Being A Wired Journalism Teacher

I promised the teachers I spoke to last week that I would add my power point presentation about Being a Wired Journalism Teacher here.  Tomorrow I will add my list of favorite podcasts.

Change Is The Only Constant

Here’s a cool slide show I found via Reportr.net about the death of old media and how new media is different.

Blogged Down

This weekend, I spoke to a group of advisors at the Taylor Yearbook Summer Camp at Texas A&M about technology and I promised to post my list of favorite blogs and iTunes podcasts – so here they are:
My Blog List:
10,000 Words – a blog about using Technology & Journalism
Advancing The Story – a blog about [...]

Summer Camp: Texas A&M Day 4

Last year, I wrote a blog post about whether winning awards was important or not. I still mostly side with the not. But, that being said – it was cool that all five of my kids at journalism camp won an award.
Needless to say they were happy driving home. They did a [...]

Summer Camp: Texas A&M Day 3

Day 3 went really well. The kids were working hard on their projects and I got several compliments on my “Being a Wired Journalism Teacher” presentation.
The camp was much better organized this year and all the classes were basically in two buildings. The food service was closer to the dorms and [...]

Summer Camp: Texas A&M Day 2

Didn’t get it done yesterday. Sorry! I did have a successful day. My “How To Be a Wired Adviser,” talk was fairly successful. The kids got some stuff done on their projects and they learned a few things in class. All those things were really good.
I took one [...]

Summer Camp: Texas A&M Day 1

The first day of camp is always the hardest. It started with my photo editor not showing up, but she had given me a little preview that she would not show earlier. So, then we got started a little late. There was a lot of traffic today because the camp is on [...]

THIS IS JOURNALISM!!!

I couldn’t resist a “300″ knockoff headline for this post. Since it is my 300th post. This blog started on April 14, 2007 and in only 15 1/2 months, I already have 300 posts and just shy of 25,000 hits. Wow! That is a lot more than I imagined I would have [...]

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Tools…

This weekend I have to give a 50 minute presentation to a group of journalism teachers about being a wired journalist.  I wanted to have a resource I could send them in one location.  This is that page.
Web Tools
Browsers – Firefox, Safari
Audio Editors: Audacity,
Video Editors: Windows MovieMaker,
Online Photo Editors:  21 Editors via 10,000 Words,
Music/Video Players [...]

Fonts Personified!

This video is funny if you are into type, and who isn’t?  LOL in Impact Bold.