Last class 9:50 – 11:40 a.m.

Last day to turn in extra credit.

Present team project and final zine project to class.

NOON: Put all revised projects in the appropriate folders in MCO 598 (graded). All late work will lose points.

Each team: Post to Transparency Blog.

Quiz 2: CSS, Flash, prepping photo for Web, ethics, copyright, data visualization, cyberlaw, future of journalism

Redesign of Failure magazine

Advice from Pros to Journalism Grads

Official White House Photostream’s photostream

Top home run hitters

Free tutorials (Chrystall)

Revise all elements of your final zine project.

Take photos for About Us page.

Guest speaker: Mara Schiavocampo

Awful site with frames (Chrystall)

New York Times visualizations

Top home run hitters

Voronoi diagram illustration inflation and consumer spending

Work on your final zine project

E-mail Carol a short bio similar to what’s on the zine.

Read Mara Schiavocampo’s biography. A recent article calling Mara a “Journalist of the Future” appeared in AJR.

OPTIONAL: Noon on Thursday, April 30 in Room 354. Merrill Brown, a former WashPost financial reporter who later founded Court TV and MSNBC.com before moving on to  Real Networks and then helping to launch News21. Currently as a consultant, he's involved with the Steven Brlll-backed effort to create a new pay hub for news.

Quiz subjects

Work on final zine project.

Each team: Post to Transparency Blog.

BEFORE CLASS: TURN IN headline assignment (graded). Put in MCO 598 > SEO folder.

Start working on final zine project.

Read “Should the New York Times Buy Twitter?”

Optional but fun: Mad Magazine skewers Google in its 500th issue

Legal and ethical issues in the digital age

Misappropriation of USA Today story (Jill)

The Other Pirates (NPR On the Media)

Pirate Bay

Spot.Us

This Land: Ohio Serenade (video = restrained voiceover mixed with natural sound; slide show tells story with images)

SEO

Assign zine stories.

Zine About Us

Zine Archives

Finish third element of zine package.

BEFORE CLASS: Choose zine assignments on Transparency Blog. Read list and post your first and second choices.

AFTER CLASS: TURN IN third zine element.

Quiz 2 will be Monday, May 4.

OPTIONAL: Watch Twitter co-founder Evan Williams on Oprah.

10:45 a.m. Ford Burkhart, New York Times Foreign Desk (retired)

Resources for more information

Zine Facebook page

Visualizations

SFSU online magazine uses VUVOX for slideshows

SFSU Street Style

many eyes data visualization of movie genres

U.S. employment by month (2008)

Frequency of sex around the world

Frequency of sex around the world

Nancie’s slick zine interface

Work on third element of zine package.

BEFORE CLASS: Put final zine video, final script AND final zine Flash in the appropriate folders—Cronkite Zine Video FINAL, Cronkite Zine Scripts FINAL and Cronkite Zine Flash FINAL. All will be graded.

The third zine element is due Wednesday, April 22.

Adrian Holovaty in NYT

South Africa— Webby Awards Honoree

Cyberlaw

Photoshop tips

Each team: Post to Transparency Blog.

Read Learn to shoot video by Mindy McAdams.

Final zine video, final script AND final zine Flash are due next Monday, April 20. The third zine element is due Wednesday, April 22.

OPTIONAL: Follow the Cronkite School on Twitter.

News 21 Linksheet

Free Apps for Multimedia Journalists

Crisis of Credit Visualized

Submit recession photos to NYT

James Gregg on economy

James Gregg’s NPPA portfolio

James shot all video on Canon 5D and recorded audio on Olympus

Copyright practice quiz (not graded)

Colbert Report on Shepard Fairey poster case

Revise video and/or work on Flash project

BY THE END OF CLASS MONDAY: Put something from your zine project (video or Flash) for feedback in the MCO 598 > Cronkite Zine Video folder OR Cronkite Zine Flash folder.

Review copyright info on our class website, especially fair use.

Be prepared to discuss whether fair use protects Shepard Fairey’s right to do what he did. Should he have given the photographer credit? Did Fairey have the right to use the photo for a political cause rather than commercial use? Did AP put profits above public discourse? Read what Shepard Fairey says on Huff Post.

OPTIONAL: Read Jeremy’s blog about the Web 2.0 Expo.

