Teaching

Please keep checking this page for more handouts and information on teaching. Also you can view my online syllabus for Online Media as well.

SYLLABI

Online Media | JMC 305 | Spring 2010
Online Media | JMC 425 | Fall 2009
Online Media | JMC 425 | Spring 2009
Online Media | JMC 425 | Spring 2008
Online Journalism | Online Media: JMC425 | Fall 2007
Broadcast News and Production | Broadcast News II: JRN 403 January 2005 – May 2005
Online Journalism | Digital Reporting for the Web: JRN 490, August – May 2006

TEACHING MATERIALS
Audio

• Audio Player Embeds
• GarageBand

Social Media

• Promoting Your Blog
• Blogging Grading Rubic
• Live Blogging with Cover It Live
• Social Media Assignment
• Setting up ASU WordPress
• Using Twitter to find jobs

CSS

• CSS in Dreamweaver (CS3) (SPR 09)

FTP

• Fetch and Fugu to ASU hosting space

Interactivity

• Visual Embeds (Polls, Maps, Tag Clouds, Audio Players, Forms, Video, Slideshow, Timelines, Documents, Sharing icons)

Photoshop

• Creating a Panorama
• Preparing Photos for the Web
• Creating a Logo/Header

Slideshow

• Creating slideshows in Final Cut Pro
• Slideshow Tips
• Soundslides Tutorial

Video

• Video sidebar for Online Media
• Video Grading Form
• Video Assignment Critique Form
• Exporting and Encoding Video
• Uploading Video to YouTube

Writing

• Online Article
• Article Grading Rubric

Other

• Formatting External Drive
• Forwarding your URL with GoDaddy
• Site Credibility Assignment
• Freelance Job Opportunities

BOOKS
General Texts
Briggs, M. (2009). Journalism next: A practical guide to digital reporting and publishing. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Foust, J.C. (2008). Online journalism: Principles and practices of news for the web. Scottsdale, AZ: Holocomb Hathaway, Inc.

Wenger, D.H. & Potter, D. (2008). Advancing the story. Broadcast journalism in the multimedia world. CQ Press: Washington, DC.

Wilkinson, J.S., Grant, A.E., & Fisher, D.J. (2009). Principles of convergent journalism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Targeted Texts
Carey, P. (2006). New perspectives on creating web pages with HTML, XHTML, and XML. Boston, MA: Thomas Learning, Inc.

Friend, C. & Singer, J.B. (2007). Online journalism ethics. Traditions and transitions. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

McFarland, D.S. (2007). Dreamweaver CS3. The missing manual. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, Inc.

Shuman, J. (2008). Adobe Flash CS3 revealed. Boston, MA: Thomas Leaning, Inc.

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