The handout for lab 2 on HTML and CSS can be downloaded from here.
Archive for October 2009
By now most of you in my online journalism labs seem to be comfortable with the basic functions of your WordPress blogs, but if you need some additional guidance, these WordPress tutorials might come in handy. » Read the rest of the entry..
Many of you have expressed a desire to use your own domain name with your online portfolios. This is not problem, though if you haven’t already done so, you’ll need to purchase a domain first. Please refer to my earlier post (from last year) about this.
However, due to the popularity of this option we’ve had a lot of individual e-mail requests for the set up at our server. To effectively manage this and be sure that everybody who wants to use their own domain is accomodated, we are going to hold a domain special day.
This will be held on Monday October 26th, 2009 from 12:45pm-1:30pm. The location and any changes or other information will be announced via our Twitter, @cutlines.
If you’re on the Writing and Editing for Electronic Media module that we run for the MA in Electronic Publishing, then please note that we’ve put up a new page dedicated to this module, as it’s not the same as the Online Journalism module.
On that page is a brief course outline and a link to a full, three-page downloadable outline.
Just a few follow-up items regarding the first round of Online Labs that we facilitated in the past two weeks:
For those of you who need an FTP to work on your blogs from home, our “Getting Cozy With FTP” handout suggested FileZilla for PCs or CyberDuck for Macs. Keep in mind that while we trust them, in general you install all freely-downloaded software at your own risk.
If some of you are still searching for that perfect theme for your blog, remember that you can download them, using your FTP, here.
For those of you who had your labs with me (Gary Moskowitz), here are links to some of the online stories we discussed:
We talked about the Torture Playlist as an example of incorporating audio to help tell a print journalism story in different ways online. Most of my labs also discussed Epic 2014, which is an online story about the history and possible future of the Internet.
This is a list of the links referred to in Lecture #1 on Introducing Online Journalism by Chris Brauer:
Pre-Lecture
Video – History of Internet
Video – Tornado
Music
Arcade Fire, Neighbourhood #1
Smiths, Oscillate Wildly
Radiohead, Karma Police
Cutlines Module
Details of course, curriculum and assessment on Cutlines
Case Studies
- Tour de France (Lance Armstrong Twitter feed)
- Virginia Tech shootings
- The Murder of Meredith and the Media
- Subversion – Mark Bowden
- Video – Pacino in the Insider
- Chelsea article in the Times (comments no longer available)
- Google News and United Airlines
- Leaking Moon Water (BBC description)
- Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
- Running the Numbers (artist Chris Jordan)
- Video – Flight 1549 reenactment
