Category / Teaching Aids

Salon.com offers some advice to journalism professors who may be feeling guilty about teaching students skills to work in a dying industry. The advice from Cary Tennis: “I do not think it…

Columbia University’s School of Journalism appears to be facing the same internal conflict about how, or even whether, to change its curricula to teach new media skills as so many other j-schools,…

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is twittering. Or,  if they’re not, they feel they should be. Journalists who first dismissed it as a useless time waster are now seeing it as a good way…

A list of nine sites where you will find some examples of the best photojournalism online today. The list can be found in this blog post, called Amazing Photojournalism: Where to find…

This site is a series of comprehensive, step by step tutorials on the fundamentals of film and video production. It includes video clips, flash animations, and explanations. The site claims it is used by hundreds…

Today’s journalism students need to find new models to restore journalism to its former health. That’s what the new academic dean of Columbia University’s School of Journalism told the incoming class of j-students this…

Need some ideas about inspiring students in the face of the troubles facing newsrooms these days? Temple University professor G.W. Miller III makes a compelling case for why it’s never been a…

This simple tutorial for creating powerful, effective digital stories is a great resource for anyone involved with multimedia journalism.

Mitchell Stephens says too many journalism programs are dedicated to teaching the tried and true and too many journalism professors are determined to defend standard practices rather than try new approaches to encourage…

This PBS site provides a 13-minute video on a Dartmouth professor, Hany Farid, who is developing news ways to help people detect photos that have been manipulated. After watching the video, the site then invites…