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REQUIRED

  • AP Stylebook (available online)
  • A good dictionary and thesaurus (available online)

    • THREE-RING BINDER
    Buy a three-ring binder just for this class. A three-hole punch will be handy. You’ll be receiving a lot of material. It’ll be easier to stay organized if you keep everything in a binder with topics separated by dividers.

  • A three-ring binder with dividers to hold your notes and handouts
  • Firewire portable hard drive to store audio and video. Since you’ll be using Final Cut Pro and our classroom won’t be available at all times, you’ll need to take your projects to another lab to edit. The hard drive should be a FireWire 400, not just USB, and the size of the drive should be at least 100 GB. Shop around for sales online. Or try the ASU Computer Store, Costco, Office Depot or Fry’s Electronics.
  • MyFiles: Each student is allocated 4GB of personal space, available in all Cronkite and ASU labs AND anywhere there’s an Internet connection. MyFiles is accessible through MyASU (under My Tools on the right side of the page). The Cronkite School no longer offers the Students volume.
  • A creative spirit and an open mind

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RECOMMENDED SOFTWARE

  • Recommended option: Download free applications (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash and more) from apps.asu.edu.
    1. Go to http://apps.asu.edu.
    2. Install client.
    3. Run app. Accept all defaults.
  • Adobe Photoshop CS4. You can buy an earlier version for less on eBay.
  • Adobe Creative Suite 4 (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Go Live, Illustrator and more). We have CS3 at the Cronkite School labs, so you’ll need to save your projects as CS3 if you want to work on them here. You can buy an earlier one for less on eBay.
  • You can download a free trial version of Dreamweaver or Photoshop for 30 days.
  • You can download a free version of Soundslides. To get rid of the annoying DEMO VERSION that appears when you play your show, simply open up your folder in a non-demo version and redo the Publish to Web.

ASU TECHNOLOGY STUDIO

It you’re having problems connecting to the wireless network or your system is infected with a virus, the ASU 1:1 Technology Studio on all four campuses will help you with hardware, software, security and networking issues.

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TUTORIALS


Will Kirkland On New Year’s Eve the residents of Puerto Ayora make effigies of politicians and other figures, then burn them at midnight.

RECOMMENDED ONLINE RESOURCES

  • Teaching Online Journalism. Mindy McAdams blog about the practice of online journalism.
  • Online Journalism Review. A free online trade journal you should keep up with. Several articles are usually added each week; the site also offers access to online news updates and other interesting tidbits. Please add it to your Favorites or Bookmarks list, and sample its offerings regularly
  • Monthly Focus Guide (in magazine section of bookstores). Comes with a CD video tutorial.

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
  • Books (Links to “Resources for Web Workers” by Mindy McAdams)
  • Online Journalism by James C. Foust (Scottsdale, Arizona: Holcomb Hathaway, 2008). Shows how to apply journalistic skills to the Internet.
  • The Non-Designer's Web Book (3rd edition) by Robin Williams and John Tollett (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2005). Although a bit elementary, it’s popular with beginning Web designers.
  • Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages by Mindy McAdams (Boston: Focal Press, 2005). The only how-to book on Flash written for journalists.

    • Will Kirkland Water taxis and inflatable zodiacs buzz around Puerto Ayora’s harbor.
  • HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS (Visual QuickStart Guide, 5th edition) by Elizabeth Castro (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2002). Includes good information about CSS and JavaScript.
  • Spring into HTML and CSS by M. Holzschlag (Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley, 2005). Simple, thorough instructions and insightful techniques for building Web pages from the ground up.
  • Adobe Photoshop CS/ImageReady CS for the Web Hands-On Training (H.O.T.) by Tanya Staples and Lynda Weinman (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2003). Excellent information on using Photoshop for Web design. Although the book is expensive, you can sometimes find it online at a lower price.
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Hands-on Training (H.O.T.) by Garo Green (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2004). The book and CD will walk you through a Dreamweaver project. Shop around online for a lower price.

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RECOMMENDED ONLINE MAGAZINES FOR DESIGN
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