Digital skill survey results

I made in survey around the university about digital skills (survey form see Appendix). It called ‘Survey for Digital Skills, including thirteen normal digital skills, and two questions for each skill. I asked students which skills do you think are essential and hard to grasp. This was a basic survey, because this can be seen what important and difficult digital skills are for students in the basic technology.

I made a total of 40 questionnaires in March 22nd to 24th. From the survey I found:

1. Male thinks digital skills are more important then female, and 90% of men think that the majority of computer skills are very necessary.

2. With the increasing of blog, more people think and blog-related skills are become more important.

3. Mobile technology proportion also increased.

4. People tend to think that life is not a necessity for difficult skills, and general skills will be able to meet the needs in daily life.

5. The proportion of digital skills in Essential part (total 100%).

HTML: 10.5%; Blogging: 20.4%; Publishing: 18.7%; Advanced linking: 13.4%; Mobile skills: 6.9%; Others: 8.6%

6. The mark of digital skills in Hard Part (100 for each).

HTML: 62; Web design: 80; SEO: 67; Video-shoting: 52; Video-editing:70; Photoshop: 74; Flash:78; Others:20

Google Map and Google SketchUp

Google Map:

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

Google Maps are now widely used in people's lives. When people go to travel, they may do some research on GOOGLE maps to set plan. Google Map has evolved the traditional paper map in some extent.

People can create a map by themselves. This is a video to introduce how to make a google map.

Google Sketchup:

Google Sketchup is a powerful but simple graphics tool. Since Google bought Sketchup, it is free to download.

For me, this software very simple to use, especially after watching the video tutorial, even if the first operation, there would not be difficult to use, and the interface is very simple, and running very quickly, the software almost instantly started.

Video collection for video-shooting

In modern life, video-taking has not only engaged in professional staff. Now many people have liked taking videos. Video can record snippets of our lives, our memories of life.But as a professional journalist, video-shooting is a must to master skill. This is directly related to the quality of programming.

I looked for the three videos on Youtube, all are very useful for journalism students and the general public . The first one that is more professional. The second and the third is shooting skills to use the Flip .

Photoshop tutorial

Photoshop is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. Upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.

For me, photoshop is hard work, but interesting. I just know the basic tool to edit my photo. And there are many and many shills I don't know. I think it need a long time to learn. I wanted to show my skills, but I think you may think it is too basic. hehe... So, I found 2 good video on YouTube. Hope helpful!

Basic photoshop tool:


Advanced photoshop tool:

Basic Flash tutorial

There is a lot of Animation software, Director, LiveMotion, and so on, but we are most familiar, may still be Macromedia's Flash.
Flash is so popular because of: Flash not only can generate automatically executable file (*. exe), can also be generated with the Flash player to play the files (*. SWF); both can be made into a separate animation, such as self-made small movies, MTV, embedded in Web documents can become part of web page, such as website content navigation; Flash provides stream transmission, came out with it to produce the animation can download, as well as viewing, thus ensuring the playback quality, and to break the network speed restrictions.

But Flash is little harder to people who is first time to do it. There are 2 video for basic Flash tool:

Basic HTML tutorial

The HTML is basic language for internet, and is also important tool to edit websites. I think the basic network cannot without HTML language. But it is ashamed that I was not very proficient in HTML, and also requires a lot of learning. So I found some material online, let us learn from this amazing computer language.

1.What is HTML?

HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items.

2. HTML tags?

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
HTML tags normally come in pairs like and
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

3. The basic HTML language?

Example Explained
The text between and describes the web page
The text between and is the visible page content
The text between and is displayed as a heading the text between and is displayed as a pargarph


4. How to use?



Through these simple to learn, I now have some preliminary understanding of HTML. HTML more useful in editing than I imagined. Of course, if I want to learn more HTML, or take a long time to learn. Hope I can create a website by using HTML one day.

RSS

By the appearance of web 3.0, which people could not only read and write, but also could publish on the Internet. The RSS will be more familiar with public and helped journalists a lot. The acronym of RSS is stands for "really simple syndication”, and people could find an ‘orange icon’ on mostly websites. RSS can help people automatically to get contents of sites or blogs without the need for manually posting the contents . The RSS is a digital tool to help users can get newest things and articles. And the RSS feed could help bloggers to collect and analysis what the favorite thing of users. RSS allows people to stay informed with the latest content from the interested website easily, at the same time, people could save to prevent visit every individual website.

