Hi everybody – the portfolio websites are now open again and your original passwords have been reinstated.

Our sincerest apologies for the delay – the marking was done months ago, but the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly.

Stay tuned for migration instructions!

Marcus, Chris and Gary

Hi Everyone,

We can’t wait to see what you’ve done because everything we’ve seen so far has really looked great.

We know you’ve been wondering about how you hand these in, so thanks for being patient.

To hand in your portfolio, click this magic link, and fill out the form you see (please fill out the form only once).

And presto! you can do it from anywhere in the world and whenever you like, provided it’s before the deadline.

The deadline is 5pm on Tuesday May 4th.

Marcus

Most of you should have had instruction on using Flip cameras and editing your films in Windows Movie Maker. The full instructions are after the jump » Read the rest of the entry..

Since we’ll be unable to offer any further domain setup sessions, I thought I’d put up this brief guide for students who have bought domain names via Gandi.net and would like to use them.

Other domain registrars will vary, but carefully following these steps will ensure that your domain is properly set up. » Read the rest of the entry..

In Lab 4, we’re discussing how people read online content, and effective ways to write for the online audience. Here’s a few resources we’re covering in the labs:

Eye-tracking visualizations: See how online readers read.

More on how people tend to scan online data, from MediaBistro.

25 tips for better online writing, from the Poynter Institute.

A quick run-down on online writing from the online magazine Orato.

Winners of the 2009 Webby Awards for best news websites.

“Engage with your readers,” and other good online writing tips.

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The handout for lab 2 on HTML and CSS can be downloaded from here.

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.