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Training schedule for Vietnam

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 by Mindy McAdams

This is the outline for the week, with one three-hour session before lunch and 3.5 hours after lunch, each day. All those attending the sessions will be newspaper journalists, as far as I know now.

Monday

Morning: How U.S. journalists use and write blogs
Afternoon: How to make your own blog (hands-on)

Software needed: WordPress.com Web site (free)

Tuesday

Morning: Online audio and podcasts
Afternoon: How to gather and edit audio (hands-on)

Hardware needed:

Digital audio recorders for each 2 or 3 participants to use
Loudspeakers for my laptop computer
Headphones for each computer used by participants

Software needed:

Audacity, including the LAME MP3 encoder, installed and configured (free)
Switch file format converter (free)

Wednesday

Morning: Audio slideshows (rationale and examples)
Afternoon: How to create an online slideshow with audio (hands-on)

Software needed: Soundslides demo version (free)

Hardware needed:

Loudspeakers for my laptop computer
Headphones for each computer used by participants

Thursday

Morning: Useful tools for journalists — RSS feeds and readers; social bookmarking
Afternoon: Online maps; how to create an online map (hands-on)

Software needed:

Google Reader (Web site)
del.icio.us (Web site)
FMAtlas (Web site)
Google Maps

Friday

Morning: Online video practices at U.S. newspapers
Afternoon: How to edit video (hands-on)

Software needed: Windows Movie Maker (free)

Hardware needed:

Loudspeakers for my laptop computer
Headphones for each computer used by participants

Hoping this will work, as it’s not yet clear what kind of gear and software will be available to us during the training sessions.

Posted in journalism, vietnam | 3 Comments

3 Responses to “Training schedule for Vietnam”

on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 5:04 am1 Graham

Just discovered you’re training in Vietnam. Been a long time dipper into your journalism blog. I lived in Vietnam for ten years and blogged the food. See the right hand column here

http://www.noodlepie.com

Unfortunately, I can’t tell whether you’re in Saigon or Hanoi doing the training. If it’s Hanoi you’d best look here (for food)

http://stickyrice.typepad.com/

And for the very latest on Saigon here:

http://gastronomyblog.com/
on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 8:07 am2 Mindy McAdams

Hey, Graham, I have enjoyed your Noodle Pie blog for some time. Sorry you are no longer in HCMC. I will be in both Hanoi (one week) and HCMC (one week).

I will eat a lot — having lived in Washington, D.C., I have been introduced to lots of Vietnamese food, and I love it! I always eat pho even now whenever I have a bad cold (and at other times as well). I’m very fond of banh cuon and banh xeo and, of course, all manner of pau (bau in Malaysia).
on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 4:07 am3 Graham

I find it quite odd that you’re there doing what you’re doing and I do the same in London for the Frontline Club

http://www.frontlineclub.com/club_training.php?id=373

I really should get some gigs over there again…

Apart from Bun cha in Hanoi… forget it. Eat in the south. For great Banh cuon, try the stall inside Ben Thanh market

http://www.noodlepie.com/2004/07/stall_1006_banh.html

One of the best Banh xeo in Saigon is at 46A Dinh Cong Trang Street,

http://www.noodlepie.com/2004/05/pancake_pushers.html

But, for me, the dish I miss the most is possibly the simplest of the lot, but impossible to replicate outside of the south of Vietnam. Banh Trang Phoi Suong, 188 Nguyen Van Thu Street

http://www.noodlepie.com/2005/04/porked.html

Enjoy. Most jealous…