NYT skimmer—a prototype that is meant to duplicate as near as possible a “real” newspaper

Britannica will sort of emulate wikipedia

Lunch today with Jim Gregg, Arizona Daily Star, Arizona Photographer of the Year and NPPA Photographer of the Year

Critiques by Jim Gregg

Tucson Tango

BEFORE CLASS: Put video in MCO 598 > Cronkite Zine Video folder.

Transparency Blog

Apple pitch at Cronkite School

A slideshow created with audio and video gathered on an iPhone

Are panoramas underused in multimedia?

Using music in a video

L&G formula for compressing video

Finalize your presentation for Wednesday—your video project as well as edited photos, video or sound bites

BEFORE CLASS: Put draft of script in MCO 598 Cronkite Zine Scripts folder.

Continue shooting and editing!

Start working on your Flash project.

Optional: Read about Jim Brady on Chris’ blog and Elizabeth's blog.

Huffington Post is launching investigative journalism

Lunch next Wednesday with Jim Gregg, Arizona Daily Star, Arizona Photographer of the Year and NPPA Photographer of the Year

Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Final Salute

Zine project: Continue producing video in FCP or iMovie.

Zine/team project: Start Flash project for your own project or CSS/Flash module for your team project.

BEFORE CLASS: Put revised home page and inside page of project module in MCO Cronkite Zine Mockups FINAL folder.

Each team: Post to Transparency Blog.

Continue shooting and editing!

Start researching your Flash project.

Extra credit op: Jim Brady, recently departed executive editor of WashingtonPost.com,
will be visiting us on Thursday for a brown-bag (BYO) lunch in Room
375 (third floor conference room). Time is noon to 1 pm.

Model-Morphosis

Did You Know? 3.0

Discuss video grading rubric.

Discuss Flash idea.

Zine team: Revise home page and inside page of project module.

Zine team: Discuss who is doing what in terms of Flash and building your module.

Zine project: Continue editing photos, video and/or audio. Show edits to Carol and Nancie. Start producing video in FCP or iMovie.

BEFORE CLASS: Put corrected Flash project in MCO 598 Flash FINAL folder.

Continue shooting and editing!

Bring in one idea for Flash for your zine project. You can do a Flash piece OR design the module for your team in CSS/Flash.

Look at video grading rubric.

10:30-11:45 a.m. in Room 444—Mike Dunn, CTO/VP Hearst Corp., on Hearst’s decade-long transition to digital among all its news, entertainment (and other info) media properties (print, broadcast, other); its vision, priorities and investments in new media technology for journalism, news.

Continue editing photos, video and/or audio.

Show edits to Carol and Nancie.

BEFORE CLASS: Put home page and inside page of project module in MCO 598 > Project Design Photoshop folder.

Read “The Era of Ominiscience Is Over” (an oldie but goodies).

Freebase

NPPA video

Making Rice Paper in Cambodia

Writing scripts

Zine team: Design home page and inside page of project module in Photoshop with teammates.

Zine project: Edit photos, video and/or audio.

Zine project: Begin to write script.

BEFORE CLASS: Put final Flash in MCO 598 > Flash FINAL folder. Include .fla and .swf files! Make sure the .fla is CS3.

Bring in photos, video and/or audio to edit in class.

OPTIONAL: SixthSense is a wearable innovative device that overlays everyday objects with real-time visualizations in order to inform users about normally invisible information relevant to the objects in view. Imagine ingredients beamed on top of apple pies or Facebook comments projected on people’s foreheads.

OPTIONAL: Register and watch Brian Storm’s “Creating a Rich Media Podcast with FCP” (13:00).

Thursday, March 19, at 9 a.m. in 444 (big conference room)—Adrian Holovaty

Discuss tentative schedule.

Discuss Media Cloud.

Periodic Table of Typefaces

Getting Your First Job in Journalism— $14.95 for a one-hour Poynter Webinar at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, April 8

Border: Revise Flash piece.

Zine team: Design home page and inside page of project module in Photoshop with teammates

BEFORE CLASS: Put revised sidebar in MCO 598 > Sidebars Revised.

Look over tentative schedule. Bring in questions and concerns.

Reserve a video and/or still camera. Start shooting!

Watch Ethan Zuckerman on Media Cloud OR read the transcript. You can play along at mediacloud.org. Post on the Blackboard Discussion Board the following items:
1. One quote that sums up the main point.
2. One question you’d ask Ethan Zuckerman if you could talk to him.
3. One quiz question—AND ANSWER—that probes your understanding of Media Cloud.that probes your understanding of Media Cloud.

OPTIONAL: If you have photos, video and/or audio for your zine project, bring it in.

