Week 9

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19

LECTURE
Multimedia storytelling

Video

LAB

From report to experience
1. Why is this the best way to use the medium?
2. What’s good?
3. What’s not?
4. How would you improve it?

Be a baggage screener
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/airport_security/screener/default.asp

SITES WE LOOKED AT IN CLASS

Knight Foundation
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WV3m3PsKO0
• http://www.newschallenge.org

Deerfield Forum http://www.forumhome.org/

David Pogue's video blog won ONA's Online Commentary competition, large publications Stop Motion Movies

Nicholas Kristof is a New York Times op ed columnist = OPINION
Why Should We Care?

commonlanguageproject.net

Dove Soap commercial http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=bizarre&id=4653697

What does your drink say about you? http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/Drink_Personality/drink.html

Church signs http://channels.isp.netscape.com/atplay/holymistakes.jsp

Pictures that lie
http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6033210-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

Touching Hearts http://www.heraldsun.com/heart/
When the page opens, click on BETTER. WRITE DOWN two reasons why this site is a great example of visual storytelling. Watch Oscar’s story. It portrays the death of a young boy in just 11 photos, 440 audio words, and 200 text words. Do you think the still images are more powerful than quick-moving video?

Berkeley

Cecil R. SchwalbeTilly, the male (note his red eyes) box turtle that lives in our front yard in Tucson, waits by the front door for his morning ration of mealworms.

DUE THIS THURSDAY
1. Post your seventh blog entry by midnight. Be sure to include a photo.

2. By the end of class on Thursday, TURN IN one team planning sheet and storyboard for your team project.

3. Read the handouts that deal with your generation, the digital natives. HAND IN a typed one-page reaction. Are the various descriptions of your generation accurate? How should new media cater to your likes and interests? Should teachers change the way they teach?

4. As part of your reaction (#3), look at the AP news Web site for 18- to 35-year-olds called asap (http://asap.ap.org/fronts/news.s). WRITE DOWN two things you like and two thing you do not like about this site. All assignments must be typed, not handwritten.

5. Come with one idea for the Knight Challenge.

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
Post your seventh blog entry by midnight Thursday. Be sure to include a photo.

1. Read the handout on “Writing Online.”

2. Read the handout on The Digital Darkroom.” On page 384 and pages 386-391, you do NOT have to read the material at the bottom of the page. On the next quiz you might have to adjust, resize and save a photo for the Web.

3. TURN IN three questions and answers for the third quiz, which will be next Thursday. It will cover graphics for the Web, Dreamweaver CSS, writing for the Web, Jason of Failure Magazine and interactive storytelling. We’ll have a review session next Tuesday. You won’t receive any points if you don’t turn in any Q&As!

4. 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. Hartman Murder Files, University of Alaska Fairbanks, http://www.uaf.edu/extreme
2. Crossing Borders, Arizona State University, http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/Mexico
3. Global Messengers, University of North Carolina, http://www.ibiblio.org/solympics
4. Nations Within a Nation, Arizona State University, http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/nations/index.html
5. Public Art @ ASU, Arizona State University, http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/publicart/public_art.html

5. Keep refining your idea for the Knight Challenge. It could be something you’d want to do on our own or something a class could do.

OPTIONAL: Turn in your revised slide show next Thursday. To receive extra points, you must include my old comments.

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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