Resources

Handouts (in order of class use, pretty much)

Photoshop
Intro: Crop, size & save images for the Web
Photoshop Type & Color Tips

Slideshows
Soundslide_prepupdate09 Audio Slideshows: Telling a story through pictures and sound
Soundslides: “Ridiculously Easy Storytelling” (online version for 2006 class)

Audio
Introduction to SoundtrackPro
STP Shortcuts From Knight Digital Media Center
Knight Digital Media Center: Soundtrack Pro
Normalizing audio levels in STPro (video)

Web Design & Coding
Creating a Web Page with HTML Coding
Webmonkey’s HTML Cheatsheet
(X)HTML and Styles
Basic Web terms
Review basic Web quiz

Design Review
Visual Editing, Review

Dreamweaver
First Steps
Working with tables
DW-CS3 Style Sheets

Mashups
Google Map Mashup
Video: How to make a Google Map mashup (New York)
Making a Google My Map (San Francisco walking tour)
Same Google My Map video/SF, but on YouTube

Rollovers, Swaps and Loops
Image Swaps
Looping Images (Flash in DW CS3)

Veterans Project
Veterans Listening Day

Video
Video Techniques Knight Digital Media Center
Shooting Video B-Roll
Online Video
How to use the voiceover tool in Final Cut Pro Video to accompany handout
Voiceover in Final Cut Pro Jazzier, longer version that shows process of adding the voiceover, not just making it. Good part about testing levels.
See Final Cut Pro tutorial below

Flash
Pumpkin-Smashing Intro to Flash Animation: Tweens, Symbols, Tools
Ace of Cakes: Frame by Frame
ActionScript Stop Code

Visualization Tools
VizTools: A selection

Organizational Strategies
Naming Conventions: Boot Camp Style

Copyright
Larry Lessig on Laws that Strangle Creativity TED talk, 2007
Free Culture O.Reilly Open Source Conference, 2002

Return to CSS
CSS: Layout Without Tables (Tuesday, Nov. 17)
Updated CSS Layout Tutorial (Thursday, Nov. 19, 5 p.m.)
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Additional resources arranged by topic
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Archives & Collections
Life magazine archives
Blog Directory
Placeblogger
Newseum: Today’s Front Pages Daily aggregation of newspaper fronts from around the world
Newseum: Archived Front Pages
Interactive Narratives Online News Association

Audio
Present It! Audio
Gathering Audio Brian Storm
TUTORIAL GarageBand: Basic Editing
TUTORIAL Audacity

Code
HTML Cheatsheet Webmonkey
A Simple Guide to HTML
CSS Stylesheets Guide Webmonkey
J-Learning’s HTML
J-Learning’s CSS Style Sheets

Data Visualization/Mapping
Data Visualization and Infographic Resources

Design
Tables of Content: Creative and Beautiful Examples
Before & After: How To Design Cool Stuff
Good & Bad Web Design Features Url’s Internet Cafe / Robin Williams

Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver CS3 Tutorial Includes CSS directions for style sheet and site layout; also links to a Spry tutorial and free templates

Editing & Data Mining
10 Most Common Grammar Errors (Note, however, that the advice on serial comma placement does not conform to AP Style)
20 Most Common Errors Excellent comma advice, except for that ole’ AP serial comma thing. Great examples overall.
Common Mistakes and Tricky Choices Searchable by letter; terrific resource.
Online Writing Lab See “Grammar and Mechanics” in right rail
Where to get reliable numbers online

FinalCutPro
Knight Digital Media tutorial

Flash
Mindy McAdams: Three 10-Minute Tutorials
Building a Web site with Flash CS3 Easy-to-follow tutorials

Guides to Legal Usage
Creative Commons Standards
EFF Legal Guide for Bloggers

Interviewing
StoryCorps Do-It-Yourself-Guide

Learning Styles
Index of learning styles/Quiz
What’s your learning style?
Learning Styles: Take Your Test
Inventory produces graphical results

Neighborhoods
Historic Preservation Neighborhoods in Phoenix

Photography
How To Photograph… Tutorials from the Digital Photography School

Photoshop
30 useful Photoshop tutorials Henry Jones

Portfolios

Reporting
Reporting Community Data

Slideshows
5 common slideshow mistakes
Photoshop How-Tos for Soundslides Mindy McAdams/Journalist’s Toolbox
Creating Audio Slideshows (Soundslides)Tom Priddy/Spartanburg Herald-Journal
How to make your audio slideshows better Colin Mulvany/Spokesman-Review
TUTORIAL Knight Digital Media Lab Guide to Soundslides Note links to eight modules on right-hand side of page

Storytelling
Ira Glass on Storytelling A video series