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
Social Media
- Promoting Your Blog
- Blogging Assignment
- Blogging Grading Rubic
- Live Blogging with Cover It Live
- Social Media Assignment
- Setting up ASU WordPress
- Using Twitter to find jobs
- Create a Twitter Background
CSS and Web Editing
FTP
- Fetch and Fugu to ASU hosting space
- Free FireZilla to access 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
- Image Correction in Photoshop
- Creating a Logo/Header
Slideshow
Video
- Video sidebar for Online Media
- Video Grading Form
- Video Assignment Critique Form
- Exporting and Encoding Video
- Uploading Video to YouTube
Writing
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.
Luckie, Mark S. (2010). The Digital Journalist’s Handbook.
Wenger, D.H. & Potter, D. (2008). Advancing the story. Broadcast journalism in the multimedia world. CQ Press: Washington, DC.
Targeted Texts
Berger, A.B. (2008). Seeing is believing. An introduction to visual communication. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Carey, P. (2006). New perspectives on creating web pages with HTML, XHTML, and XML. Boston, MA: Thomas Learning, Inc.
Eiseman, L. (2006). Color: Messages and meanings. Cincinnati, OH: Hand Brooks Press.
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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Site Purpose
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- Spring 2010 student journalism and public relations portfolios
- How to create a Twitter Background
- Social Media Assignment: Free Metric and Measurement Tools
- Use twitter to find jobs – journalism, social media, pr, etc.
- Fall 2009 Online Media students complete their portfolios
- SYLLABI: Teaching Online Journalism and Communication
- Bringing structure to the grading of blog posts
- Teaching the value of Twitter
- Investment in video at newspapers not significant
- Developing a personal brand statement
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