Week 3 Week 3
Monday, Jan 30
Working with Foust, chapter 3 (handouts were provided for those unable to get the textbook so far)
Web design and storyboards
Three-part exercise in developing a news site (The Daily Bungle assignment)
Resources:
Basic HTML | Formatting the basic news story | Storyboarding | Creating the Storyboard
To do:
Read Foust, chapters 4 and 6, finish the "Bungle."
Wednesday, Feb. 1
Discuss Newswriting for the Web and content and credibility issues. Pajama Research.
Discuss Foust, chapters 4 and 6. Quiz postponed to Wednesday.
To do:
"Daily Bungle" assignment due on Monday. Also due Monday:
Take-away summaries of each section of "Newswriting," below. Each summary should be about 14 lines of type. Bring them to class in digital form (you may have them at the ready in your Students folder or on a jump drive). There should be nine summaries (one for each section of "story forms").
Resources:
Newswriting for the Web | Online Storytelling Forms
To do:
Practice HTML coding. Go back to the newswriting sites and give them a good read.
Respond to Cronkite blog topic.
Links visited in class:
The Ice Palace | Newsroom 101 | Linda's Story: Murder by Suicide? | The Ancient Way | Global Messengers (this time without a password!)
Powerpoints: "Tourist Guy" and "Brief History of the Internet" temporarily archived on Journalism server on campus, 425thorCOMING UP: Watch for the Internet Super Bowl ads on Sunday, Feb. 5
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