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Column: A Beastly Newsweek
Posted on 14. Mar, 2011 by Jonathan Rogers.
RESOURCE TINA BROWN: NPR Merger of ‘The Daily Beast’ and ‘Newsweek’ WEBSITES SHOULD… Break News Weekly and Monthly Publications Should… Go In-Depth and Focus on the Future After a year of discussing how a website and the old paper should work together I found the above podcast very useful for students to listen [...]
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Chickens, Dinosaurs and Internet Teams
Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Rogers.
For the new year I decided to try a new organizational strategy to encourage more posts on the Web site and integration with the print publication. The idea is to use Internet Teams that compete against each other. Each team will have a week to rack up as many points as possible. Points are earned [...]
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Starting a Digital Book Library
Posted on 08. Dec, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
The availability of eBooks is expanding by the thousands at local library’s Web sites and by the millions with the addition of Google’s new bookstore. Google’s new store offers downloaded books for computers, iPhones, Androids, Nooks, Kindles, and Sony Readers. To read a book on a computer using ePub requires Adobe Digital Editions. A program [...]
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Cyberbullying and teaching digital media awareness
Posted on 29. Nov, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
Student digital publications are facing grave and valid concerns from administrators and parents about the new wild world of the internet. To go online brings up growing concerns of cyberbullying and civility. Educating students on how to use the internet responsibly are professors like Dr. Patchin from the Cyber Bullying Research center who also teaches [...]
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Create an ISSUU Group!
Posted on 22. Nov, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
Recently, I created an ISSUU group to try and lure Iowa High School Publications to share their newspapers online. If you are an Iowa adviser click here to join. The idea is to share our publications online, save postage, and showcase great work. So far it is starting out slowly, but the advantages are immense. [...]
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Two WordPress Plugins to Speed Up Your Site
Posted on 28. Oct, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
After developing any site there comes a time when all the great stories, photos and videos start to slow down the load time. To fix this problem there are two WordPress Plugins that will compress photos and solve cache or coding problems. They are WP Super Cache and WP Smush.it. There are a few other [...]
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VIDEO INTERVIEWS: Using Flip cameras and online sharing to improve convergence
Posted on 04. Oct, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
Conducting interviews with a video camera is a technique that many reporters are now using to increase accuracy and post instant responses online. Click here for a recent post using video interviews after a school play. “I think they liked it. They clapped,” Sobaski, an actor being video taped in a recent school production, said. [...]
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Improved WordPress photo galleries and slide shows
Posted on 29. Sep, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
After parent teacher conferences ended I came away with one resounding thought from parents. “WE WANT MORE PHOTOS ONLINE!” Not only did they want more photos on the Web site, but they wanted to see them in thumbnail galleries and cool flash slide shows. To my surprise there are an assortment of new WordPress plug-ins [...]
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Professional reporter encourages linking sites and video interviewing
Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
Christoph Trappe did a guest lecture in my class today on convergence media and posted a quick story on my Mickey Mouse ears. (CLICK HERE) He discussed the new structure of media at Gazette Communications and his career path. When he left reporting he had been writer. On his return he is now a video [...]
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