Today I saw the creepiest video – actually a flash movie production created by Robin Sloan, formerly of the Poynter Institute for something called the Museum of Media History, which I’m pretty sure is a construct of this video.
The video tells the story of how Google and Amazon destroy the current media establishment by creating [...]
Do you remember that very creative Volkswagon campaign “Driver’s Wanted.” Sometimes I wonder if journalism needs to do a “Boys Wanted” campaign.
At my school, especially in the Yearbook class, boys just don’t sign up. I have nearly 40 kids signed up for yearbook next year, but only about 4 are boys. That [...]
I’ve mentioned in this blog before that I seriously wonder if what we do will be called journalism in 10 years. I’m still not so sure. Will we have media – oh, yes! More than we can ever need or use. But how much journalism will get done? Who knows. Today I saw two articles [...]
Watching the news is like eating vegetables for most Americans. And so we get our “news” more and more from outlets that give us less and less news. There have been a lot of studies about this lately. This fall, I am going to definitely teach a lesson that focuses [...]
Back in 1998, I bought a CD collection of fonts, graphics, and etc. Over the years we have used the heck out of it for maps, graphics, borders, fonts and more. But there are more than 10,000 graphics and more than 1,200 fonts – so I wasn’t ready to throw them away when [...]
Wow, in only a couple of days the district went from blacking out photos to apologizing to the student – that is the power of the press. If you don’t know, look back at this and then see today’s story.
I still say that the district, as well as the school, and even the yearbook [...]
I’ve mentioned some of these before and will continue to update the Cool Downloads tab, so here they are. Most are free, but some do have a price tag attached.
1. Apple iMovie: This workhorse application, along with some well thought out plug in purchases, can be the mainstay of an in-house TV [...]
I just saw this today, a gay student in New Jersey bought an ad in his high school yearbook for $150. The school is blacking out the photos before they distribute the book. Ouch all around.
I wouldn’t want to be the kid who didn’t get what he paid for. I wouldn’t want to be the [...]
Today, the Supreme Court struck down a Ninth Circuit Court ruling protecting the right of a student to put up a banner during a school event that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.” I’m not surprised at the ruling, and frankly have two minds about it.
First, I do think that we need to be careful as [...]
What if you have one video camera or maybe a digital camera or two that can shoot short videos, but you can’t afford a video editor? Well, there are options. The first one I’m going to feature is the hot, new, buzzed one – You Tube Remixer powered by Adobe. This is [...]
