Quiz 4 will cover:
In Journalism 2.0
Chapter 9- Shooting Video for News
Chapter 10 – Feature Stories
Chapter 11 – Writing Scripts, Doing Voice Overs
Epilogue – Putting it All Together
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business by Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine, Feb. 25, 2008)
Due, Saturday, November 21 at 8:00 p.m.
The goal of the interactive feature assignment is to create an online news package that would only work on the Web. Try to tell a story or relay information related to your topic without a lot of text. It should allow the user to approach the information in the [...]
A timeline can be a great way to tell a story that stretches over a long-period of time.
History of Health Care Reform (NYTimes.com)
Michael Jackson’s Billboard Rankings (NYTimes.com)
Williams Sisters and a Decade of Tennis Dominance (NYTimes.com)
Maddoff Fraud (NYTimes.com)
Seven eye-popping interactive timelines (10,000words.net)
Dipity is a simple tool to create online timelines. It is open to anyone, but [...]
Due Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m.
Posts 12 and 13 (20 points)
Multimedia Interview (100 points)
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
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 [...]
Unfortunately, the free version of WordPress will not let you upload an audio file directly to your blog. But you can put your audio file on another Web site and then embed the link into your blog. Here is how to do it.
Frontline Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier is a documentary effort try to understand how technology is affecting the way we live. Frontline is also collaborating with Smith Magazine for a project called Six Words on the Digital Life. In six words, participants tell how the web and digital technology are changing how they [...]
Terms You Should Know
1. Copyright – grants the creator of a work the exclusive rights to use or not use the work as he/she sees fit.
Copyright law protects Web pages, e-mails, bulletin boards, images, music lyrics, sound and video files, and postings to discussion groups.
You should assume that anything you encounter on the Internet is [...]
An example of how a short post on a neighborhood blog becomes a national news story.
Feb 29, 2008 – 9:34 a.m. Pardon Me for Asking Blog
Feb 29, 2008 – 10:08 a.m. Brooklyn Optimist Blog
Feb 29, 2008 – 12:11 p.m. City Room Blog, NYTimes.com
March 2, 2008 – 7:30 p.m. McBrooklyn Blog
March 3, 2008 – (time unknown) [...]
Links are the life blood of your online publication. They generate traffic, readers, reputation, and legitimacy.
James Foust, author of the textbook Online Journalism, writes that “links are second only to text in their ability to convey information and meaning to the user.” But anyone can create a Web page with a list of links. As [...]
Google is experimenting with a new news feature called Fast Flip. It allows users to view news articles from dozens of major publishers and flip through them like pages of a newspaper or magazine. Google will place ads around the articles.
What do you think?
Also read about the deal behind Fast Flip.
Come hear the founders of TechnicallyPhilly.com, a Web site covering the Philadelphia region’s technology trends, talk about their experience of running a digital news start-up company. The founders — Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk, and Christopher Wink — are all recent graduates of the journalism program at Temple University.
Visit TechnicallyPhilly.com– and bring your questions.
Wednesday, September [...]
Cyberjournalist.net