For the journalists, they can compare reader best loved news, and create more good news for readers, and at the same time, the media company could get more readership. For example, people only search many websites to find useful and interesting articles several years ago, and this is a one-way communication, so journalists could not get feedback for readers. However, people could use RSS to read the articles they interested in, and journalists could have a communication with their readers.

http://websearch.about.com/b/s.htm

Reference:

Kevin, K. (2003), Digital Journalism – Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, UK

http://com.miami.edu/car/cox00.pdf.

Social bookmarking

Pam said that “social bookmarking is an online method of storing, organizing, sharing and searching bookmarks of selected web pages” (2008). The social bookmarking is a digital tool to instead of saving website in favorite, and it is easy to share with others online (Nation, 2009). The most popular social bookmarking are reddit and delicious in the UK.

People can simply go to delicious and choose the category or tag that people interested in, and find the most popular websites, so people may focus on that website. In addition, if a website got many tags on it and public save it on the decious, it means that the website has plenty useful article to attract readers, so that the website or blog could get better rank.

The digital brings more platforms to journalism

With the development of science and technology, the journalism has entered a new era. Everyone is going digital now, even to an industry which contact to newest things. Now, more and more reporters use the way of online journalism to work. So, the digital newsroom leads to a great change for journalism.

The digital newsroom brings more working platforms to journalism. The Digital newsroom and multi-media changing the way and platform of reporters usually work. Reporters only could be print journalist who only outputs in print in the old media time, whereas now they can use network resources, and even multi-platform and multi-media.

(1) Normally used multi-media tools When we usually use the network, a wide range of multimedia tools in front of us, these multi-media tools is an integral part of digital newsroom. In fact, our network is a comprehensive multi-media tool. When I search on some information about environment, I would like to connect the Internet firstly, and then enter a number of related words, such as climate, location, interesting place, ect. Then choose to connect the information I need, and then through Photoshop and FrontPage to edit and revise, at last, they will be used on my blog. Of course, I need many multi-media tools. For example: word, PowerPoint, flash etc. These will make journalism more digital.

(2) The effects and benefits of using multi-media
1. Vivid images, easier to understand. Through using a number of multi-media software, editing images, text, animation and sound, the article will be written as well as vivid, and it will be better to remember in the reader's mind.
2. Contains large amount of information. An ordinary CD-ROM can accommodate 10,000 on the books. People can access to a large number of effective message in a short time through the network.
3. InteractiveMulti-media technology allows electronic media to disseminate information interactively. Information receptor as well as the information releaser, the receptor and releaser could exchange information in same platform. This is last media can not do.

Therefore, the new media will change the way people's lives. Development and application of digital newsroom brings a new sense and experience to journalism.

Reference: http://kexie.stu.edu.cn/list.asp?id=83

How to use Windows Movie Maker?

Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software, included in Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie.

After that, you can share your results with friends and family by Web, e-mail, personal computers or CD, or DVD. You can also save the movie to the video on the camera in television or play.

Supported formats for saving movies• Windows Media Video files:. Wmv• Windows Media Audio files:. Wma• DV / AVI video format:. Avi

Windows Movie Maker is a easy tool to edit video.

How to create your own blog with Blogger and Wordpress?

Blogger is a good platform to create your own blog. It is quite easier, and the Blogger provides many interneting digital tools for you to make your blog unique.

This is a first workshop for using Blogger -- create your own blog. In addittion, I will share my other experience of working with Blogger.

Wordpress is another good platform for people, and it is more professional.

What is digital?

When we talk about “digital”, most people would think of more difficult skills of the film or computer technology.

In fact, DIGITAL close from our modern life, such as searing the Internet to find information, join the Facebook, Twitter, etc. The simplest example is the use of digital cameras. Now, almost every family will have a digital camera, and frequently used in daily life. This has prompted a wide range of using Flickr.

In addition, as the network developed, people are happy to share their lives online log, this is - BLOG! Now there are countless Blogs online, according to statistics, there are 70 million BLOG on the Internet in July 2005. The Basic statistics is now no longer. Just for China, it had 72.82 million Blogs! Huge numbers!!

Therefore, modern people can not live without the colorful DIGITAL platform, of course, we are going to enjoy it!!


This is an amazing video. I said 'wow' after watched. This is the design process of digital media. Let us see how magic the digital media is !!