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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Intro 2 PJ students finally get to shoot their first assignment

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   Scholastic photojournalists – it’s finally time for you to practice what I’ve been preaching for the past two months.    You...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

My video story on local musician Earl Cookie

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Just thought I'd share my latest video on Toledo busker Earl Cookie. I initially was concentrating on video, but after the fourth mee...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Owens Outlook newspaper student staffers have heart, guts

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  Every time I walk into an Outlook student staff meeting on Thursdays, I am filled with pride at the dozen or so eager faces sitti...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Power of photography, speech freedom: topics for guest speakers at University of Toledo, Kent State University

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 Next week is going to be a monumental week for college and high school journalism/photojournalism students throughout the Buckeye ...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

On why PJ interns are a kick in the pants to veteran staffers

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   Most photojournalism majors are required to intern at a newspaper during their scholastic careers.    Internships are necessar...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Intro to PJ students now staff photographers for The Outlook

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 The Intro to Photojournalism class is small, as it usually is, but it will make a big difference in the Owens community...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Lesson One: To understand news is to be a better citizen

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   Welcome Intro to Photojournalism students!    Get ready to stock your photography portfolio, extend your social media reach an...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Intro to PJ blog to include KSU's Teaching Multimedia class

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   This blog was created for Intro to Photojournalism students in 2011. It is a great social media tool for documenting course objectives an...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

See you in August!

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This course blog will resume the week of Aug. 19, when school resumes for Fall semester. Can't wait!
Saturday, May 25, 2013

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Monday, February 25, 2013

How to prepare a competitive photojournalism portfolio

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The Blade's Dave Zapotosky viewing a student portfolio.    It’s that time again. Hundreds of student photojournalists are s...
Monday, February 18, 2013

rustwire.com publishes work of Intro to PJ students

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   Nothing makes an instructor prouder than seeing the work of our students get recognized.    I'm happy to announce my PHO245 students...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Tutorial on retrieving a URL for Soundslides projects

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   This is the Camtasia Studio tutorial on retrieving a URL for Soundslides using Dropbox.com. For many semesters we were at a loss at how ...

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 Bittersweet Farms Soundslides
Friday, December 14, 2012

This course will be in temporary hiatus until Fall semester

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 Stay tuned: I will post the URL to rustwire.com when the Burned Soundslides project is published. To view individual student photo stories...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Students finish production of Burned, a photo story on arson

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This photo was taken at one of the arson sites by PHO245 student Amarrah Smith: http://amarrahsmithocc.blogspot.com Amarrah paid atten...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Students turn their cameras to homes destroyed by arson

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   When students signed up for the Intro to Photojournalism course this semester, they had no idea they would be shooting Toledo-area homes...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Intro to PJ student is a journalist waiting to happen

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This is one of several photos taken at an Owens basketball game by PHO245 student Lynn Redding, my student of the week.     First I s...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Features, portraits and sports, oh my!

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This is a blog post by Miranda, who used a photo slideshow gadget.    The PJ course is more than half way over, and ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Students learn about reciprocity and the power of display

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Reciprocity is a lesson in camera control Take note of the blurry background in this image of a moving vehicle. This effec...