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Save time with Splicd to create video excerpts
Posted on 26. Aug, 2011 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet The power of YouTube is pretty tough to deny. Even in school districts where the site is blocked, teachers find and store or share great clips to use with their journalism students. What always bothered me, though, was finding a somewhat useful video with one true gold nugget buried deep in the middle. Do [...]
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[Flashback] A checklist of digital media things to consider before closing out the year
Posted on 18. May, 2011 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet This post was first published in May of 2010 but we thought it would be a nice time to revisit it in 2011. What would you add to the list? With the end of the school year upon us, many of us are in countdown mode. Whatever online system you follow is working [...]
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New app combines crowdsourcing, photojournalism
Posted on 11. Feb, 2011 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet Bringing readers quick coverage with meaningful visuals is a lot like the real estate market. It boils down to one thing: location, location, location. If reporters aren’t on the scene, it’s tough to get photos … or your readers will get the photos somewhere else. But a new app called Tackable might reshape newsgathering [...]
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Multimedia storytelling lets users define the experience
Posted on 18. Jan, 2011 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet Just how interactive is the digital media students are producing these days? Having a multimedia website (one with video, photo galleries, sound) isn’t the same as doing multimedia storytelling. When done well, a multimedia story is nonlinear, complementing a print piece rather than repeating content. The biggie is that the user chooses the path [...]
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Resizing images made simple
Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet With so many new Web tools popping up, it’s easier than ever for student journalists to work from home — or from anywhere with an Internet connection. Although you likely use Adobe Photoshop at school for editing digital images, it’s easy to do basic resizing without it, which enables students to post to your [...]
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Tweeting Sports Takes Practice
Posted on 26. Oct, 2010 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet You’ve made it big time — you’re tweeting from the sidelines, or from the press box, and it feels great. Getting there and making it happen is half the battle. But now that you’ve figured out how to tweet live sports coverage, take the next step. Your tweets should be as professional, complete and [...]
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Not all tweets are created equal: an activity for beginning journalists and Twitter newbies
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet For lots of folks, Twitter is still more of a mystery or “second Facebook” than anything else. They’ve heard about the battle between Lady Gaga and Britney Spears for the most followers, or they read about the recent scandal when Mike Wise of The Washington Post deliberately sent a false tweet about Ben Roethlisberger. [...]
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Start your beginning journalism class by measuring students’ connectivity
Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet As you welcome a new set of students this semester, hopefully you’ll be met by an excited room of media consumers and future journalists. More likely, though, you’ll be met with just as many sets of wide eyes and panicked freshmen. Learning about your students’ existing technology patterns and comfort level with social media [...]
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A Checklist of Digital Media Things To Consider Before Closing Out the Year
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Sarah Nichols.
Tweet With the end of the school year upon us, many of us are in countdown mode. Whatever online system you follow is working smoothly, final print issues are well underway—or put to bed—and it’s tempting to coast toward summer vacation. But since this was THE YEAR so many schools established or developed an online [...]
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