JOUR 7040 - International News Lab

Online J-course

• J-Learning

Wordpress tutorials

• http://wordpress2go.com/

• http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/

Security and Circumvention

• Using Tor to get around net censorship/blocks

Dreamweaver & FTP

• Dreamweaver by J-Learning
• Dreamweaver by Berkeley’s Knight Center

• FTP with Filezilla
• FTP using FireFTP for Firefox
• Installing FireFTP for Firefox

Notes:

Home page is called index.htm or index.html

Filenames: Use lowercase only; use letters and numbers only; can use - and _ (hyphens and underscores) but DO NOT use commas, question marks or other punctuation. Do NOT use spaces in filenames.

RIGHT: football.htm WRONG Football.htm

RIGHT: football-word-cup.htm WRONG football’s&^Wordcup.htm and football worldcup.htm

Other useful links:

• http://www.website-designs.com/ - good for free backgrounds, clipart and graphics - remember to respect the link-back requirement
• http://www.widgetbox.com/ - widgets
• http://www.htmlbasix.com/iframe.shtml - iframe code generator
• Iframe generator - alternative
• Drop down menu generator - http://www.ricocheting.com/js/drop.html
• Texty - http://www.texty.com
• Your classwork is stored at: http://www.ijs-global.com/class09/yourname

Soundslides - download from http://www.soundslides.com

Tutorials:

• Popphoto

• Knight Center

Audio

Audacity is a free sound editing program - get it here

Tutorials:

• Super-Fast Guide to Audio Editing (PDF) and Editing Audio With Audacity (PDF) by Mindy McAdams.
• Audio section of the J-Learning website.
• “Chapter 7: Digital Audio and Podcasting” from Journalism 2.0
• Handy Audacity Tutorials
• Tutorial to convert your WMA file to an MP3 file
• Tutorial to install the MP3 encoder (for you to export MP3 files from Audacity)

Tutorials Tutorials