Publishing your journal articles online - your rights
To get one manuscript published in a top journal requires years of hard work. It involves gathering research, collecting and analyzing data and facing the peer-review process. It is a process that I appreciate to become a better researcher.
To further research, I would like to share my work beyond publication in a journal. A friend noticed that Neil Thurman published preprint versions of his work. In an email, he told me that most journals allow researchers to publish preprint versions of their articles. He said preprints are the version of the manuscript that was initially submitted to the journal without the amendments required by the peer review process.
Taylor and Francis, a publisher of many journals including Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Communication Methods and Measures, and Mass Communication and Society, says that authors have the right to publish their preprint work on their home page or institutional Web site. Based on my reading of an author’s rights, it can also be published on another site if the information provided adjacent to the article links to the finished published journal article to the journal’s Web page.
Authors are also able to link to the finished journal article on their home page or institution’s Web page after an 18 month period following publication in Social Sciences & Humanities journals. However, the author must fully reference the publisher and link their article to the journal’s Web page. However, an individual must pay if they want access to the author’s article.
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Creating an online resume in just a few weeks
I teach Online Media to journalism and public relations students at the Cronkite School. This semester I spent 1/3 of my semester on social media, 1/3 on visual communication, and the last 1/3 web page creation and design. Over just a few weeks, my students created some lovely and creative portfolios that I would like to share with you. The sites were created using HTML/CSS, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver. During this exercise, students are given the freedom to express their creativity by designing their own sites and producing their own content for their online resumes.
Online Media 1:30-3:30
Maxine Park
Jonathan Cooper
Maria Polletta
Taryn Brady
Chris Piel
Channing Turner
Tessa Muggeridge
Megan Thomas
Carleen McGillick
Melanie Kiser
Nicole Stewart
Samantha Shomaker
Online Media 4:30-6:30
Michelle Price
Allison Filbert
Daria Del Colliano
Jake Repko
Theresa Dillon
Britney Ihrig
Nancy Flores
Emily Brakovich
Jesus Ledezma
Desiree Dietiker
Mark Crudup
Ashley Goelitz
Ashley Lange
Jessica Lutjemeyer
Cammie Sammartino
Nicholas Smith
Megan Kelly
Visual Toolkit of Freebies - Step by step instructions
I spent the day working on my visual toolkit. I am in awe of how much easier it is today to share and embed beautiful elements on your Web site. I believe that anyone can use and follow this handout. Have fun!
*Thanks to @chrishogg for the tip on Scribd
FCP video editing problems
My slideshare lecture on video editing provides tips on video editing and how to use Final Cut Pro. It is also provides information on troubleshooting problems with Final Cut. One of the most difficult parts of teaching software is troubleshooting technical glitches or figuring out how the new user or student ended up where they did. My presentation presents four common problems news users face when editing in Final Cut Pro.
- “I don’t see my video.”
- This likely means that the computer does not recognize that the video camera is connected to the computer.
- “I see red lines through mu clips.”
- This means that FCP cannot find your video because it is likely stored at another location, which means you did not save properly.
- “I can only see part of my video and the rest says needs rendering.”
- It means that your clips need rendering before you can view them.
- “My video is not playing.”
- A trick that may help you is to copy and paste your video project into a new timeline, which may solve the problem.
Check out my slideshare presentation to see how to solve these problems. Tomorrow, I will talk about exporting video from Final Cut Pro to a player. A media player allows the user to play your edited video.
How to shoot b-roll video
The key to good video is shooting sequences. A sequence is a wide, medium and close-up shot of the same object or person. When shooting video, you want to mimic how humans see the world. A person will cognitively process visuals in steps. For example, if a person walks into a room looking for a chair to sit on during a public speaking event. That person will walk into a room and see the whole room (wide-shot), then they will see a few people (medium-shot), and then they will spot an empty chair (close-up).
I also limit the shooting of zooms and pans by my students. A pan is recording video as the camera horizontally moves across the room. First, movement can look pixelated online, diminishing the quality. Second, the shot lasts a long time if shot properly. Third, our eyes do not zoom. We can not look at someone and zoom to them. Thus, it is better to shoot shots when shooting video for the web.
