Magazinefactory - Journalist'S Guide

MagazineFactory – Journalist’s guide
1. General information .............................................................................................................................2

2. Journalist’s responsibilities...................................................................................................................2
3. How to start...........................................................................................................................................2
4. My Info..................................................................................................................................................3
5. Articles..................................................................................................................................................5
6. Create an image article.........................................................................................................................5
7. Imagegallery..........................................................................................................................................6
8. Teamspace.............................................................................................................................................6
Producer Christian Komonen, E-mail: christian.komonen@oph.fi, Tel. +358 9 7747 7454, Mobile +358 400 899 224
JOURNALIST’S GUIDE 2 (7)
23.11.2005
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
MagazineFactory is an interactive tool for developing and producing web magazines for various educational and
communications purposes. School classes in different countries can produce a webmagazine together and learn
how to write journalistic articles. This user guide is for students who will act as the magazine’s journalists.
Please read this guide before starting to use MagazineFactory.
MagazineFactory projects are always lead by a teacher/responsible adult. One teacher acts as the magazine’s
chief editor and is responsible for the magazine and his own editorial staff. Other teachers will act as editors and
lead their own editorial group under chief editor’s supervision.
2. JOURNALIST’S RESPONSIBILITIES
As a journalist you will produce information and articles to your magazine. You will learn the publishing process;
how an article goes through editing before being published on the magazine. As a journalist you have the
responsibility to write accurate information and enjoyable articles.
Remember copyrights when creating articles or image articles, you can’t use written or photographic material
without the copyright holders permission. Students can use free internet image galleries (like www.freefoto.com)
for educational purposes.
3. HOW TO START
Your teacher will create the magazine and user initials to your class. You receive the user initials via e-mail or
the teacher will deliver the initials some other way. You will receive a username, a password and a link to the
magazine. You need the username and password to log into the magazine.
Either click the magazine’s link in the e-mail or write the magazine’s internet address in your browser. The
magazine’s address is in the form: http://www2.edu.fi/magazinefactory/magazines/yourmagazinenamehere
When the magazine’s frontpage opens, click the Log in –link in the top navigation bar.
Picture 1: Log in link in the magazine’s top navigation bar
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Fill in your username and password to the form. Click Log in.
Picture 2: Log in form
After you have successfully logged in, you enter the magazine’s administration.
Picture 3: Journalist’s opening page
Start by modifying your own User information in the My info-section. Click the My info –link in the left.
4. MY INFO
My info page is your personal user- and contact information page. Here you can modify your username,
password and photograph. The phone –field is not mandatory for journalists. Write your description to the text
area. The description is visual to other journalists.
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Picture 4: My info -page, upper part
If you wan to change your user name or password, you can do it on the bottom of the page. Remember to click
Save after you are done.
Picture 5: My info –page, lower part
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5. ARTICLES
Click the Articles – create an article -link in the left for creating your article.
1. Select the group your article belongs to. For example a sport result to article group "Sport". If a suitable
group is not available, suggest your editor to create one.
2. Give the article a title and write a short description of the article. The description text will be shown to
the user, so write an interesting description so that the user will wan to read the whole story.
3. Write the article content in the text editor. You can modify the font and text settings and insert
pictures. Please note that you need to upload the picture to the magazine's picture gallery before you
can add it to your article.
Picture 6: the text editor
The text editor has different commands to help you. You can add a picture to the article (the picture needs to
be in the image gallery first), you can underline words, create links and format the texts visual appearance.
You can see the commands by moving the cursor on top of the small icon.
4. Click Save when your text is ready.
5. After saving the text you can send it to your editor, who will read it before publishing. You don't need to
send the text right away. You can modify as many times as you need before sending it to your editor. If you
change the article after you have sent it to the editor, the changes will not be visible to the editor.
6. CREATE AN IMAGE ARTICLE
Image article is a series of ten pictures with short text descriptions. You upload the pictures from your computer,
one picture per page. After you have uploaded the picture and written the Image text, click the Add new page
link below.
You can add new pages between pages. After you have finished the picture article, click Save and after preview,
click Publish. Journalists can’t publish image articles. Like written articles, the image article will be sent to chief
editor and editor for approval and publishing.
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7. IMAGEGALLERY
Journalists can use pictures in their articles from the Gallery. Gallery is open for all journalists and they can
upload maximum five pictures per journalist. Only chief-editor can add or delete categories in the gallery.
Picture 7: Add image
Add the image by clicking Browse-button. Select the picture file from your computer and click Open. The
picture’s name appears in the text field below Add image. Select a group and your picture will be added to the
selected group.
Remember to click Save when you are done!
8. TEAMSPACE
Teamspace is the magazine’s internal discussion area. The journalists can see other journalists’ pictures (if they
are uploaded) and descriptions. If you want to modify your own description, click the My Info-button below
TeamSpace.
Forum is the editorial staffs’ virtual meeting point. Your editor creates topics and the journalists will comment or
discuss about the topic. Click the topic’s name to participate in the discussion. Write your comment in the Write
a comment –textbox. Click Save and your comment will be added to forum.
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Picture 8: Write a comment in Forum
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1. General information .............................................................................................................................2

Please read this guide before starting to use MagazineFactory.

Picture 1: Log in link in the magazine’s top navigation bar

Picture 2: Log in form

Picture 3: Journalist’s opening page

Picture 4: My info -page, upper part

Picture 5: My info –page, lower part

Picture 6: the text editor

4. Click Save when your text is ready.

6. CREATE AN IMAGE ARTICLE

Picture 7: Add image

Remember to click Save when you are done!

Picture 8: Write a comment in Forum

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