Audio
Perspective: Why You Shouldn’t Use Music in Broadcast Stories
Nothing bugs me more than news stories with music. I know, I know, I’ve heard the argument: “The pros do it!” But the pros do a lot of things, like buy helicopters to follow high speed car chases, and dedicate valuable airtime to segments about Justin Bieber’s love life. Just because someone gets paid to […]
Audio is just as important, if not more, than the video.
Imagine interviewing someone who just told you one of the most heart-warming stories you have ever heard. Or, they just told you a profound idea that will make the sound bite Hall of Fame. Now imagine going back to the editing room and realizing the microphone didn’t work. Forgot the headphones too, huh? Even worse, […]
Convert your Soundslides audio slideshow to an mp4 video file
Soundslides is a great multimedia tool for journalists to tell stories. We have posted about it before on this site. While it is a great program, there are times when people want to take their slideshow and turn it into a single video file rather than the multi-layered structure it natively exports to. The converter […]
Mobile Reporting Tools Guide Available at RJIOnline.org
Will Sullivan has created a great resource for reporting on the go. It’s a guide reviewing mobile tools of all shapes, sizes and purposes. The Gear Guide that he compiled has reviewed products in 15 different categories. The Applications section has categories ranging from Audio Editing Apps and File Transmission Apps to Note Taking Apps […]
Hands-on multi-media seminars now offered at NSPA convention
The National Scholastic Press Association and JEA have unveiled seven hands-on seminars for broadcast and digital media journalists at their national convention in Kansas City on November 11-13. The seminars will take place in a Macintosh lab provided by Apple, Inc. Seminars are taught by Apple Distinguished Educators and other working professionals who bring real-world […]
11 Tips for Creating Better Online Video from SmartBlogs.com
This article came out over the summer, but I figured the masses would benefit from a post more now rather than in late July. It’s from SmartBlogs.com and it’s titled “11 Tips for Creating Better Online Video.” While this post isn’t specifically geared toward high school journalists, it’s a nice, simple list of tips for […]
Happy Birthday To Us! Our Top 10 Most Read Digital Media Posts From the Past Year
Happy Birthday to us! Happy Birthday to us! Happy Birthday JEADigitalMedia.org! Happy Birthday to us! It’s been exactly one today since we officially launched ourselves to the JEA Listserv. During that time we’ve worked to help expand digital media offerings at the JEA/NSPA spring and fall conventions and we have worked to provide weekly content […]
![[Handout] Soundslides Rubric for Multimedia Slideshows](http://jeadigitalmedia.org/images/stories/soundslideheader.jpg "[Handout] Soundslides Rubric for Multimedia Slideshows")
[Handout] Soundslides Rubric for Multimedia Slideshows
Alan Weintraut has shared a Soundslides rubric he created for his students at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia.The rubric covers photography, audio, deadlines and editing. Download the Soundslides Rubric Here
VoiceThread: One Advisers Experiment With This Multimedia Tool
Podcasts and Voice Thread slide shows. I made a brief slide show of my son walking around as R2D2 on Halloween as an example. http://voicethread.com/share/931107/
