Archive for 'Hardware'
Secrets of a Successful Broadcast Journalism Program
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Michael Hernandez.
Tweet The challenges of establishing and maintaining a broadcast journalism program are numerous. How do you generate story ideas? What do you say to students who want to produce a comedy show? How do you grade students? What are the best cameras and editing systems to use and how many will you need? And then [...]
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Journalism Using Mobile Devices
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Michael Hernandez.
Tweet This is an abbreviated version of a presentation I gave at the 2011 NSPA/JEA National convention in Minneapolis. While it’s missing my verbal explanation, it still has some useful info about apps, accessories, how my staff uses Google Docs and reasons why you’d want to try doing this with your staff. Also missing is [...]
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Maintenance Mode WordPress Plugin Allows You to Work Offline
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet Every now and then the staff needs to do some major work on the site, this might be before a launch or it may center around a redesign. Many staffs don’t want the world to see the site as it’s being built or rebuilt. The Maintenance Mode plugin is a great solution to use [...]
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SNDSTL Takeaways: A list of links to keep you busy for awhile
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet I’m going to be honest here, this is going to be a mess of a post. I just came off of a three-day brain buffet at the SND conference in St. Louis and I’m still trying to make sense of everything that I saw and heard. It should give me post material on this site [...]
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We’ve Posted Our “Guide to Moving Online”
Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet After more than 300 posts to the site, we decided it was time to compile some of them into a guide to help advisers and staffs with their journeys online. So, we created a “Guide to Moving Online.” You will find everything from Planning and Social Media to Comment and Publicity advice. The committee [...]
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Backup your staff’s work on an external drive each year
Posted on 22. May, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet I realized this week I need a better system for archiving the year that was. Years ago, with countless negatives and fewer digital files, the task was a bit more daunting. However, in this day and age when 99% of what we do is digital, there is no reason not to have an archiving [...]
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What to do if your district won’t let you host your website yourself
Posted on 01. Apr, 2011 by Jim Streisel.
Tweet An adviser I taught at a recent multimedia workshop last year emailed me with a plea for help. Here’s what she wrote: “My district is making me shut our WordPress site down. Apparently our district policy states that we aren’t allowed to use sites outside of our own servers. (I didn’t know about this [...]
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Mobile Reporting Tools Guide Available at RJIOnline.org
Posted on 02. Dec, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet 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 [...]
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iPad: Early impressions for journalism education
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Tweet Written by David Schwartz and Robert Gutsche Jr. For two days last week, the two of us, both journalism educators, avid news-users and news men, attempted to use Apple’s iPad for all of our electronic communications needs. We put away the laptops, pads of paper and our pens. Why? To see how our media [...]
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