How to shoot a video interview
I teach video in four steps in my online media class, which equals to 8 hours of class time. I am a former broadcast instructor who has spent many years teaching video to people of all backgrounds. I find that this approach works best for me. I hope that it helps you teach or learn video basics.
2. How to shoot an interview - they must practice shooting following the interview. I provide an in-class assignment on my lecture slides.
3. How to shoot broll or cover video - they must shoot a sequence and a action shot following lecture.
4. How to edit and prepare video for the web - they edit the video they shot over the past few days.
I have shared my lecture on online video trends on my blog. Today, I will share my lecture on how to shoot an interview. The following days I will share with you my b-roll shooting and editing lectures.
Training leaders to adapt with change
In the most recent issue of Electronic News, a journal dedicated to broadcast media research, University of Florida researcher Johanna Cleary surveyed television news directors and producers about the state of training in newsrooms in 2003 and 2004. Many news organizations rarely provide training to further their employee’s knowledge, however providing training may encourage organizational commitment and job satisfaction.
The results show that producers are unhappy with the amount and the content of training provided to them, however 62% of them said that the lack of professional training did not influence employee’s loyalty to the organization. On the other hand, the majority of news directors (69%) surveyed believed that it did influence their job satisfaction.
It should be noted that many new graduates professionally entering the field with online skills may desire additional training to keep up with the evolving field of online communication. A lack of guidance from leadership or from outside professionals may cause anxiety because of the current state of the business. Newsroom leaders and information organizations should consider reaching out to academia for guidance because many academics spend their careers monitoring changes occurring in the field of journalism.
The act of blogging is necessary to understand
Blogging has many benefits for students, journalists, and educators. Blogging is an easy way for students and anyone else to positively build their online reputation. It also can help them understand how to share information online. Online communication is important to learn. I would like to share with you my presentation on blogging.
How to participate in a hashtagged event
For those of you learning the ways of the twittersphere, here is another tip. In a previous post, I broke down the basic terms used by tweeters. Today, I am going to show how to join a conversation marked by a #hashtag. A hashtag is a term that is tagged to all conversations related to one topic. The tag enables the retrieval of those posts. An easy way to join a conversation is by going to TweetChat. You can participate in the conversation after you type in the hashtag.
I wanted to share this information with you because tonight educators, professionals, students and other online communicators can participate in a chat about the state of journalism education on the page or via Twitter. The hashtag is #collegejourn. The conversation focuses on how to best prepare students and addresses the quality of faculty and other educators. The chat begins at 8 p.m. EST.
New: collegejourn will be not a hashtag event, it is a live chat. Just go directly to the site.
Online video storytelling and trends
I will share with you my lecture on online video trends. The focus of this lecture concentrates on educating my students on how online video is different than broadcast video including current trends.
Broadcast news organizations perform an important function by providing the top news stories of the day. People expect this information when they tune into the news. However, many of those stories may not be visual. In the past, I used to tell my students to use a detached, wide-shots when narrating important information because audience members could not cognitively handle important factual information under interesting video. Imagine talking about the number of renters abandoning pets in this economic crisis while watching a kitten playing with a string. People will most likely only see the kitten, and not hear the narration.
In the online environment, online communicators can communicate critical facts in other ways such as text or graphics.
The beauty of the online environment is that only video pieces that are visually worthy should be placed online. This is why you should see more raw video online. However, a common mistake I see is that people will write the text first without considering the visuals or audio. Writers should weave narration in between audio and video. To accomplish this, video writers should listen to their audio and watch their video before writing.
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- Publishing your journal articles online - your rights
- Creating an online resume in just a few weeks
- Visual Toolkit of Freebies - Step by step instructions
- FCP video editing problems
- How to shoot b-roll video
- How to shoot a video interview
- Training leaders to adapt with change
- The act of blogging is necessary to understand
- How to participate in a hashtagged event
- Online video storytelling and trends