This blog posting includes a link to a terrific step-by-step guide to Audacity — a free program that allows people to edit audio files for presentation online or on the air. The guide is courtesy of Mindy McAdams at the University of Florida.
If you want feedback from students about your teaching or find out whether they understood aspects of a lesson or lessons and you don’t want to wait for the formal course evaluations at the end of the term, you might want to consider using The Free Assessment Summary Tool or FAST. FAST is an anonymous…
This is a site full of provocative ideas about newspaper layout and design from a Virgina-based design company. It includes lots of visual examples and thought provoking content.
An interactive website rich with tips, advice and resources for educators and others interested in learning how to use Flash to create intereactive, multimedia content for news websites.
This page provides links to the increasing number of podcasts available of CBC Radio’s most popular news and information programs.
Ira Glass, longtime radio producer for National Public Radio talks on camera about the two most important elements in any good piece of journalism.
Ira Glass has built a reputation for being one of America’s great radio storytellers and is now the producer of National Public Radio’s This American Life. In this three part series, Glass describes how he learned his craft and shares his ideas about what makes a great story and what doesn’t. The series is full…
An online quiz (with answers) for journalists and journalism students to test their ability to do the kinds of basic calculations they are often required to do for their news stories. It was prepared by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
A useful set of tips for writing better headlines from Sharon Burnside, the Assistant Managing Editor for the Toronto Star.
A list of useful tips about preparing for and conducting effective interviews for reporters prepared by Paul McLaughlin, one of Canada’s well-known instructors and authors on interviewing for journalists.