Earlier this month we published a how-to guide for using StorymapJS to create a location-based immersive experience, but that is not the only way in which the tool can be used. It also has a feature ...

Earlier this week, I posted a URL to a screencast created by Meg Martin showing how to post blogs in our seminar blog. Here’s the URL: http://www.poynterextra.org ...

Using technology in the classroom can sometimes feel overwhelming, but that shouldn’t be a reason to neglect using it. For a long time, I relied on my students to know how to use technology as I was ...

Teaching somebody to do something on the computer is always tough. Words go a long way, and pictures are a big help, but nothing can beat the simple immediacy of a video. Fortunately, it’s never been ...

In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, a “screencast” is a recording of your desktop. It’s an ideal way to demonstrate something, like how to use a complicated feature in Microsoft Office (or how to ...

Datawrapper is a free, open source tool for making simple but effective graphs to visualise data for a story. At Journalism.co.uk we regularly use Datawrapper to chart figures from the Audit Bureau of ...