Tag Archives: moving online
Assessing a crazy converged newsroom
Posted on 14. Oct, 2011 by Michelle Balmeo.
Tweet This year we took two separate publications, a print newspaper staff and an online staff, and merged them into one staff that produces a monthly newsmagazine and a daily website. It’s become one big, crazy newsroom with lots of bodies moving in different directions working on wildly different assignments all at the same time. [...]
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From Small to Big: The Challenges of Staff Size
Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
Tweet Five students. At the beginning of last year, that’s all I had in my newspaper production class. I wondered: How is anything going to get done? Twenty-five: The current number of students in my newspaper class. I still wonder: How is anything going to get done? The circumstances maybe the different, but the challenge [...]
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Run MAMP with Word Press locally, without access to a server
Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 by Michelle Harmon.
Tweet MAMP– Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP–installs a local server environment on Mac OS X computers. Consider installing this free software program (or a paid version) on each staff lab computer to allow students to experiment with Word Press without having any impact on server files. It’s a safe zone for learners (and teachers)! Students can [...]
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How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: The Final Month
Posted on 01. May, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
Tweet May: It’s one of the best times to be a teacher; and it’s one of the worst. How do you motivate your staff to finish the year strong? At our school, with May comes: prom, awards ceremonies, senior sports nights, AP testing, dance marathon, a talent show, an art show, the last week of [...]
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How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: Immediate Content
Posted on 15. Mar, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
Tweet When Niles West News debuted, I knew we had to update often; otherwise, readers wouldn’t come back to the site. But how immediate does an a student-run website need to be? Once you and your staff make the decision to “go online,” the ability (and the pressure) to be immediate is there. For most [...]
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How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: Increasing Pageviews Part 2
Posted on 21. Feb, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
Tweet Last time, I wrote about how the website I advise recently received 100,000 pageviews. You can read the first five ways to increase your pageviews here, but here’s five more: 6. Emails to Faculty and Staff Adult readership is important and should not be overlooked. Every few weeks, when we have new content that [...]
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How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: Increasing Pageviews
Posted on 13. Feb, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
Tweet This week, the website I advise, Niles West News, received its 100,000th pageview. Considering our site went live less than five months ago, I am pretty proud. This was a huge milestone for my staff–and I think they now realize that people are actually reading/viewing their work! Our principal is even throwing us a [...]
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Developing websites in Firefox easier with add-on
Posted on 17. Jan, 2011 by Michelle Balmeo.
Tweet A few years ago, after losing a lot of hair trying to develop a website for my local organization, scanning through cascading style sheets that were hundreds of lines long and keeping elaborate documents to track image sizes and colors, I finally stumbled across the Firefox Web Developer add-on. It’s a simple tool that [...]
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Managing rolling deadlines
Posted on 10. Jan, 2011 by Michelle Balmeo.
Tweet In the video above, you’ll see the steps that the staff of El Estoque takes to manage deadlines for its online publication. Here’s a condensed version of the process: Before class on Monday, head editors send a Google form to all staff, which is used to pitch stories. In class on Monday, the staff [...]
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