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About Aaron Manfull

Aaron is in his 15th year of advising student media. He is currently the Director of Student Media at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Missouri. He is the Journalism Education Association Digital Media Chair and co-Director of Media Now STL. He created The Next 26 and is a former Dow Jones News Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year. You can find him on Twitter @manfull. He's a proud father. A transplanted Iowan. And an avid Hawkeye Fan.

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From PR Daily: Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet

Thanks to PR Daily for this great post today. I’ve often found myself scouring the web to find the right size needed for a social upload. Today’s post, “How to size images on social


Watch the replay of last night’s “The Doctors Are In: Broadcast Edition” here

There was a great CoverItLive web chat hosted last night by NSPA featuring broadcast advisers Don Goble and Matt Rasgorshek. For an hour they answered questions, offered tips and shared some of what goes


Don’t forget: Tune in tonight at 6 p.m (CST) to the NSPA online Broadcast chat

Don’t forget to tune in tonight at 6 p.m. CST for “The Doctors Are In: Broadcast Edition.” This CoverItLive online chat hosted by NSPA will feature JEADigitalMedia.org frequent contributors Don Goble of Ladue High


Steve Buttry Blog: How to Verify Information from Tweets

Steve Buttry post a great piece on his blog last week dealing with verifying information from Twitter. It really is a must-read for students. He covers a substantial number of tips and provides links


Hosting a 2013 Summer Digital Media Workshop? Tell us about it.

If your organization is hosting a summer journalism workshop that has a digital media component to it, we’d love to hear about it and list it on our “2013 Workshops” page. Just fill out


Coulson: Top 10 Multimedia Skills New Journalists Should Have

I had this nice list shared with me yesterday. It was posted by Melanie Coulson on her blog. It’s her list of skills new multimedia journalists must have. It’s a nice list of six


Our 12 Most Read Posts from 2012

2012 was a big year for us. We added the “Guide to Broadcast and Video” and continued building upon the foundation we began years ago. Here are our 10 most read posts of the


Apps for the student journalist: iPhoto

What: iPhoto Platform: iOS Cost: $4.99 There are lots of great photo editing apps out there, however, iPhoto is one that does everything I want and need it to do. While filters and effects are nice, they


Apps for the student journalist: iMovie

What: iMovie Platform: iOS, Cost: $4.99 I think there are two things that keep many schools from moving into video: the learning curve of the software and the cost of the equipment. If you have an iPod,