have been inflamed about which journalists get “it” and are willing to embrace online journalism. Their is a disturbing paradox, however, that surrounds which journalists are willing to embrace online journalism and add new skills to their repertoire. … Continue reading →

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WordPress and learning new media

Posted on September 14, 2007 by pat

Getting a WordPress blog is a great way to add new media skills and to experiment with Web development. I suggested yesterday that j-school students and journalists who want to learn how to use a content management system sign up … Continue reading →

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Journalism skills in 2007

Posted on September 13, 2007 by pat

It’s clear that in this day and age journalism students and journalists need to know more than just words. But what exactly do they need to know? Mindy McAdams has an excellent blog post about the skills that journalism students … Continue reading →

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