Links and resources from the 2010 Free Spirit New Media Technologies session with Val Hoeppner and Jack Marsh. Download the PDF.

This month I’m watching multimedia, photojournalism, free software websites and one hilarious YouTube video.

A list and links to compelling multimedia stories from Media Storm, New York Times, BBC, American Poverty.org and others.

“What I’m Watching” is a new feature of the Resources Blog. It is a way for the Multimedia Guru to share multimedia stories, online journalism and new technologies.

No budget for training? The Web is rife with resources for training staff and helping you do your job. Below are some of the links I shared at the Associated Press Photo Managers conference in St. Louis. Add your favorites to the comments section of this post.
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The Washington Post video project, “Last Chance High School” tells the story of “candidates” at Freestate Challenge Academy in Maryland, a 17-month program that allows at-risk youth to receive military-style training and a GED.

Links to free websites and applications for producing multimedia. Do you have a favorite? Share it in our comment section.

Let the sun shine in. The U.S. Senate has joined the U.S. House in allowing XML or raw data feeds of members’ votes. Who cares? If you are an online journalist (aren’t we all?) then this is a way for you to efficiently track how your state’s representatives in Washington vote.

What happens in Vegas only stays in Vegas if it is not caught on video. Sarah Welliver, an American Indian Journalism Institute alum and Chips Quinn Scholar, attended the 2008 APME and APPM conferences in Las Vegas as a member of the student multimedia project administered by the Diversity Institute.

“Final Edition” is an excellent piece of video journalism by the staff of The Rocky Mountain News. The video chronicles the final weeks of the newspaper and its staff.