To get students set up on a blog, these are the sites I would suggest:
http://www.wordpress.com
http://typepad.com
http://eblogger.com
http://blogger.com
http://www.squarespace.com
http://www.thoughts.com
http://livejournal.com
http://blogcrowds.com
http://www.vox.com/
These are just a few. There are many, many more.
Podcast Instructions:
A podcast is an audio file sent to the web. You probably already know this. Here are some sites where students can get podcasts going:
http://www.wordpress.com - students may need to pay extra to upload really large files, such as documentaries
****The same goes for all of the ones above
There are other sites that will allow you to upload large files for free:
www.podbean.com
www.podomatic.com
This one may be for a fee:
www.podcast.com
www.podango.com
There are podcasts for just about every major mainstream radio station from the BBC, NPR, CBC, RCI, FAN590, CHFI, etc…
Video Blogs or Video Podcasts:
Video blogs are when students would do a commentary piece, a talk show that is more casual – anything appropriate for student work and/or the nature of the web. Every site I have listed at the top will give a student the ability to upload video onto their blog. As I have mentioned before, there may be an added fee to support the high megabyte size of these files.
Video Podcasts – these are more professional pieces of work put to the web. Either check out or show these two websites are doing Internet TV, and essentially on-going video podcasts:
www.dex.tv
www.therealnews.com/t/
If you would like to see a multimedia online magazine that I have created through Wordpress.com, check out http://kakonged.wordpress.com. There you will find blogging stories, pictures, podcasts, video blogs and video podcasts. I highly recommend you start one yourself if you can find the time so you can show it to your students. It is tremendous fun and I know you would really enjoy it.
More on multimedia magazines...to create an online .pdf copy of a magazine here are some sites:
http://www.joomla.org/
http://drupal.org/
www.xanga.com
http://www.uniflip.com/
Design Information:
If you want a really unique design for your site…here are some sources where if you have some money…you can get it done:
http://www.doodlebuddesign.blogspot.com/
http://wp-design.org/
http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/
http://wp-design.net/
http://wpdesignblog.com/
http://wpdesignpro.com/
http://fleuron.com/?gclid=COaX3_W9npsCFSgYagodyRJ3Bg
This list is always developing and growing.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Using the Web to Realize Journalism Goals
It's a bit of a catch-22 having advertising on a blog site. Sometimes advertising material will be included that I, as the writer, do not agree with. I remember the days when the Internet was a free forum - and there are still things that you can get on the Internet for free. However, now, everyone seems to want to figure out how they can make money from the Internet.
I find myself spending a lot of my free time updating my sites and doing podcasts. I also spend a lot of time writing and self-publishing books. I do not make a lot of money from these tasks - definitely not enough that I could live on it alone, yet I enjoy doing these things immensely. My magazine Donna is a long-held dream of mine. I always tended to find that when I was paid to work for a magazine in the past, with the exception of New Dreamhomes and Condominiums Magazine - things always seemed to go wrong. There always seemed to be some sort of screw up, difference of opinion and people in the magazine industry can sometimes be difficult to work for. However, the joy of working for a magazine is exactly what I am sure keeps so many people in that industry.
Now that I have Donna Magazine, I have been able to bring to light some stories that had long since been buried. With the wonders of the Internet (which I do love), I have even made the magazine multimedia and I plan to start posting up some of my old documentaries on the magazine, as well as producing new ones.
As for the podcasts - well, this gives me a chance to produce my own radio episodes any way I would like to do so. I do not have to worry about CBC cuts, about getting bumped out of my job by senior reporters or even having to get my story pitches "greenlighted" by a producer. If I think the story is good - I can do it. The only thing I need to worry about is that I am using my allotted free space on Podomatic (I could also increase it by going pro). Plus, I can also put podcasts on my magazine.
My books are another story that I will get to in another post. Thanks for listening and I hope that if you have a love for freedom of expression, you find ways to make the Internet work for you too.
I find myself spending a lot of my free time updating my sites and doing podcasts. I also spend a lot of time writing and self-publishing books. I do not make a lot of money from these tasks - definitely not enough that I could live on it alone, yet I enjoy doing these things immensely. My magazine Donna is a long-held dream of mine. I always tended to find that when I was paid to work for a magazine in the past, with the exception of New Dreamhomes and Condominiums Magazine - things always seemed to go wrong. There always seemed to be some sort of screw up, difference of opinion and people in the magazine industry can sometimes be difficult to work for. However, the joy of working for a magazine is exactly what I am sure keeps so many people in that industry.
Now that I have Donna Magazine, I have been able to bring to light some stories that had long since been buried. With the wonders of the Internet (which I do love), I have even made the magazine multimedia and I plan to start posting up some of my old documentaries on the magazine, as well as producing new ones.
As for the podcasts - well, this gives me a chance to produce my own radio episodes any way I would like to do so. I do not have to worry about CBC cuts, about getting bumped out of my job by senior reporters or even having to get my story pitches "greenlighted" by a producer. If I think the story is good - I can do it. The only thing I need to worry about is that I am using my allotted free space on Podomatic (I could also increase it by going pro). Plus, I can also put podcasts on my magazine.
My books are another story that I will get to in another post. Thanks for listening and I hope that if you have a love for freedom of expression, you find ways to make the Internet work for you too.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
New Opportunity Learning Centre
The interview went well today. I just finished editing the story down that I plan to put on my podcast on Thursday afternoon if I can. The website for my podcast is: http://kakonged.podomatic.com. Listen out to a podcast about exercising from me for tomorrow morning. I am also in discussion about doing writing classes with the centre as well.
I got my first volunteer submission for Donna Magazine from Roselyn Keledra-Sedra. You can find her article on my multimedia online magazine at: http://kakonged.wordpress.com. I also just found out that all of the books I have published have now been made available through Amazon.com. Look out for them and buy early and buy often. Thank you.
I got my first volunteer submission for Donna Magazine from Roselyn Keledra-Sedra. You can find her article on my multimedia online magazine at: http://kakonged.wordpress.com. I also just found out that all of the books I have published have now been made available through Amazon.com. Look out for them and buy early and buy often. Thank you.
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