Tag Archives: video

13 Steps for Creating a Student News Package

13 Steps for Creating a Student News Package

Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by .

Each month as a class, my students and I watch our monthly television show Ladue View, to critique what we did well, and what we need to improve upon. After watching a recent show, we decided that once again there were some easily correctable, missed steps, that our students failed to prepare for, during their video [...]

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How to Embed Video from Youtube to your WordPress site

How to Embed Video from Youtube to your WordPress site

Posted on 30. Dec, 2011 by .

Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required.While your WordPress site allows you to host video there, I’m a fan of uploading my videos to other hosts and using the embed code to place the videos in WordPress. There are a lot of great options for hosting your video like Schooltube, Youtube and Vimeo. Each [...]

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Putting Video First

Putting Video First

Posted on 01. Nov, 2011 by .

When we started putting content online, we made one of our top goals to be getting new content on the website every day.  For the most part, we did that pretty well.  We had smaller stories, a couple of decent photos, but there was one thing missing:  video.

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Video editing is easy and free with new JayCut

Video editing is easy and free with new JayCut

Posted on 20. Dec, 2010 by .

About a year ago, I wrote a post about a new web-based video editor called JayCut. Not long after that post, the company took the site offline to make some improvements. Don’t you just hate when that happens? Fortunately, for those of us who are technology poor, JayCut is live again with a new and [...]

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Got an iPhone? WordPress makes it easier to post video

Got an iPhone? WordPress makes it easier to post video

Posted on 01. Oct, 2010 by .

Now it’s getting even easier to post video to your WordPress site. Here’s a link to a MacLife article about WordPress for iOS v2.6. It’s a free app for your iPhone or video-equipped iPod Touch.

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Kobre: 5 Things Missing From Most Online News Videos

Kobre: 5 Things Missing From Most Online News Videos

Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by .

Kenneth Kobre, photojournalism instructor at San Francisco State University and author of “Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach,” recently wrote a post on his blog titled 5 Things We Can’t Believe Are Still Missing From Most Online News Videos. The 5 things they list are: Title Date Credits Links Navigation/Organization Check out the post to find out [...]

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11 Tips for Creating Better Online Video from SmartBlogs.com

11 Tips for Creating Better Online Video from SmartBlogs.com

Posted on 06. Sep, 2010 by .

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 [...]

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[Video] How to Use Filezilla to Transfer Files

Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by .

Filezilla is a cross-platform FTP client that is free and fairly easy to use. At first, the interface may look a bit intimidating, but once you get all of the boxes figured out, finding your way around isn’t too difficult. This video gives you a basic guide to connecting with Filezilla and moving files from [...]

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How to Easily Resize Your Photos for the Web Using Resizeyourimage.com

Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by .

Resizeyourimage.com is a great way for students to easily reduce the file size of an image for the Web. They can use this at school or from home as long as they have internet connection. Not only does it reduce file size, it also allows users to choose the width and heigth they need the [...]

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