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
09.03.08 | No Comments
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 [...]

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 [...]

Forget The Basics

When you think of writing its all pretty much the same. You learned to write an essay in what 5th grade maybe even earlier? As you got older you learned different styles and different formats and even all the fancy stuff to make your self sound oh so intelligent, and grasped your own sense of [...]

Who are you?

STORRS, Conn., United States — I think web writers should put state AND country in their datelines, so I am going to start. (Too bad I don’t have an AP handy, because I think U.S. is wrong)

I’m constantly slowed down when looking for information by sites that just list a town. As if [...]

The Modern Role of the Journalist

According to Howard Owens, there are six roles the modern journalist should serve:
The Ethical Role: Provide ethical guidence to today’s participatory audience. Provide teaching tools on information ethics, what ethics means and why it’s important, and how to spot compromised ethics.
The Guide/Filter Role: As professionally-trained information hunter/gatherers, journalists should point audiences to the best [...]