In Lab 8, we’re gathering audio using digital audio recorders, editing audio using Audacity, and uploading our audio onto our WordPress blogs, all in real time. Below is a list of instructions to guide you through the process » Read the rest of the entry..
We’re providing handouts with photography and Photoshop instructions in Lab 7. Below is a full run-down of those instructions. » Read the rest of the entry..
Had some requests this week that we post our lab notes/instructions for last term’s lab on widgets, maps, interactivity, and tagging. Glad to do it.
The full instruction is after the jump: » Read the rest of the entry..
Just a quick suggestion for all students taking the online journalism labs:
If possible, best to bring a memory stick and headphones to each lab. I’m seeing students frequently run out of space on their desktops to save video/audio files, and without headphones, it makes listening to your video and audio footage a tad difficult (i.e. impossible).
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..
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
Broadcast and print students from the MA in International Journalism at City University, London are today putting their online journalism skills to work as protests and other events related to the G20 Summit get underway around the capital.
The students, led by broadcast student Alex Wood, will be using Qik, Twitpic, blogging, as well as of course Twitter to cover events as they actually happen. They have selected a special Twitter hashtag, #g20ct, to link their ‘tweets’ together.
These various media are being aggregated on a web page also entirely put together by these students: http://tinyurl.com/g20live.
Extended video footage and photography from the day is also being collected and could be available as early as tomorrow.
I’ve created a two-page guide to connecting to a server using FTP, plus an explanation of what FTP is and how it’s useful to us. You can download that here.
If you are using Wordpress for your portfolio, you will also find this one-page cheat sheet helpful to get started. If you get through that and still have questions, I encourage you to check http://codex.wordpress.org/, which is Wordpress’s official documentation website. It’s very user-friendly and extremely thorough. You can of course mail me (Marcus) through the contact form on this site, but the chances are I’ll just have to look at the Wordpress site myself (hmm, something about giving a man a fish or teaching him how to fish comes to mind).
Smartest documentation/instructions to follow.
Many of you (and understandably in my view) have asked if your portfolios are stuck being accessed at via the rather hideous hostnames that I have set up for you automatically (something like http://abxx123.wordpress.city-1.vsccreative.com). You’ll be pleased to hear that the answer is no. » Read the rest of the entry..
An interesting point has come up in a lot of the lab sessions, as well as in the feedback survey that we conducted last week.
There are a lot of different ways you could run something that is referred to in print as an “online journalism lab”.
We could teach you all a formulaic set of steps to produce the same identical output for each student.
There have even been two or three isolated requests for this. To those two or three people I can only say “sorry”.
Instead, I’d like to explain clearly what we are doing in the labs, why we are doing it that way, what you should expect from us, and what we are expecting from you, the students. » Read the rest of the entry..
