August 2007 Archives
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Still choosing classes? Looking for one to add?
Don't overlook HU 265: THE ART OF FILM for a possible course in the Fall 2007 semester. Taught by Dr. Michael Arnzen, the film course will meet Wednesday evenings 6-8:30pm. We'll be studying both the history and aesthetics of the medium, from fascinating early silent films you've probably never seen before to bizarre and surreal art films to the popular Hollywood films of today. It's a fun and eye-opening course in every way. The class may meet requirements for your major. If you have any questions e-mail Dr. Arnzen
Former enrollee Bruce Siskawicz made this fun poster to grab your attention:
I'm just letting current power users know... if I were you, I wouldn't make any major site design changes, since you might have to do them over again when blogs.setonhill.edu upgrades to MT4.
Right now I plan to make sure that all your links work and that any video or other special files you have uploaded remain accessible in the new site, but due to some major changes in the MT4 database, I expect that everyone will have to make some individual changes to their site in order to keep it running. (I'll put the instructions up on a website as soon as I have them.)
More gory details follow...
I've been working on upgrading to MovableType 4, and it hasn't been going very well.
The MT user forms are down at the moment, and as it happens my service contract with MT has just expired, so I'm locked out of getting paid support tickets. (That's just temporary, as is, I hope, the forum outage, but of course it has to happen when you really need help.)
I wrote this with the intention of posting it to the tech support forum, so it will make no sense unless you are trying to install MT4 yourself. But here it is, since I can't really put it anywhere else useful at the moment.
More evidence of how important digital literacy is to the profession of journalism, and tJobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: New Media Meets Campus Media
About 91 percent of college newspapers had online presences in 2007, but the percentages are much lower for other forms of college media ? 36.3 percent for radio stations, 20.9 percent for television stations, 18.1 percent for magazines and 6 percent for yearbooks. There were, however, "appreciable gains" in the proportion of college media outlets using multimedia technologies in 2007 compared to 2006: For instance, in 2006, 20.9 percent used podcasts, versus 38.4 percent in 2007. The use of Weblogs increased from 19.8 to 35.8 percent, RSS feeds from 23.5 to 35.1 percent, streaming video from 16.6 to 30.5 percent, embedded video (including YouTube) from 9.6 to 42.4 percent and comments features from 39.6 to 57 percent.Meanwhile, even the smallest commercial newspapers, with 10,000 readers or fewer, are looking for reporting candidates with experience writing for the Web and uploading stories to the Internet, according to a survey of newspaper managing editors conducted by Wendelken and Toni B. Mehling of James Madison University. Of nine respondents in the ?large daily newspaper? category (those with a circulation of 44,000 and above), eight required reporters to have skills in capturing audio while four required audio editing skills. Five required reporters to have skills in capturing video, while one required video editing expertise. Major newspapers, said Wendelken, "are looking at reporters to do these things from the start."
