Should multimedia journalism students be required to learn Flash animation?
Associated Press has an interactive piece today on the 2012 presidential race. This makes me wonder: shall we require J-students to take courses in Flash animation? This AP piece is more of an editing...
View ArticleMultimedia reporters can now create a Flash project without knowledge of...
Two website creation tools provide a solution to create flash-like, interactive webpages to present multimedia journalism stories. I compared these tools for their pros and cons in presenting a...
View ArticleUse Storify as a teaching tool in video and multimedia production classes
Sorify, a popular content curation tool that pools together relevant web and social media contents on a topic, also lends itself to presenting multimedia materials for a lecture in journalism...
View ArticleComparing two free tools for online multimedia story presentation – without...
Tent City in Lakewood, New Jersey has been a temporary, makeshift settlement for many homeless people. It also poses a touchy issue for city officials. The reason I chose to work o this story is it's...
View ArticleA multimedia reporting package template developed by Temple University’s...
Temple University’s student-run news site, Philadelphia Neighborhoods, develops a template for presenting multimedia contents of a “feature story”: video, text, photos, and audio slideshow. Below is a...
View ArticleStorify as teaching tool: tips on sequence video shooting techniques
Storify, the popular content curation tool, is also a useful tool for teaching multimedia production. See below for a comparison of two approaches to the discussion of “sequence video shooting...
View Article“Digital storytelling” and “digital reporting” are not interchangeable
News reporting: indirectly told by reporters; due to space limits, only a small amount of subject materials are selected based on “news values.” Digital storytelling: directly told by subjects...
View ArticleVideo storytelling technique for rookie J-students and freelancers: How to...
A template for structuring a television news package that I have developed for my broadcast journalism class may also be of use to people who want to create and share a video story. The template...
View ArticleWe need a digital reporting tool and Storyplanet shows promise
A digital reporting or storytelling tool can provide a one-stop solution for presenting multimedia contents. Storyplanet, a new web-based tool, shows promise of becoming such a digital reporting...
View ArticleStoryplanet review: A promising multimedia storytelling tool for digital...
Storyplanet, a digital reporting platform still in its beta, provides a quick and easy way for a digital reporter to put together a package that contains text, photo, video and audio, which can then be...
View ArticleFree online course, Audio Photo Slideshow Storytelling, to start Feb. 10
A free 5-week online course in audio photo slideshow storytelling that teaches participants how to make a slideshow, which is two skills in one: create an audio slideshow, and tell a story using visual...
View ArticleHow to embed video and photo in a Google interactive map
You can add photo and video to a Google Maps Engine custom map using two free tools: Flickr and Youtube. This is a useful feature for multimedia reporting, marketing or just personal use. This post is...
View ArticleLocation- and time-based storytelling: Interactive maps with embedded photo,...
I tested three free map tools to create custom maps that show multiple dimensions of a story: where (location), when (time), what (photos, videos, articles). The three tools are Meograph, StoryMap JS...
View ArticleHow to embed Getty Images free photos, and, what’s the catch?
The world’s largest photo service, Getty Images, just made many of its stock photos free to use. Here’s a guide on how to find images and embed them in a blog post or web page. The catch is that the …...
View ArticleHow to create a free heat map with Google Fusion Tables: A tutorial for...
Tutorial goals: understand the ideas behind Google Fusion Tables heat maps; create an interactive map showing state-by-state U.S. population, as shown below: This post is adapted from course materials...
View ArticleTelling a story with Google Earth: Student work in my online mapping course
A participant in my online course Google Mapping for Communicators created a virtual tour using Google Earth, and it provides for a good example of how Google Earth can be used as a storytelling tool....
View ArticleJournalists should learn to illustrate location elements in a news story
Google Maps provides an easy way to illustrate “where it is” and “what it looks like” – two questions a reader may raise but are usually left unanswered. Location is an important element in local news...
View ArticleGoogle Camera: A new mobile reporting tool to create your own Street View
Google recently released a camera app, Google Camera, to mobile devices running Android 4.4 KitKat. Photo Sphere, one unique feature of Google Camera, makes it easy to create a custom Street View of a...
View ArticleReverse image search: A Google tool every web editor and researcher should use
By cropping a photo to its most salient part, we can use Google’s “search by image” feature to identify object in a photo that does not have accompanying texts, caption or metadata. At times, a web...
View ArticleA “multimedia map”: How to use Google Maps with embedded photos and videos
A Google map with embedded photos and videos becomes a “multimedia map” that provides for an interactive presentation tool for use in tourism, event planning, news reporting and other location-based...
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