For the past few months I’ve been working to make the National Diploma in Journalism, a New Zealand industry standard qualification, available for online study through Wintec. It’s a big project which has demanded a lot of work by a core group of people and which has also involved a lot of imagining – how [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
So the Fieldays Exhibitor is done and dusted for another year. Phew. Here are the front pages: You can see some of the stories at our new website, mediarts.net.nz, which aims to showcase the work of students of Wintec‘s School of Media Arts along with school events and some of the inspiring work our staff [...]
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I’m two days into production of a four-day daily newspaper produced by Wintec journalism, design and photography students. It’s an awesome process to transform a space set up for teaching into a fully fledged newsroom for four days a year. We don’t have much kit. Content management system? Pah! say the beancounters to that. So [...]
Monday, November 3, 2008
A week or so ago Frank Torley, the executive producer of Country Calendar, came to Hamilton to speak at Wintec's Media Bites function. Here's what he had to say on why the programme's so successful and how the team go about telling stories: "I don't know... I'd like to believe that the New Zealand public recognises quality. The beginning of that process is research. If anybody says 'Why is Country Calendar successful?' -- research, research, research. Keep doing it, find the story. What is the story, what are the people like, what else can we do?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Country Calendar must be one of the few New Zealand media institutions that truly count as 'iconic'. The weekly programme, which casts light on NZ farming, hasn't looked back since its launch in 1966 and the current theme tune must be one of the most readily identifiable sounds for any Kiwi. This clip gives a glimpse of what the programme used to look, and sound, like.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Here's me sharing my Facebook page (among other things) at the eFest education conference in Auckland earlier today. The picture comes courtesy of Thom Cochrane, academic advisor at Unitec, who was in the audience, snapped the pic on his Nokia n95, posted it to his blog and referred to it in his presentation which followed.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
This has been a good week with much spirited conversation about journalism, daily news and how the web is changing how, where and when we get our news. It's Spark Week at Wintec in Hamilton - a festival of international and local speakers, workshops, films and exhibitions open to students, staff and the community at large.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
I've been in the process of moving house - to a place with no internet access - while spending a busy week producing the Fieldays Exhibitor, an annual publication created by Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) students and distributed to exhibitors at the Fieldays agricultural show out at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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