Moving forward

I can't believe it's the middle of July. Where has the summer gone? I've spent the majority of my time 'tweaking' our WordPress installations for the Multimedia Newsroom blog and the Multimedia Reporting blog. I've also been acting editor for the Intern blog (I do hope you've checked this blog out, our very own Adam Sechrist is an intern for Good Morning America, and we've got pictures and video of him from a show a couple of weeks ago).

We spent a good chunk of time yesterday hashing out the changes we want to make to tv.ku.edu and its back-end system. At this time last summer, we were looking at several different Content Management Systems, trying to decide how we could take the Multimedia Reporting class to the next level. Dreamweaver was proving to be too much, and we felt like the students were spending too much time putting the story online, and not enough time thinking about the best way to utilize the medium. Today, as I look back, I can see we've come a long way. The blog is a great way to manage the reporting student content. It's a little bit of HTML and a whole lot of learning to how to tell the story. And, our home grown CMS that manages the TV web site was a good project for both student programmers and student journalists. I am very pleased with the creativity and skills of these students. I hope as we continue to move forward we will explore new ways to manage content and tell stories online.