You don’t need a camera to get video: you can do it with a smartphone. You don’t need a smartphone to shoot bad video: you can do it with a camera. This post from “Media Helping Media” tells how to shoot clips that folks will want to watch and share. Your work has a better [...]

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom created a schemata that has become the standard illustration of the learning process. He started with lower order thinking skills, such as  knowledge and comprehension, that provided the foundation for higher levels skills such as analysis and evaluation. Fifty-years later, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been modified to reflect the transformation of learning [...]

Carnegie Mellon is sharing its lectures on building an iPad app. You can download the lectures from the school’s iTunes Store. Did I mention it’s free? You’ll need to know HTML and CSS to get started, but this is a course for beginners. I’ll try to learn thru the lectures, and I’ll blog about it [...]

Go to the CameraSim Blog and play with all the simulators. Just click the post headlines to find them. Learning DSLR photography can be a painful experience, especially when it comes to determining exposure by manipulating aperture,ISO and shutter speed. But CameraSim makes it all better again. This simulator lets you play with the basic [...]

The Cleveland Collage Project aims to assemble portrait of Greater Cleveland that is inclusive, accurate, nuanced and complete. It’s my reaction to the Rust Belt coverage I’ve seen in national media like the Washington Post, the New York Times and CBS. I’m not saying the stories weren’t accurate. I’m saying they were framed. What is [...]

Engagement is the new buzz word in media circles. Blog post and articles tout techniques to get folks involved with and talking about content.  But an obvious point is overlooked: if the content is powerful, conversation will flow. What could be more powerful than a speech by  Dr. Martin Luther King? I’m not talking about [...]

Long time ago, Glamour magazine did a feature: “I knew I’d made it when…” The respondents filled in the blank with story of when they realized they’d become successful. So here’s mine. “I knew I’d reinvented myself when I got called to photograph President Obama’s speech at Shaker Heights High School.”  Now the turning point [...]

Update I’ve only been working on this series a week, but the response has been fantastic. We’ve gotten followers, suggestions and comments. My favorites so far: The Bessers who recognized their grandfather’s store in our first photo; the children of Gail Kirschenbaum Bash, who contributed a story about her recycling efforts. I’m learning quite a [...]

With all the research I do on the web, I’m constantly coming across sites that promise much but deliver little. I’m sharing three new (to me) sites that are should be added to your subscriber or bookmark list. These sites have more than good content; they’re inspirational and motivational. In other words, they’ll make you [...]

I’ve included resources on multimedia, audio and documentary making.