Archive
15 Dec

Six things all j-students need

I wonder, writes Ryerson University online journalism instructor Leigh Felesky, what students are being told “journalism” is these days. Felesky lays out six skill areas that j-schools should focus on […]

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9 Dec

A guide to digital storytelling from the BBC

This is a step by step guide from the BBC about how to produce digitial stories, which it defines as “mini-movies” or “short, personal, multimedia scraps of TV that people […]

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6 Oct

Show students how to sculpt in a new medium

If we create j-school curriculum based on secrecy, control and broadcast we’re not training students to lead, writes Wayne MacPhail, we’re teaching them to do what’s already been done, but […]

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13 Sep

Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency

A very gifted, very tech savvy and very generous multimedia professor has produced a 42-page guide to basic mutimedia skills for young journalists and made it available for anyone to download free, […]

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13 Sep

Social media skills for journalists

Teaching j-students to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked In and You Tube, is something most j-schools are beginning to try, or at least consider. For those looking […]

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1 Sep

Tips, tools and tutorials for better online skills

One of the best sources of advice, links and lessons for anyone who wants to teach themselves or others to be better online journalists is the blog, Teaching Online Journalism, […]

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26 Aug

Online tutorials for multimedia beginners

You can find tutorials and tip sheets to teach yourself a variety of multimedia tools from making Google maps to telling stories with audio and video at a vareity of different […]

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15 Jun

Teaching students to blog

New York University professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen led an online chat at Poynter recently to offer advice about to teach blogging and answer questions from educators about things […]

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25 Feb

Teaching j-students about Twitter

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is twittering. Or,  if they’re not, they feel they should be. Journalists who first dismissed it as a useless time waster are now seeing it as a […]

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6 Jan

The role of blogs in journalism education

ByAlfred Hermida Blogs have become part of the editorial furniture of most news sites. In the U.S., 95% of the top 100 newspapers feature reporter blogs. So it seems appropriate […]

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