Week 10

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26

LECTURE
Pictures That Lie

Ethics Gruesome Pix 425.ppt

Cutlines.ppt

LAB
New York Times current events quiz
http://nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/index.html

Multimedia storytelling: From report to experience
1. Be a baggage screener
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/airport_security/screener/default.asp

Multimedia storytelling: From explain to experiment
1. PBS’s Your Coffee Dollar
2. Rochester Democrat Rochester’s Future

Sites we looked at in class this week

Times of London has two home pages: UK and global
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/global

Digital Journalist (online monthly multimedia magazine for photojournalism in digital age): http://www.digitaljournalist.org/

Cecil R. SchwalbeTwo javelina lie back to back and nose to tail in our backyard.

DUE THIS THURSDAY
1. Post your eighth blog entry by midnight. Please include a photo AND a caption or a reference to the photo (right) in the text.

2. Study for the quiz on graphics for the Web, Dreamweaver CSS, writing for the Web, Jason of Failure Magazine and interactive storytelling.

OPTIONAL: If you want to raise the grade on your slide show, put the revision in your student folder and give Carol the checklist AND her comments by this Thursday, Oct. 26.

OPTIONAL: Come to Nancie’s class every Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in our classroom (Stauffer A-114). No quizzes, no grades!

DUE NEXT TUESDAY
1. Read the copyright information on our class Web site.

2. Read “Google’s Book Battle.” Underline the different stakeholders—Google, the AAP, book authors and consumers. Jot down how you would represent each interested party. We’ll do some role-playing in class on Tuesday.

3. Continue working on your team project.

OPTIONAL FOR EXTRA CREDIT: You’re the judge in an online journalism contest. Pick one winner and TURN IN a short critique of each of the five entries below. Include two things you like and two things you do not like. This category honors excellence in digital journalism by a student or team reporting on a single story or issue.
1. Chasing Crusoe, UNC Chapel Hill, http://www.rcrusoe.org
2. My Blue-Eyed Girl, Berkeley, http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/mm/gehlert
3. Peavine Explorations, Reynolds School, http://www.unr.edu/journalism/peavine
4. Rezoned, Columbia, http://rezoned2006.com/index.html
5. The Ancient Way, UNC Chapel Hill, http://www.theancientway.org/main.htm

OPTIONAL: Come to Nancie’s class every Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in our classroom (Stauffer A-114). No quizzes, no grades!

Jump to top