From the Bhimbetka cave paintings to graphic novels, we have expressed ourselves visually through narrative. Storyboarding your ideas – be it for products, web page design, or actual stories – is an essential and natural tool of communication.
‘m a whiz at Photoshop and am getting to the expert level on Illustrator. But there is one skill that still eludes me: sketching. In digital image editing, you’ve got all the tools you need to basically cheat a drawing – filters, layers, rulers, grids, opacity. You need not ever learn how to wield an HB pencil to create, like me.
After listening to a TED Talk by Jane McGonigal I finally found the inspiration to write down what I think a healthy community website should look like.
The communities I participate in are HItRecord and BlogHer. These communities work.
[You could count Facebook and Twitter on there, but I would categorize those as more social networking, and [...]
I get easily overwhelmed when I start a project. There’s so much information to digest, so many ideas to process, pages to look at, that I often jump out of my chair and slap on my iPod to release some stress through raucous dancing in the living room. Yep, I’m that upstairs neighbor stomping all [...]
This is in essence my journalistic philosophy, what I learned from my masters at the UNR Reynolds School of Journalism, and a large part of my thesis. Please enjoy and tell me what you think!
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I was a witness to the PJs at the Reynolds School of Journalism. I was so glad of the opportunity to have someone as successful and prolific as Erin speak to J-school students and especially professors about new media, getting personal, and still being a good storyteller.
Erin Kotecki Vest + Jeff [...]
Offer that program, or one like it, to concerned parents who feel overwhelmed by the media deluge themselves, to help turn them into better media consumers and to give them ways to help their children.
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Dan Gillmor over at Mediactive wrote this post about how schools should change their journalism curriculum. Below is my response. [...]
Because we all know a few asshole editors.
Seriously, I find that many newsrooms foster an unhealthy competitive environment where journalists would rather slit each others' throats than collaborate on a story. A former Mizzou student in journalism told me tales of sabotage. This in the esteemed Reynolds School of Journalism.
It's really time to change [...]
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