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Re: High School Media Online | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Harry — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:42:38 -0000

What constitutes a scholastic media site, and how to establish one in Delaware?! I am interested!

Re: Curriculum Revision | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Larry Langley — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:56:14 -0000

I love your article. At present there are two classes that can be tagged as journalism: Introduction to Journalism and Yearbook. Intro to journalism is a full-year course as is yearbook. In the two classes that meet every day I have 45-minutes per class (minus attendance and instructional/direction time) to impart what I know that the students will need to know on how to create a yearbook and a school newspaper. This is the first year that my school has had a yearbook class and a journalism class with both classes having a staff to create both publications. Next year I want to step up the pace somewhat to include a newspaper web site with videos, pod casts, and so forth. The yearbook class is a one year course. The students who are trained on the software this year are ineligible to take the class next year. I therefore lose a completely trained staff and have to start over training a new staff. Any suggestions on how to convey to admin that it would be better if this year's non-senior yearbook staff could take the class again for credit too?

Re: High School Yearbooks can use Google Docs to make the index cleanup more manageable | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Larry Langley — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:40:04 -0000

As a high school yearbook adviser I have have to clean up the book before sending the pages off electronically. We have a fall book--because we've always done it that way--which means I work on the book during the summer months to get it ready for printing. Indexes are often a bugaboo; your suggestion to use Google Docs for this grueling task is a refreshing bit of info.

Re: Free storyboard solutions available for download | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

watch movies online — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:57:29 -0000

will have to check them out

Re: A Checklist of Digital Media Things To Consider Before Closing Out the Year | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Karen Barrett — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:11:27 -0000

My web and multimedia editor need to check this post out! http://tinyurl.com/2992k8u

Re: [Presentation] Web Only: Taking Newspapers Online - by Steve Matson | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Marty Pflieger — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:39:13 -0000

Never mind! I got it!

Re: [Presentation] Web Only: Taking Newspapers Online - by Steve Matson | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Marty Pflieger — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:30:42 -0000

I am unable to access this presentation. I've tried the Trackback URL and several other ways and I'm still not seeing it. Can anyone help?

Re: The three 'P's of online legal issues | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Bradley — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:34:46 -0000

Online Tips for Education
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Re: Grab is a great tool for Mac screen capturing | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

roschkekj — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:18:22 -0000

Windows Vista and Windows 7 also offer an easier way to grab screens, called the Snipping Tool. You can find it in the Applications folder. Doesn't do timed screens, but it is far superior to the old "Print Screen" method.

Re: [Presentation] Web Only: Taking Newspapers Online - by Steve Matson | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Jonathan Rogers — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:27:54 -0000

Great presentation! I went through the same process this spring and think it is an exciting process if you can get students bought into the web.

Thanks.

Re: Google Docs streamlines brainstorming session, inspires more use of Google Docs for editing, record keeping | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Jeremy Whiting — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:46:36 -0000

Great to see more staffs using Google Docs for their organization. We use the system in Haslett, MI for students to submit their stories for the editing process.

Re: Live Coverage of President Obama's Iowa City Speech: The First Day of Online News | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

danielsadicario — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:18:18 -0000

Jon, this is great. You've really cleared a lot of trail for fellow journalism teachers like myself.

Re: High School Media Online | JEA Digital Media

kristashields — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:33:40 -0000

Please add Streamline for Noblesville High School to Indiana. The URL is www.mill-stream.org.

Re: ‘Comments are Closed.’ Whether to allow online commentary not always easy choice. | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

jimstreisel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:24:46 -0000

Hi, Julie. Good points/questions. Your first point regarding legal action and/or teachers/coaches performing their jobs shows just how individual this idea can be. Again, staffs would need to discuss what's acceptable and what's not on a case-by-case basis.

As for your second point, you bring up an important clarification - namely, that staffs can individually determine the level of security/scrutiny they want to allow on their site. Some, as you've mentioned, require full names (although what prevents them from using another name? Who checks this?). Some require comments to go through a "holding pen" verification process before they post.

