As a former Boy Scout, one of the lessons I have taken to heart is the Scout motto – “Be Prepared.” Visual Journalists – video and photo have to haul a lot of gear to a lot of places. And what you never want to do is go back or worse be too [...]
As a former Boy Scout, one of the lessons I have taken to heart is the Scout motto – “Be Prepared.” Visual Journalists – video and photo have to haul a lot of gear to a lot of places. And what you never want to do is go back or worse be too [...]
Are you “Gooder At Grammar?” Take the quiz – fun! I actually scored 100 percent.
I like to call them little mountains to my students and I know enough to correctly use a histogram to color correct a photo using Levels in Photoshop. But, I’m still learning how to use a histogram when I shoot.
I am going to try “exposing to the right” a technique that I’ve heard about [...]
With so many pro newspaper and magazines trying to create video on their own web sites, it is a good time to visit how much does it cost? Over the years our Journalism department has morphed into a Media department as we have added a TV program, a web site and now a video [...]
For too long journalism has not had high enough standards. From the pros allowing Jason Blair or Stephen Glass to get by on personality, and not having enough focus on the web, to colleges not requiring enough math, business and technology classes for j-majors, down to high school programs not competing hard enough for [...]
I started this blog back in April as a place to keep useful links to web resources that I find useful in teaching journalism and media. I also use it as a place to share things with other teachers I know and to record my thoughts and ideas about teaching.
It sometimes strikes my funny bone [...]
When I first started teaching, back in the dark ages before the dinosaurs, 13 years ago – we in the publishing business were the weirdos. Why? Because most of us used Macs and shunned Wintel (Windows/Intel) boxes.
There were a lot of good reasons for this too. This was the days of Windows 95 and Aldus [...]
This CNN Graph says it all. Too many commercials, too much fluff, not enough news.
When you want news, go to the net. Find what you want to read about, waste little time, done. TV and Newspapers just don’t get it. No wonder they are dying.
Mr. C
While reading a blog post I began to think that the end of a year (calendar, not school) is a good time to take stock. What have I learned this year? How can it help us? What actions should we take on it?
The blog, freelance switch, recommends answering five questions to see what you have [...]
As with all things digital, there is always a learning curve when trying something new. If you are using digital photography for your yearbook or newspaper, then you really should be using levels or curves to “fix” your digital photos before press.
One of the most difficult thing is getting good color consistently from a [...]
