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Build your own web design or individualize your WordPress or content management theme

Build your own web design or individualize your WordPress or content management theme

Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by .

After taking a weeklong seminar on web development with Dave Stanton and Sara Quinn at the Poynter Institute this summer in St. Petersburg, Fla., my brain was exploding with the amount of organization, detail, and knowledge web designers need. I came home from the seminar both empowered and discouraged—empowered because I am now armed with [...]

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Twitter Lists Helps You More Easily Find People/Groups You Want to Follow

Posted on 01. Nov, 2009 by .

Twitter rolled out their Lists feature to the masses this week. The feature allows you to group your followers and follow others Lists they have created and made public. Poynter had a post this week on How Journalists Can Use Twitter Lists to Customize, Discover and Curate. List are a nice way to organize those [...]

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Poynter Chat 10/29: How Do I Teach Online Comment Moderation

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by .

The Poynter Educator chat from Thursday Oct. 29, at 1 p.m. EDT. has been archived and is available for viewing. The topic was “How Do I Teach Online Comment Moderation?” NSPA Executive Director Logan Aimone participated in a live chat from Austin, Texas, at the National College Media Convention. Some great material within for advisers [...]

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Reimagining Our Programs as J-Schools Reimagine Theirs

Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by .

Many scholastic journalism advisers are looking to rethink their program structures and some will even be working to re-write/write curriculum this year for their programs. Maurreen Skowran created an interesting post in March on Poynter.org entitled “Reimagining J-School Programs in Midst of Changing News Industry.” It’s an article all journalism advisers should look at as [...]

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Live Chat: Benefits of staffs using Facebook and Twitter

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by .

Okay, your students are using Facebook for fun, but how do you find its journalistic purpose?  Aaron Manfull, the Journalism Education Association’s digital media committee chair, Sarah Nichols, adviser at Whitney High School in Rocklin, Calif., and Wendy Wallace, director of Poynter’s High School Program teamed up for one of Poynter’s weekly journalism educators live [...]

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