(On a side note, I find this both ironic and enlightening that we're having this discussion via the "comments" section on this story. Pretty cool demonstration of the validity of the process.)

Re: ‘Comments are Closed.’ Whether to allow online commentary not always easy choice. | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Julie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:23:12 -0000

I think, though, that if legal action is currently pending or if the discussion to be had on the topic may harm the teacher/coach's ability to perform his job, then it would be a good idea to close comment.

We're new to the online world, and we do allow commenting. We've been requiring full names, though, to keep everyone honest. I see you say that your comments can be relatively anonymous. What do you think about comment posting requirements as they pertain to names/usernames?

Re: VoiceThread: Narrated Slide Shows | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

glindsay711 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:28:12 -0000

Excellent suggestion, Paul. I'll show this to the yearbook staff.

Re: 5 Things I Learned Using Google Docs for Staff Applications This Year | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

michelleharmon48 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:12:34 -0000

Aaron, This was really helpful. Thank you for hacking a path for the rest of us.

Re: DC Metro news stations turn to social media to cover #snowpocalypse 2010 | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

verorose — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:29:17 -0000

That is so cool how many ppl sent in pictures. It's like the news station has 600 reporters. Im in journalism class right now and we were talking about this.

Re: [Handout] Beat system for FHNtoday.com Staff at Francis Howell North High School | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Name — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:15:24 -0000

Love this system, it will help get our video broadcast crew working with the newspaper crew.

Re: Review of Emerging Media Workshop, Ball State, 6/19-21/09 | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

jeadigitalmedia — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:05:46 -0000

Visit http://bsujournalismworkshops.... for more information or to apply.

Re: Review of Emerging Media Workshop, Ball State, 6/19-21/09 | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

mattlitten — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:55:45 -0000

Can you tell me how to find this course. I would also love to take it. IU offers web design courses in Dreamweaver but they are complicated.

Re: Create a staff application online for free using Google Docs | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

jeffmoffitt — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:30:53 -0000

I just created an application (very quickly) and used the newspaper editor as a guinea pig. She was amazed at how simple it was. She also said it makes you feel like it is really important.

I love how the results are displayed. No more shuffling 300 sheets of paper. I can't wait to put this into place school-wide.

Thank you!
Jeff

Re: What FTP is and Some FTP Client Options | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

Patrick — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:24:45 -0000

Nice explanation of FTP.

Sometimes, a user needs to customize what files are uploaded and that customized functionality is not available in pre-packaged ftp client. In that case, the operating system's native ftp commands, and a scripting language can be very helpful. For example, if you want to upload all .html files MODIFIED since Jan 1, 2010, here is a script you can use.

var str site, login, pswd
set $site = "ftp.mysite.com"
set $login = "me"
set $pswd = "my_password"
echo $login "\n" $password > "commandfile.txt"

var str list, file
lf -n "*.html" "/myhtmlfiles" ($fmtime >= "20100101") > $list
while ($list <> "")
do
lex "1" $list > $file
echo "put " $file >> "commandfile.txt"
done

echo "bye" >> "commandfile.txt"
system ftp "-s:commandfile.txt " $site

The above script will batch upload all .html files modified since 20100101 to site "ftp.mysite.com". This script is in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ), but any other scripting language can be used too.

Re: Create a staff application online for free using Google Docs | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

jillchittum — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:51:00 -0000

It was quick and easy - I created my form in Google Docs last week. I plan to put the link on my teacher web site this week. Great job, Aaron!

:-)

Re: CNN uses multiple social media sources story of Brittany Murphy death | Journalism Education Association Digital Media

mdschott — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:03:21 -0000

Part of me sees the usefulness in crowd sourcing something like this, though I don't think Brittany Murphy was an actress of much consequence, is an interesting way to bring people into the story. I think getting people to be a part of the story is interesting. I just don't want it to take the place of the news ... the actual reporting. Because that's where problems can start. It's a really interesting approach, as long as it doesn't replace the one where you know, facts are verified and what not.