Week 7

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

LAB
Compare features, such as live coverage, animations and video.

Has a lot of stuff (video, still pictures, blogs) been contributed by citizen journalists?

• What is the ONE thing you liked BEST?

1. Local WWL-TV http://www.wwltv.com/ vs. national MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/

2. Local WDSU-TV http://www.wdsu.com/index.html vs. national CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

3. WGNO-TV (ABC 26) http://abc26.trb.com/ vs. national ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/

4. Local FOX 8-TV http://fox8live.com/ vs. national FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/

5. New Orleans Times Picayune http://www.nola.com/ vs. national New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/

6. BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/ vs. CNN (look at the impressive videos) http://www.cnn.com/index.aol.html

7. Arizona Republic http://www.azcentral.com/ vs. East Valley Tribune http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/

SITES WE LOOKED AT IN CLASS

Photoshop tutorial http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/tutorials/photoshop/

Free fonts (in case you can’t find what you want): http://www.acidfonts.com

Medill School of Journalism
http://newsinitiative.org/story/2006/08/15/digital_trails

Mojos (mobile journalists) http://www.gannett.com/go/newswatch/2006/february/nw0210-2.htm

Citizen photojournalists: Newspapers, TV stations, and networks are asking everyday folks to share their stories in what they are calling “citizen journalism” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9076525/

Cecil R. SchwalbeThe cupped passion flower stays open all day.

DUE THIS THURSDAY
1. Post your fifth blog entry by midnight. Include a video link as well as a regular link. Here are sources of video:
• http://video.google.com/
• http://www.altavista.com/video/default
• http://video.search.yahoo.com/
• http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp
• http://www.blinkx.tv/
• http://www.alltheweb.com (Click on the VIDEO tab)
• http://www.dogpile.com/ (Click on the VIDEO tab)

2. Bring in the assets (photos, text, video, whatever) you need to finish your personal Web site.

3. Review the Photoshop tutorial to reinforce what we practiced in class: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/tutorials/photoshop/ You never know what might be on the next quiz!

IMPORTANT! NO CLASS WITH NANCIE THIS THURSDAY!

DUE NEXT TUESDAY
1. Turn in three Q&As based on Jason Zasky’s talk.

2. Finish your personal site by next Thursday, October 12. Depending on far along you are, you may need to work on it outside class. Click on Lab times for (guess what?) info about the computer labs and how to sign onto the JRN server.

Your personal site needs to include at least four pages: a home page (which can be your photo/bio/audio), your résumé, your slide show and a fourth page of your choosing. It could be your font poem, your videos or your writing samples.

3. Look at the other student online magazines listed below. HAND IN two things you like and two things you dislike about each site. Look at the design, navigation, usability, interactivity and content.

a. The Ball Bearings from Ball State University (2nd place)
b. The Burr from Kent State University (3rd place)
c. University of Oregon’s Flux
d. University of Missouri’s Vox
e. Baltimore Stories from Towson University
f . Magazine World from Humber College

4. Also HAND IN two things you like AND two things you do NOT like about the design, navigation, usability, interactivity and/or content of the Cronkite Zine, which is the online magazine for the Cronkite School. For the things you do NOT like, suggest how they could be improved. You’ll be producing the next edition later this semester! Look at two editions, such as these:
      http://cronkitezine.asu.edu
      http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/spring2005/index.html

All assignments must be typed, not handwritten. We’ll talk about these in class next Tuesday.

Here’s what the judge said when we won first place in a national contest:

Why it won: The Devil's Tale design has a fresh, crisp look to it with an endearing flash animation on the homepage showing off the best content from the issue. Unfortunately, there aren't any playback controls for pausing or returning to a feature or even skipping ahead. Despite this slight usability issue, the cover does a good job of promoting stories with large art and custom typography. But where most designers add far too much content to their front page, here the designers didn't quite have enough to satisfy my desire to see more. I was hoping the large artwork from the front page would also show up on story layouts, but inside pages did have a good use of inline graphics and additional information. I was delighted to see pull quotes used consistently, and the liberal use of photos throughout stories.

I was pleased to see a lot of audio and video content, it made the magazine feel more thorough and immersive from a storytelling perspective. Overall a nice site with attention to detail. Had this site featured more content on the front page and larger, more attractive artwork on the inside pages this would have been a clear winner - as it stands now it wins but just by a small margin.

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!

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