$10,000 grants for women-led projects that will rock the world of journalism. See New Media Women Entrepreneurs.

Wednesday, March 18, 7-8:30 p.m. in First Amendment Forum— Sunshine Week Scenarios: Examining Open Government

Monday, March 23, at 7 p.m. in First Amendment Forum—Babak Dehghanpisheh, Newsweek’s Baghdad bureau chief, will discuss “The War of Ideas.”

Transparency Blog

Paul Revere

Zine team: Discuss storyboards with teammates; sketch and/or outline a final plan and TURN IN by the end of class

Border: Work on Flash piece; show it to Carol and Nancie for feedback

BEFORE CLASS: Send Carol the link to the REVISED map mashup (graded).

BEFORE CLASS: Put your Flash project in the MCO 598 folder called Flash. This draft will not be graded, but the final version will be graded. You’ll receive feedback on this draft to guide you as you work on the revision.

Do research, make contacts and set up interviews for your zine multimedia project.

SKETCH AND TURN IN a storyboard for your zine project AND a written description of what you plan to do. Keep it simple. Focus. Tell a bigger story through one character. At a minimum, include a MediaStorm-type presentation and a Flash piece. Consider a little text and a visual sidebar like the one in My Elephant, My Brother.

NO CLASS!

SPRING BREAK

HAVE FUN! BE SAFE!

NO CLASS!

SPRING BREAK

HAVE FUN! BE SAFE!

Discuss Danville.

Discuss Living With Autism.

Discuss Leonard’s Look: The Ride of Our Lives.

Jeff’s map

Berkeley Junkyard

Quiz 1: Photoshop, photography, photo ethics, design and CSS

Work on Flash project.

Study for the quiz.

LOOK AT Danville in terms of character development.

LOOK AT NPPA winner Living With Autism, which is a strong audio slideshow. How does it compare with Hungry?

LOOK AT Leonard’s Look: The Ride of Our Lives. Note the scenes of the videographers (Mike Leonard and his son) at work, including one that reveals emotional sensitivity and distance. What universal experiences does this video touch on?

OPTIONAL: Read Chris’ blog post about Bill Gannon’s visit.

Discuss Nieman article.

Discuss Kids With Guns.

Discuss ethics of audio editing.

Flash timeline

Number of links on home page of 98 top sites

15 Strangest College Courses in America

Twictionary
attwaction A crush (intellectual or physical) on a fellow twitterer.    
egotwistical Tending to talk excessively about oneself on Twitter.
illtwitterate The uninitiated. Those who don’t get it.
twantwam When somebody throws a tantrum.

Work on Flash project.

READ Nieman article.

READ about the art of writing sidebars.

BEFORE CLASS: Put your sidebar (a Word document is fine) in the folder called Sidebars. Make sure it has a title and an introduction. Follow AP style.

BEFORE CLASS: Send Carol the link to your map mashup (graded). Include a title, short intro and, if appropriate, the source, such as a government agency. Follow AP style.

BEFORE CLASS: Put the revised home page and inside page for border project in the Border Designs Revision folder. Include CSS as well as Photoshop.

TURN IN team evaluation.

BRING IN content for Flash for your project for borders.

Discuss Hungry.

Discuss My Elephant, My Brother.

Discuss Haiti’s Last Plateau.

Look at Defining Change.

Discuss Flash projects and sidebars.

Creating a Google map mashup

Adding content

Google Maps street view

Revise your border pages. Finish the CSS!

If time, create a map mashup for your project. Send Carol the URL. Include a title, short intro and, if appropriate, the source, such as a government agency.

LOOK AT Hungry as a possible model for your multimedia piece. How did you feel? Why? How could you achieve that with your story?

LOOK AT My Elephant, My Brother as another possible model. How did you feel? Why? How could you achieve that with your story?

LOOK AT Haiti’s Last Plateau. Do you agree with the judge who wrote: “Gaby Bruna’s entry was among the most thoughtful work I had seen in five years as a Hearst print judge.”

READ your border story.

BRING IN info for a map mashup for your border story—geographical locations, statistics, any photos, etc. For sources of copyright-free photos, see photography.html.

TURN IN one idea for a Flash project AND a sidebar for your border story.

Optional: READ Rebekah’s blog posting about Bill Gannon’s talk.

Optional: If you’re shaky with Flash, play along with Mrs. Dodge’s Flash Getting Started Tutorial.

Guest speaker: Jason Zasky, founder of Failure magazine

Show me the money (business and advertising)

Join us for lunch afterward! Everyone is welcome!

