What One Word Best Describes How You Feel a Year After President Obama’s Election?
NYTimes.com asks readers to pick one word that conveys their feelings – and then displays the responses in a “word train.”
Check it out. Submit something. Then compare it to what people said on Election Day 2008.
Your multimedia interview will be graded on the following elements:
1. Your person has something relevant and compelling to say about your topic or beat.
2. Write a short paragraph to introduce your subject. Include full name, information on job/school, and a few sentences that sum up the most compelling aspect of the interview.
3. Present your interview with at least two of the following elements: text, photos, audio, and video.
4. Make sure your text is free of typos and grammar and spelling mistakes.
5. Consider using bolds, subheads, etc to break up long segments of text.
6. Provide links to other web sites that will offer readers more information.
7. If you are using photos, make sure your images are clear, strong, and add something to the text. Your photos should be labeled with appropriate captions.
8. If you are using audio, edit your segment to 5 minutes or less.
9. If you are using video, break your interview into multiple clips of 2 minutes or less.
10. Ask yourself: “Is this the best way to present this interview? Would other media elements make it better, richer, or more compelling?”
Must be posted by the deadline Saturday, Nov 7 at 8:00 p.m. No late work accepted.
Due Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m.
In Journalism 2.0:
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Please change your time code setting to UTC-5. Here is how to do it.
WHAT YOU’VE DONE:
Blog Set Up 25 points
Quizzes 60 points
Posts (1-13) 130 points
Slide Show 100 points
Multimedia Interview 100 points
Total Complete 415 points
WHAT’S LEFT:
Quizzes 40 points
Posts (14-20) 70 points
Interactive 100 points
Final Project 150 points
Class Presentation 25 points
Overall Blog Assessment 100 points
Class Participation 100 points
Total to Go 585 points
If you missed or did not complete the audio exercise in class, here are the documents we used:
Audio Exercise: From your recorder to your blog instructions (in pdf format)
“Where The Wild Things Are” review script (in pdf format)
On Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, Temple University will host a day-long conference called Philadelphia Initiative for Journalistic Innovation. PhIJI is a forum for Philadelphia-area journalists and aspiring journalists to communicate about best practices, discuss issues facing journalism and journalists, and offer feedback on entrepreneurial ideas. There are forums on magazine publishing, multimedia Web sites, community newspapers, and how to launch your own publication.
It’s free for students.
For information and to register, visit http://www.temple.edu/sct/journalism/phiji/
In Journalism 2.0:
Due Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m. No late work accepted.
1. Find a relevant person with something to say about your topic. Aim high.
2. Prepare and research your questions.
3. Think online. What do you think will be the best way to tell your subject’s story. Q and A? Edited transcript? A segment of the interview? Links? Photos? Audio? Video? A combination of these elements?
4. Do your interview and gather information in various media formats (text, photos, audio, video). Go prepared. You don’t want to wish you brought a camera or recorder after the fact.
5. See what you get and then rethink Step 3. Ask again, what is the best way to tell this story?
6. Prepare your interview to post.
7. Write up a one paragraph introduction. Who is the person? Why is she/he someone we should hear from? What does she/he have to say? Make the audience want to read more.
8. Post it on your blog by the deadline. Your multimedia interview must be posted between Oct 26 and November 7 at 8:00 p.m.
9. Your interview must be presented in a multimedia format. It must include at least two of the following (text, photos, audio, video).
Here are some formats you might use:
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A is for Audio: The ABCs of Multimedia
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