Materials used and mentioned in the July '09 Poynter educators seminar

(Please note that many of these are large files that will require broadband and a bit of time.)

Downloads

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• Presentation 1: My Favorite Things
• Dreamweaver training files
• Presentation 2: Curriculum (R)evolution
• Sample training assignment for Audacity and Soundslides (to further practice what you learned in lab)

My Delicious

• darn near everything I mention that lives online is bookmarked to the Poynter tag in my delish

5 Things you can do to fill your teaching brain:

• subscribe to the daily newsletter from Mashable, the Social Media Guide
• subscribe to Al's Morning Meeting
• subscribe to the On The Media weekly podcast
• set up a Twitter account and follow media accounts (e.g., @poynter, @wsj, @nytimes), social media accounts (e.g., @mashable, @guykawasaki) and your students
• use Facebook to friend Katy and join her "Katy's Poynter Peeps" group

My course pages

• J202, Mass Media Practices
• the Individual Story assignment sheet we discussed is here in Week 2
• J676, Media Without Borders: Law, Ethics and Digital Communication

Tutorials

These are some good references for you to learn more about the software we've covered:

• searchable pdf for my intro course (do not use this for Dreamweaver yet because it still covers tables - look for an update in fall 2009)
• narrated video tutorials
• here's the specific tutorial on dealing with Soundslides on a server

Fun stuff

• Scavenger hunt: How many UW-Madison graduates are in the room? (Extra credit: when was the last time the Badgers won a Rose Bowl?)
• Katy tries to vote "WOW" but does this instead
• Alligators have never struck during Katy's trips to Florida ... until her buddy Jim Kates came down, professing to be "paranoid" about attacks. Then this happened. Will Jim ever return?
• When will Bay News 9 change its lead headline to try, in vain, to keep up with Theresa's Rockin' 10 Connects