Refine logo, home page and inside page for presentation.

TURN IN your preferences for a border story.

By 11:15 a.m.: Finalize logo, home page and inside page designs/CSS with your teammates, then put them in the BORDER folder. We’ll discuss and vote in class.

All the stories are posted on the Blackboard Discussion Board as well as in our MCO598 folder in a folder called Border Stories. The photos I have so far are in our MCO 598 folder in a folder called Border Photos.

READ “NYT Readers Brainstorm Business Models, Paying for Online News.”

READ “You Can’t Sell News by the Slice.”

READ “Think Beyond Paying for News Content.”

Discuss 10,000 Words AND back issue on photojournalism

Batch processing

Metadata

Negotiating strategies for team project

Companionship

Animal Odd Couple (teamwork)

Colors Palette Generator (Chris)

Interesting interface 1

Interesting interface 2

Flash timeline

Each team: Use Photoshop and CSS to design a logo, a home page and an inside page for the border project.

READ four border stories.

TURN IN a storyboard of a story page and a possible color scheme (hex codes) for the border site. Use Photoshop, Illustrator or a similar program. Try the color generators on our class Web site. Include a banner, navigation, story (with a title, subtitle and byline), photos, sidebar (which you’ll write) and multimedia (you’ll each create a Flash piece and a map mashup). You’ll work in teams to design and code a story page.

Spend a few minutes looking at 10,000 Words AND the back issue on photojournalism.

Optional: READ Rebekah’s live-blog of Scott Rosenberg’s talk.

What’s the verdict? Left Behind

What’s the verdict? Kobré Guide

Discuss Dan Gillmor’s Journalism Education's Broader, Deeper Mission.

Multimedia storytelling

Discuss multimedia ideas.

Lily Ciric-Hoffmann, East Valley Tribune multimedia whiz

Flash review

Extra-credit op: Thursday, Feb. 19, 12-1 p.m., Bill Gannon, director of online operations,  
LucasFilm Ltd. (Third Floor Conference Room)

Plant Photoshop

Vandelay Design (Evan)

Funny Flash

Flash Getting Started Tutorial

BEFORE CLASS: Put Abe Lincoln exercise (graded) in the Abe Lincoln folder.

BEFORE CLASS: Brainstorm your multimedia proposal with an idea map. On the Blackboard Discussion Board post a paragraph or two describing what you’d like to do. Would you like to do a solo project? Or do some short pieces for CNN’s iReports? Or work as part of a team on a module about water issues in the desert? Or the revitalization of downtown Phoenix? Or pick houses on an interesting old Phoenix street and do multimedia portraits of the residents? Or resources for Cronkite students? Or what a prospective Cronkite grad student would want to know? Or an insider’s guide to the Cronkite School? Or an insider’s guide to downtown Phoenix? What multimedia elements would you use? What would each element show?

Spend a few minutes looking at Kobré Guide. What’s the verdict in terms of content, Web design and usability?

Spend a few minutes reading Dan Gillmor’s Journalism Education's Broader, Deeper Mission. What do you think of his principles? What would you do if you ran a journalism school?

Brian Storm PowerPoint

Dreamweaver: Building a page with CSS boxes

Nancie’s CSS tutorial (in different formats) is in our MCO 598 folder in a folder called Presents_from_ MrsDodge.

Practice building and styling a page with CSS.

Begin Abe Lincoln exercise (graded).

Extra-credit op: Thursday, Feb. 12, 12-1 p.m., Scott Rosenberg, author and co-founder of Salon magazine (Third Floor Conference Room)

BEFORE CLASS: Put CSS exercise (graded) in the CSS folder.

Spend a few minutes looking at Left Behind. Can you adapt any of these techniques in your visual storytelling?

Dreamweaver: Styling a page with CSS

Discuss ideas for zine projects.

Discuss your MediaStorm favorites.

11:30 a.m. Mark Hinojosa, director of new media for Detroit News

CSS tutorials

Middle East Journalism Boot Camp

What not to do! Thunder Entertainment

Extra-credit op: Mark Hinojosa, Cronkite Forum tonight 7-8:30 p.m.

Practice CSS to style “Jabberwocky.”

Begin CSS exercise (graded), which is due before class on Wednesday.

BEFORE CLASS: FINISH three Typography exercises (graded): 1) logo for Border Fence, 2) contrasting pairs and 3) same contrasting pairs—only more creative! Put them in the Typography folder. Instructions are on the lab page.

