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Monday, Jan. 23
Guest: Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland
We'll be talking about participatory journalism and online influences.
If time, we will begin an introduction to HTML and blogging basics, and will view some award-winning online presentations.
To do:
Set up online subscriptions to a news-alert or budget service from a major news outlet of your choice.
Suggestions:
CBS, The New York Times, Slate.
Read Foust, chapters 1 and 2.
Wednesday, Jan. 25
HTML intro and practice. Forming collaborative groups for semester projects. Begin discussion of Foust, chapters 1 and 2.
To do:
Practice HTML coding by starting your resume, an "about me" page for an eventual personal Web site, or other useful project.
Read chapters 1 and 2 of Foust for discussion on Monday (work on getting the text ASAP if you don't have it yet)..
Respond to Cronkite blog topic.
Resources:
HTML Cheatsheet | Color Wheel | free download of BBEdit Lite (Macs) | TextWrangler (Macs)
Basic HTML from J-learning | Handout: Basic HTML (hard copy only since a cut-and-paste option would defeat the purpose)
Links visited or spoken of in class:
Color pickers: Visibone | Web Source | Color Picker II | Scheme Generator |
Participatory journalism: iBrattleboro | YourHub | OhMyNews | "Chiloe Stories" | NYT Multimedia