Resources

(This page will be constantly updated.)

This page contains a collection of links that will help you with your assignments, help remind you how to do things after you have finished the course, or help you sharpen your skills beyond what you learned to do in this class. Please suggest more links if I have omitted things that should be included!

GENERAL SKILL-BUILIDING SITES:

  • Knight Digital Learning Ctr at UC Berkeley – lots of great tutorials.
  • J-Learning – A “how to” site for community media from the J-Lab. Also great for students, and anybody for that matter.
  • News U. – “Training for journalists. Anytime. Anywhere.”
  • Resources for Web Workers – By University of Florida web guru Mindy McAdams
  • Sreetips – All kinds of tips from Columbia J-school web guru Sree Sreenivasan.
  • Easy publishing tools for online journalists – a good, comprehensive guide by OJR. (Note: it’s a wiki and you can help add to it!)

    • VIDEO:

  • Videomaker by YouTube – how to make better videos.
  • Current TV training section.
  • Make Internet TV (more resources and how-to).
  • Steve Garfield’s Guide to Videoblogging

    • BLOGGING AND WORDPRESS TUTORIALS:

  • WordPress Frequently Asked Questions.
  • Lorelle on WordPress – Blogger Lorelle vanFossen shares her latest tricks and tips.

    • From the good folks at Edublogs, we have several very useful links:

  • A 3 Min Intro to WordPress
  • Posting (in detail)
  • Editing Your Sidebar
  • Edublogs forum – If you are using Uniblog.org, you can also discuss problems and questions here.

    • HOW TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS:

  • About.com how-to for Windows users.

    • LEARNING HTML:

  • HTML – great breakdown by Mindy McAdams of the basic HTML tags you need to know.
  • W3C Schools HTML Tutorial – free and comprehensive.
  • HTML Code Tutorial – excellent set of free tutorials.

    • File Transfer Protocol (FTP):

  • how to upload your files to the server using Internet Explorer 6 – tutorial with screenshots
  • how to use FireFTP, a Firefox add-0n, to upload your files – tutorial with screenshots