Multimedia Journalism
Schedule
Wednesdays, 12:30-3:20 p.m.
Kimpel Hall 115
Blessed
are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
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JOUR
405V, Sect. 4
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Fall
2009
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Rev.
8/09
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Don't
let
these barriers keep you from participating fully in this class:
"Students with
no artistic talent or low confidence in their software skills can be
put off by elaborate multimedia packages. They may be too quick to say,
"I could never do that!" What they need to understand is that the most
complex packages are produced by teams of writers, editors, designers,
photographers and others -- and some of the team members may not
officially be part of the "online staff" of the news organization.
Chances are good that today's journalism students will collaborate on
an online project sometime in their careers, even if they take a
traditional print or broadcast job."
---Mindy McAdams, University of
Florida professor of journalism technologies
The
homework assignments listed below are due BY NOON the day on which they
are listed,
so always look ahead to the next week's listing.
Wednesday , Aug. 26 -- Course introduction
Create your blog
page
Wednesday, Sept. 2 -- Blogging and Spreadsheets
Lecture on blogs
and spreadsheets
In class
assignment on spreadsheets
ASSIGNMENTS
DUE: The first two must be posted on my blog at kshurlds.wordpress.com
We talked about
kinds of files last week. Find another kind of file, explain what it is
and put the information on my blog as a comment. You cannot duplicate
what others have written about, so doing this sooner rather than later
will make it easier on you.
Find a job
listing or job description for a journalism job that uses multimedia
and post it to my blog. No duplications. Be sure to tell where you
found it and provide the Internet link if that's where you found it.
(If not, turn in hard copy.)
Be sure you have
taken the class
survey by
now.
Wednesday, Sept. 9 -- Podcasting
Lecture on podcasting
and RSS feeds
Final Project introduced
ASSIGNMENTS
DUE: With the partner assigned to you last week, find and present
to the class online applications that allow you to record what is
happening on your desktop.
Send an e-mail to me no later than Tuesday, Sept. 8, at noon, telling
me what topic you would like to blog on, with a good paragraph about
what kind of reporting you could do, how you'll do it, what visuals
might be available, etc.
Wednesday,
Sept. 16 -- Storyboarding
Lecture on storyboarding and in-class exercise
READ: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/reporting/starttofinish/storyboarding/
Present your Final Project idea in class.
ASSIGNMENTS
DUE: Begin blogging at least twice a week.
Wednesday,
Sept. 23 -- Photography
Bring
your camera, flash card
and any cable you need to download your photos. If you don't have a
camera, you can use one of the journalism department's.
Lecture on photography
ASSIGNMENTS
DUE: With the partner assigned to you last week, find and present
to
the class photo/video storage and/or editing sites.
Find an RSS feed that applies to your blog topic and add it to your
site.
Wednesday, Sept. 30 -- Guest Speaker
ASSIGNMENT
DUE: Storyboard for Final Project; turn in hard copy.
Wednesday, Oct. 7 -- PhotoShop
Bring
your camera, flash card
and any cable you need to download your photos. If you don't have a
camera, you can use one of the journalism department's.
In-class assignment to take photos, download them, and process
them in PhotoShop.
ASSIGNMENT
DUE: With the partner assigned to you last week, find and present
to
the class "photo added" sites.
Wednesday,
Oct. 14
-- Interviewing and Audio
Lecture on good
audio and interviewing techniques.
In-class assignment to gather audio.
READ:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/school_report/5275764.stm#4
Wednesday,
Oct. 21 -- Audacity
Lecture
and practice in class
Wednesday, Oct. 28 -- Audacity
Proficiency
IN
CLASS: You will use
your interviews from Oct. 14 to edit an audio story 70-90 seconds
long, with at least two tracks.
Wednesday, Nov. 4-- SoundSlides
Lecture on SoundSlides
IN
CLASS: You will use
your audio file from last week to make a SoundSlide presentation using
your photos from Oct. 7.
Wednesday, Nov. 11 -- Adding to
Your Site
ASSIGNMENTS
DUE: With the partner assigned to you last week, find and present
to
the class online applications that you can use to create
visuals/graphics, etc., for your blog.
Final
Project Storyboard: Turn in log of all audio,
turn in storyboard of edited aujdio with photos.
Wednesday,
Nov. 18 -- Video conferencing to learn about
multimedia jobs
ASSIGNMENTS
DUE: With the partner assigned to you last week, find and present
to
the class online applications that you can use to make video conference
calls for free. For your demonstration, you must find someone who has a
journalism job using multimedia and interview him using the
application. The interview must be at least 10 minutes long and not
longer than 15.
Add a graphic (from
an application shown last week) to your blog.
Wednesday, Nov. 25 -- Thanksgiving
break NO CLASS!
ASSIGNMENT
DUE: With the partner
assigned to you on Sept. 9, you should have recorded a campus lecture
by now and edited it for podcasting. Add the podcast to MY blog.
Wednesday, Dec. 2 -- Guest Speaker
ASSIGNMENT
DUE: Final Projects are
due. We will watch them in class.
Wednesday, Dec. 9-- Dead Day
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