Posts filed under “education”
Final project at online storytelling seminar
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, but in real life, I would have spent more time. I would have called ahead [...]
Thumbs up for Online Storytelling seminar at Poynter
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 seminar had many audio slideshow neophytes but also people who had some experience with audio [...]
More thoughts on Poynter
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. Right? The unique problem of creating audio slideshows is often people work on them by [...]
Poynter day 2: Attitude is everything
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 of those programs you can learn in five minutes. I’m not kidding. But knowing how [...]
Offering bonuses for new media training
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 media skills. Instead, we want to encourage people. Basically, it would work something like this: [...]
Heading down to Florida for a Poynter seminar
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 does mean there will be updates on the conference itself. I know a lot of [...]
J-schools have a lot to answer for
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. The journalists who grew up with computers and the Web are often the ones least [...]
WordPress and learning new media
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 for a free blog at WordPress.com, but there is a better solution for people who [...]
Journalism skills in 2007
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 should have. As much as I harp on the need to have a varied skill [...]