Comments on: LSJ off(line) on ’net news http://robjwells.com/2010/01/lsj-online-journalism/ Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Martin Stabe http://robjwells.com/2010/01/lsj-online-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Martin Stabe Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:41:34 +0000 http://www.robjwells.com/?p=295026272#comment-32 <p>Your criticism of teaching Dreamweaver as the key component of "online journalism" is spot on. This debate has been <a href="http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/02/15/why-teach-journalism-students-dreamweaver/" rel="nofollow">going on for years</a>.</p> <p>Most - nearly all - journalists will never have to do HTML markup, let alone template design, during their entire working lives. They will, however, need to know how to operate a CMS, crop images for the web etc, from the minute they set foot in a newsroom.</p> <p>The tiny minority of journalists who do need to know web design or development skills need a far deeper level of understanding than an brief introduction to Dreamweaver can offer.</p> Your criticism of teaching Dreamweaver as the key component of “online journalism” is spot on. This debate has been going on for years.

Most – nearly all – journalists will never have to do HTML markup, let alone template design, during their entire working lives. They will, however, need to know how to operate a CMS, crop images for the web etc, from the minute they set foot in a newsroom.

The tiny minority of journalists who do need to know web design or development skills need a far deeper level of understanding than an brief introduction to Dreamweaver can offer.

]]> By: Patrick Smith › Online journalism education: the trouble with adapting to an online age http://robjwells.com/2010/01/lsj-online-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Patrick Smith › Online journalism education: the trouble with adapting to an online age Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:07:49 +0000 http://www.robjwells.com/?p=295026272#comment-31 <p>[...] just a little bit more critical of his course at the Lincoln School of Journalism and lays down a lengthy challenge to his journalism college at the University of Lincoln and calls for action now: "Students [...]</p> [...] just a little bit more critical of his course at the Lincoln School of Journalism and lays down a lengthy challenge to his journalism college at the University of Lincoln and calls for action now: “Students [...]

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