This article by reporter Audrey Gomez appeared in the first Fall Term edition of The Commuter: Not that we shouldn’t all know this by the time we enter the college classroom, but just in case … Be prepared: Do required reading before class. You’ll be able to contribute to the discussion that way...
Fellow TED fans … Another one of our favorites, “What Would Google Do?” author Jeff Jarvis, just made his debut talk to TED. (He said the video will be posted in a week or so.) Based on Jarvis’ notes posted on BuzzMachine, it’s an interesting speech on education, media, innovation, Google, collaboration … and...
It’s the next best thing to a great journalism textbook. Wait, I think it may be better in so many ways… Mindy McAdams has compiled her 15 terrific posts that make up the “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency” into an elegant one-stop PDF. She goes from reading and creating blogs to editing audio and...
Anybody who has taken Media & Society knows what a huge fan I’ve become of Dave Eggers – educator, entrepreneur, writer, buccaneer… Besides his writing, I most admire his enthusiasm for the written word and his gung-ho quest to engage young people with reading, writing and publishing. Along those lines, here’s an e-mail Eggers...
Looking for something to do over spring break? How about learning a new multimedia skill? A good place to start would be a new post on 10,000 Words — “Essential Multimedia Tutorials and Resources for Do-it-yourself Training.” The list includes some of my favorites, including Mindy McAdams’ “Teaching Online Journalism,” “Common Craft” and the...
