Student Journalist: Edit Thy Self

With the demise of copy editing at so many small and medium sized newspapers, magazines and even TV news stations; journalists need to be able to edit their own copy.  But before we delve into a grammar Nazi’s no man’s land of stylistic errors and misplaced modifiers, lets establish that most journalists are not English [...]

Cool Stuff #21: The Blackjack Post

My box of cool stuff runneth over.  I may hit 21 items today (maybe).
1) Ever wonder why no one wants to buy a yearbook anymore, or needs a newspaper or TV for the news?  Because we are the media now!  Everyone has a camera and a video camera and it seems no matter where news [...]

Low Budget Image Editing Alternatives – aka No Budget Photoshop

A couple of weeks back I discussed my research into alternatives for Photoshop CS4 for my yearbook program.  So far, no alternative really exists if you need to create quality CMYK TIF images from JPGs.  But if you are running an online newspaper program or a web design class, then there are a lot of [...]

I’m A Question Mark

You Are a Question Mark

You seek knowledge and insight in every form possible. You love learning.
And while you know a lot, you don’t act like a know it all. You’re open to learning you’re wrong.
You ask a lot of questions, collect a lot of data, and always dig deep to find out more.
You’re naturally curious [...]

Cool Links #20: The Andrew Jackson Edition

Andy Jackson is on the $20 bill, so he will be the host of this edition of Cool Links.  Let’s let this list roll:
1) Jason Bakker has 10 College Marketing Suggestions for 2009, but you can easily adjust them to high school or even middle school to help market your yearbook next year.  My favorite [...]

Gender, Media and Recruiting

I stumbled upon my own post again today about boys, girls and the media.  The year is only half over, but I’ve seen some profound changes in my classroom.
One of the most profound is that after last year, I worked very hard to find and recruit several good, male students into my yearbook and newspaper [...]

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Cool Links #19: This is Not Link Bait!

Coming up with punchy headlines for the Cool Links posts is getting harder.  So, without further ado, here’s the cool stuff:
1) Top Ten Myths About Writing, from the home office in Somewhere, Indiana – just a little Letterman humor.  My favorite is number 1 – Kids Hate To Write.  Ever watch them text?
2) Free Audio [...]

.MOD = Means Opening is Death

I knew months ago that the new video cameras that save via SD cards were not Mac friendly, but I also see flash memory based cameras as the future.  So we ordered one.  Foolish, I know, but I also knew that eventually Apple would see the light and move away from DV tape based cameras.
But [...]

It’s Not The Product, It’s The Process

With the slow death spiral that Newspapers seem to be in across the country, TV Stations are hunkering down in the economic storm, and Yearbooks are suffering losses in sales – I’m sure many journalism teachers are wondering how much longer we will be teaching journalism.
But the truth is that we shouldn’t think of ourselves [...]