Getting the most out of mobile technology
Resources on using smartphones and cellphones for journalistic work. Mobile Media Toolkit Financed by the Knight Foundation, this site offers a collection of tools and resources for using mobile...
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Knight Digital Media Center An excellent resource from the University of California, Berkeley. This links directly to the video tutorial, but the center has tutorials on many other topics....
View ArticleSlideshow tools
Animoto Upload photos and sound and create slideshows that resemble a movie trailer. Allows you to embed completed files on a website. The downside: The free version allows shows of no more than 30...
View ArticleNew AOL site provides free video content
The site, Editors Room, offers free news video that can be embedded on a site. If you sign up as a partner, you can also get a share of revenue from ads that accompany the videos. Read more at 10,000...
View ArticleHelpful online tools for journalists
Six essential digital publishing tools for journalists An overview of some basic free tools: RSS feeds, Twitter Feed, TwitPic, Qik, JayCut and Creative Commons. A video from the International...
View ArticleSoftware for digital storytelling
StoryMaking Software Includes lists of tools for audio editing, video editing, image editing, animation and other areas of digital storytelling.
View ArticleSoftware for screencasting
Screencasting essentially means recording actions from a computer screen. One of the best pieces of software I’ve found for that is Camtasia, which sells for about $300. There are both Windows and Mac...
View ArticleNarrable: A new service for creating audio slideshows
A new website called Narrable offers some interesting possibilities for storytelling. Narrable is an online service that allows you to load photographs into a horizontal slider and then add voice...
View Article11 easy-to-use tools for creating great web content
At a presentation I gave today for the staff of The University Daily Kansan, a student asked what I thought was the the most important tool was for creating stories for the web. My answer was simple: a...
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