Course Outline and Assigned Readings
June 2 |
Introductions and course content Fast Company Purpose and structure of course Intro to Wordpress Lab: Video - History of Internet and Web, Part I
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June 3 |
Intro and Chapter 1 - We Are All Web Workers Now
Lab: History of Internet and Web, Part II |
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June 6
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Review Poynter New Media Timeline Computer Networks: The Herald's of Resource Sharing - actual video describing Internet in 1972 Lab: HTML5 Concepts/Exercise
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| June 7 |
Chapter 3: Crowd-Powered Collaboration
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June 8 |
Lab: Work on HTML5/CSS3 Exercise
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Lab Exercise HTML5/CSS3 Exercise due |
June 9 |
Chapter 6: Visual Storytelling with Photographs
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June 10
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Media Day - find 2 photo stories. Shoot photos for use in stories next week |
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| June 13 |
Intro to our Wordpress installation Examples of Photo Stories |
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| June 14 |
The
Long Tail, by Chris Anderson, Wired, October 2004 Lab: Work on Photo Slideshow |
Photo slideshow project due |
| June 15 |
Flash vs. HTML5 - The Future? Lab: Work on Photo Slideshow in Flash
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June 16 |
Chapter 7 - Making audio journalism “visible” Lab: Work on Photo Slideshow in Flash |
Flash Slideshow due |
| June 17 |
Media Day - Photos for audio story |
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| June 20 |
Audio Slideshow Examples |
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| June 21 |
Using Final Cut to create an audio slideshow Lab: Work on Audio Slideshow |
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| June 22 |
Lab: Work on Audio Slideshow |
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| June 23 |
Read: Chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video Lab: Using an HD Camcorder |
Audio slideshow due |
| June 24 |
Media Day Video |
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| June 27 |
Video examples Adam Bender Other Places for Multimedia Inspiration |
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| June 28 |
Lab: Work on Video Project |
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| June 29 |
Converting Audio (using MPEG Streamclip) handout Lab: Work on Video project |
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| June 30 | Lab: Work on Video project |
Video project due - character-driven narrative |
| July 1 |
Read: Journalism Next Chapter 9: Data-driven Journalism Find a data source to use in a data story NY Times Magazine, Goosing the Grey Lady NY Times - When Data Struts Its Stuff http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060605niles/ - Interview with Adrian Holovaty
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| July 4 | Independence Day Holiday |
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| July 5 | Data story examples Living with Less Wordtrain - NY Times Hillary Clinton First Lady Schedules Evan Smith - Texas Tribune video from paidcontent.org Lab: Google Fusion Tables and Charts/Visualizations |
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| July 6 | Read: Journalism Next Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation Read: Journalism Next Chapter 11: Building a Digital Audience for News Lab: Work on Data Project |
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| July 7 | Future Trends - Gowalla, Foursquare, Facebook Places, OpenSocial, Open Graph, Net Neutrality, Cloud Computing, Data Visualizations Analyzing Data is the Future for Journalists Pew Internet - 4% of Americans Use Location Services Videos: Lab: Work on Data Project |
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| July 8 | Wrap up and questions Lab: Work on Data Project |
Data project due |