Monday morning presentation

Here’s the Monday morning Powerpoint presentation that I gave at the AUB workshop. The movies and many of the images are now link directly to websites. I’ll upload the text I spoke from as soon as I have a chance to look at it again.

Online Journalism Atlas

Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog has started an atlas of online journalism. Who volunteers to submit information for Lebanon?

Disclosure

Since we talked about whether to disclose or not disclose our funding sources in class, I thought I would show an example where well-known blogger Rebecca Blood has disclosed her relationship with Amazon, where you can find her book(s). Click on the image to get a better view.

Audacity: And now we’re back…

Apologies, again, for the technical difficulties. I raced home and installed version 1.2.6 on my husband’s computer and edited Adham Najdi’s interview down to about 1:44 and saved it at three different bit speeds so that we can evaluate the trade-off between quality and download speed. Now I am ready to reintroduce you to the [...]

We’re learning about image sizes for the web

100 pixels wide

200 pixels wide

300 pixels wide

100 pixels

Digital Audio & Video Editing

There are two main distinctions between editing digital audio and video and analog audio and video (you know, magnetic reel-to-reel tape and celluloid film).
The digital editing process is:
1. Nondestructive
2. Nonlinear
Editing both audio and video comprises a sequence of decisions that will produce an infinite number of unique variations that vary according to the author’s voice.
There [...]

Writing for the web

Write concisely.
Compose headlines that will mean something to everyone.
Use active voice.
Break up gray matter.
Link, link, and link again. But make sure your readers know where they’re going.
Attribute. A lot of these tips were paraphrased from an article by Robert Niles, the editor of the Annenberg School of Communication’s Online Journalism Review.
Spell check, apply punctuation and [...]

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