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9 Sep

Digital storytelling in 10 easy steps

This is a simple 10 step tutorial for creating powerful, effective digital stories. It comes from J.D. Lasica, executive director of Ourmedia, and is based, in part, on a workshop […]

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6 Dec

Video tutorial for Google Reader

If you are trying to teach or encourage your students to use RSS feeds, specifically through Google Reader, you may find this online video tutorial helpful as a teaching aid or […]

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3 Dec

Videos to help explain new online tools to students

The website below contains links to a library of simple, short videos that teachers may find useful to introduce lessons about a wide range of new online tools. Common Craft […]

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26 Nov

A recipe for new media training from Columbia U

Columbia University in New York launched a new course for new media majors in September. If, like so many j-educators, you are looking for ideas about how to teach multimedia […]

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22 Nov

A basic primer about new digital media tools and practices

If you feel as though you have fallen behind and need to catch up quickly on all the new tools and practices being used by journalists online these days, you may […]

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24 Sep

Don’t forget the value of hyperlinking

“Hyperlinks not only can help provide informative context to information within a story, they also can help keep a story alive long after its original publication,” says Robert Niles at […]

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4 Sep

Online journalism seminar syllabus

It’s a challenging course for graduate students at UC Berkley’s School of Journalism about the new practices that are redefining journalism. Students are told they will learn about major new trends in […]

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23 Aug

Video tutorials about new online tools

This website includes links to a few short, effective tutorials about such things as using RSS readers, DIGG basics, blogging and alerts that online journalism students are bound to find useful […]

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22 Aug

When blogs produce good journalism

If you are teaching a journalism course about blogs, or using blogs,  you may find this list by Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU helpful. It is an initital list […]

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21 Aug

Lessons learned from teaching a first course in online journalism

An instructor who took on the challenge of teaching a senior workshop in online journalism at a university in Texas outlines how he tried to ensure the focus remained on […]

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