LOOK AT several MediaStorm videos, pick a favorite and be prepared to tell us why you like it.

BRING IN an idea for a project for the Cronkite Zine. It could be a short text story, a MediaStorm-type production and a Flash interactive. Or weekly polls, quizzes and user-generated content. Or whatever!

LOOK AT the Detroit Free Press Web site in preparation for Monday’s visit of Mark Hinojosa, director of new media. He’ll discuss the reader-centric newsroom: “The idea is that journalist forget how to think like the folks they are writing for. Journalist are so well informed about the topics they are writing that what they often find interesting in a story is not reflective of the lives of their readers. So the talk, which is mostly off the cuff, touches on how we can connect with readers without going all Britney all the time.”

Optional but helpful: READ The Principles of Type.

Discuss Chapter 4 on photojournalism and ethics.

What’s the verdict? Interactive Narratives

Designing Web pages: Design principles, color and typography

What’s in a name?

Photoshop: Batch-processing photos, metadata, selection tool, adjustment layer and masks

Photoshop: Working with type and shapes

War Haunted—Liz

In conjunction with NYT, EveryBlock has added political items.

New EveryBlock section notifies you whenever local elected representatives are mentioned in NYT.

Dad’s Tie Theory of Color Harmony

Experiment with words.

Start three Typography exercises (graded).

READ Chapter 4 in Black Star booklet on photojournalism and ethics. What one interesting, confusing or surprising thing stands out?

Spend a few minutes looking at Interactive Narratives. What’s the verdict in terms of content, Web design and usability?

By midnight Wednesday: PUT your best photo and caption in the YourShot0204 folder. Instructions are on the lab page.

We’ll do rolling submissions to Your Shot so we’re not competing against each other. You may submit as many images as you like. Extra credit if yours is chosen! Keep watching! 2.4—Jeff and Chris. 2.5—Desi and Adriane. 2.9—Travis and Chrystall. 2.10—Bailey and Rebekah. 2.11—Jeremy and Christine. 2.12—Elizabeth and Cody. 2.16—Jill and Sukanya. 2.17—Evan, Yvonne and Sonja.

Retha Hill—NMIL

Photos That Lie: The ethics of photo manipulation

Discuss Chapter 3 on photojournalism and ethics.

What’s the verdict? Multimedia Shooter

Show five NEW photos PLUS your best from last Monday to Randy Reid for final selection for Your Shot.

The art of writing captions

Write a prize-winning caption.

Work on photo (if time).

Submit your best photos to Your Shot (if time).

BEFORE CLASS: SUBMIT five NEW photos for Your Shot to show Randy Reid PLUS your best images that he selected last Monday. Put them in the YourShot0202 folder. Instructions are on the lab page.

SEND Carol the Course Report for Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner. SPEND AT LEAST 45 MINUTES. What one surprising or interesting thing did you learn?

READ Chapter 3 in Black Star booklet on photojournalism and ethics. What one interesting, confusing or surprising thing stands out? See the actual photos here. OPTIONAL: Check out the controversial Lebanon War photos on zombietime, a site run by a pseudonymous photographer that documents apparent far left, antisemitic or anti-American views. Some of the links no long work.

Spend a few minutes looking at Multimedia Shooter. What’s the verdict in terms of content, Web design and usability?

Discuss Chapters 1 and 2 on photojournalism and ethics.

Storytelling with photos

Photo editing

Joe McNally

Cropping

Politifact’s Obamameter (St. Petersburg Times) tracks whether Obama keeps campaign promises.

Zoom in on inauguration photo

NYT graphic of how people experienced inauguration

Photoshop: Review prepping photos for the Web

Raw files

GO TO Blackboard Assignments. Electronically sign the Academic Integrity Pledge. File it per the instructions in the Assignments section.

DOWNLOAD the free Black Star booklet on photojournalism and ethics.

READ Chapters 1 and 2 (19 short pages). What one interesting or surprising thing stands out?

OPTIONAL: If you need a Photoshop refresher, read Photoshop Basics and/or look at REVIEW (OPTIONAL).

JibJab

South Africa

What’s ahead?

Meyers-Briggs

Introductions

Getting in Shape

Word clouds

Obama inaugural speech word cloud

CNN iReports on inauguration (Jill)

NYT on Facebook (Jill)

YouTube featured videos of presidential speeches (Jill)

OPTIONAL: Try sample video tutorials at lynda.com and CBT Cafe.

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