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I’ve built self-hosted websites in WordPress for two courses I teach regularly, and this semester, I added a new plugin: Anthologize. It’s a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily create PDF or ebook collections of your blog posts. Here’s
I have a new post up at PBS MediaShift about Magpile, a new social network designed around the love of the print magazine. As founder Dan Rowden said: “I don’t want Magpile to become somewhere that digital is ‘the thing,’
I’m hoping to use three new-to-me online tools next year in my teaching. 1. Pinterest. Yes, I’m as tired of the hype around Pinterest as anyone (and I might have contributed to that hype a bit), but I do think
I have a new post up at PBS MediaShift, covering a new development at digital magazine company Zinio. Zinio is now creating Content Collections: Zinio staff highlight a selection of articles from Zinio’s digital magazine offerings, mixing and matching stories
I just finished reading a recent magazine. It featured a significant food section, with decadent recipes and attractive food photography. I flipped past those pages in record time to get to something more interesting. Why? These recipes had no story. Most
I’m getting more and more excited about redesigning my classes this summer around the “flipped classroom” concept. (You might want to read this before going on, if you are unfamiliar with this idea. Here’s a great explainer from EDUCAUSE in PDF
I have a new post at PBS MediaShift this morning, examining some creative ways magazines are using Pinterest. I tried to go beyond the standard boards that it seems every major magazine has created on the site to find some
I had a great time doing a roundtable presentation on teaching with social media at the Western Political Science Association conference yesterday. The roundtable was organized by Janni Aragon of the University of Victoria, who unfortunately wasn’t able to attend,
I’m following the nascent debate over the need for more formal standards for curation of web content. The recent release of the “Curator’s Code” has sparked debate over whether we need not just symbols (ᔥ for ‘via’ and ↬ for ‘hat tip’)
I was honored to be asked to present some thoughts on preparing students for working on digital magazines at this weekend’s Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium at Virginia Tech. I was on a panel with