Slideshare could be the answer!

Create a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation. Upload it to www.slideshare.net. Use WordPress shortcode to embed the presentation into a blog post or page. Check it out!

Your Future Audience Wants…

What will the next generation of media consumers want? A new report from the Digital Youth Project offers some keen insight. Based on an extensive three-year study, the report details how kids in the United States use digital media in their everyday lives.
Points for journalists to consider:
Community. Teens live their online lives connected within communities. [...]

Sharing Your Creative Works

Still not sure what Creative Commons licenses are about? Then take a look at this illustrated primer. It provides a good, easy-to-understand explanation, and the presentation has got clickability!

Webcentric Storytelling

Check out this resource from USAToday.com.

They are listening to us!

Hey everyone, look what I found. I though it was pretty cool to know that the people we mention in our blog sometimes have their eyes wide open to our content. Check it out below:
UConn Journalism Blog – Lessons From Blogging in the Classroom
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When I was a student at Michigan State University, [...]

How To Do A Rough Storyboard

Here is a storyboarding tutorial by Jane Ellen Stevens at the Knight Digital Media Center:
A storyboard is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents.
A storyboard helps you:

Define the parameters of a story within available resources and time
Organize and focus a story
Figure out what medium [...]

Google provides yet another trend

I found this little gem while browsing through my bookmarked websites today. Google Trends. It lets you see and compare what people have been searching for on Google since 2004.
Being election season, I did a search of Obama and McCain, and these are the results:
It’s easy to explain why traffic is [...]

Evaluating Online Sources

Librarians at colleges and universities across the country have developed great tutorials to help students evaluate online sources of information. These same critical thinking techniques should be used by journalism professionals to determine whether Internet resources are credible and relevant.
The tutorial at the UC Berkeley library advises students to:

Train your eye and your fingers [...]

NPR’s Multimedia Force

NPR has drank the online kool-aid and is putting its journalists through intense, seven-week training courses in multimedia journalism that encourages them to expand their repertoire of reporting and storytelling skills.
“We are learning how to think differently about our contributions to the programs that we serve. Our role is to think more Web first and [...]

Getting a leg up

This is from a few weeks ago, but it made my day when I first saw it in my inbox. Susie Bubble, one of my favorite style bloggers (check her out, she always finds the latest, greatest new designers before anyone else) and a professed tights maniac, has a little feature and interview with Urban [...]