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REQUIRED

  • Claudette Guzan Artwick, Reporting and Producing for Digital Media (Ames, Iowa: Blackwell Publishing, 2004)
  • AP Stylebook
  • A good dictionary and thesaurus

    • 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
  • A creative spirit and an open mind
  • A USB flash drive (also known as a thumb drive or jump drive) to transfer files. Shop around for sales online. Or try the ASU Computer Store, Costco, Office Depot or Fry’s Electronics.
           Good: about $10 for 512 MB
           Better: about $20 for 1 GB
           Best: about $40 for 2 GB
  • Be sure to wait for the flash drive to finish loading before removing it from the computer. Otherwise, your data might be lost or corrupted.
  • Firewire external drive to store audio and video. Shop around for sales online. Or try the ASU Computer Store, Costco, Office Depot or Fry’s Electronics.
           80 GB, 7200 RPM (you carry the plug-in cord): about $50
           Self-powered 80 GB, 7200 RPM: about $90
           Self-powered 120 GB, 7200 RPM: about $120

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RECOMMENDED SOFTWARE

  • Adobe Photoshop CS. You can buy an earlier version for less on eBay.
  • Adobe Creative Suite 2 (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Go Live, Illustrator and more). If you want to work on projects at home, you can buy this version or an earlier one for less on eBay. Otherwise, you’ll have to use the ASU computer labs.
  • 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.
  • For about $25 a month you can subscribe to lynda.com and do practice tutorials of Photoshop, Dreamweaver and more.

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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, 2005). 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, 2003). 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 Hands-on Training (H.O.T.) by Garo Green (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2003). The book and CD will walk you through a Dreamweaver project. Shop around online for a lower price.
  • Barnes & Noble sells an inexpensive series of basic primers on Photoshop, Dreamweaver, web page design, Web graphics and so forth. These books are sometimes on sale for half price!

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RECOMMENDED ONLINE MAGAZINES FOR DESIGN
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