Last week I gave a short lecture to broadcast (and a smattering of magazine) students about using the web to help find a job. I tried to sum the whole thing up in a pithy slide: It was really about fitting digital in to an already well established pattern for job hunting – traditional ad’s [...]

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Most of my teaching today has been about the basics of online presentation – online writing etc. As an exercise I pulled some council news from the web to give us something to work with.  It was a simple story, a local council by-election. But it had some nice angles to explore – turnout etc [...]

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Last week I posted about a little wordpress plugin I wrote called FancyCatlist. It made a nice little category menu similar to the kind of thing you would see on Everyblock. I wrote it as part of the process of putting together one of the sites I want my students to use next year as [...]

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I’ve been spending a lot of time doing prep for teaching and training that I’m doing at the moment. So expect the slow appearance of a backlog of posts on video and other related issues. But I thought I would share something that has been in my radar for a few days. I’ve been doing [...]

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UPDATE: Paul has a great blog post summing up the issues. Paul Bradshaw has been doing a little ‘pre-blogging’ over at Seesmic with a question about what we should be teaching journalism students. Some of the responses go as far as to suggest that three year degrees (in the UK students normally do a degree [...]

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I’m often reminded as my status as a lecturer. It’s usually in that ‘it may work for you in your ivory tower, but this is the real world sonny’ way, but I don’t mind. One of the reasons I like being in education is it allows me to have a foot in both camps and, [...]

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Image by thenez via Flickr My department has an outpost in China and Matt (our man in china) sent word of a project based on Google groups that his students have been involved with called Life and Death, Love and Pain: Snapshots of Sichuan Earthquake On the site, one of the people working on it [...]

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Here is a little quote to start the post. “If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.” Responding to the general discussion about who is working the digital news vein, Pat Thornton has posted another take on the problems with management pointing out that Management should [...]

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