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| Class Schedule, Readings, Notes (below) | Blogglob Foust's companion Web site | Online Journalism Review | Cyberjournalist | Contact information |
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| Days | JMC 425 ONLINE MEDIA SCHEDULE (subject to change) | Links, readings (*=required) |
| Wednesday, January 19 | Introductions; overview of the course; "Resources" handout and discussion | * HTML Overview |
| Monday, January 24 | Syllabus; blogging basics; intro to HTML and Dreamweaver; formation of collaborative work groups for semester projects; working in the Editing Lab and with the Journalism server | * Foust, Chapters 1 and 2 |
| Wednesday, January 26 | Intro to Photoshop basics | * Foust, Chapter 3 |
| Monday, January31 | Discussion on shovelware and original content; storyboarding In class: "Bloggers share the view from election day in Iraq" -- part of the Wall Street Journal online coverage "Storyboarding" from the Multimedia Reporting unit at Berkeley "Creating the Storyboard" from UNCC Multimedia report for analysis: The Ice Palace |
* DW: "Add Tables" |
| Wednesday, February 2 | Terminology, HTML quiz; working with tables | * Foust, Chapter 4 |
| Monday, February 7 | Project proposal due; case studies | |
| Wednesday, February 9 | Convergence challenges and opportunites; slide-show basics | * Foust, Chapter 5 |
| Monday, February 14 | Online reporting sources | Development of Web journalism: "Is it journalism?" "We've only just begun" "Online advances" "The difference a year makes" |
| Wednesday, February 16 | Online references | * Foust, Chapter 6 |
| Monday, February 21 | Quiz 2; Web page design |
* Interactive color tool |
| Wednesday, February 23 | Project storyboard and work rosters due; color and design theory | * Foust, Chapter 7 |
| Monday, February 28 | Writing and editing online | * Online storytelling forms |
| Wednesday, March 2 | Guests: Mark Hiland, AZCentral, and Randy Jessee, Richmond Times-Dispatch | * Foust, Chapter 8 |
| Monday, March 7 | [Links: production and presentation]--postponed Broadcast influence: Dr. Bill Silcock |
Broadcast/Web Tour |
| Wednesday, March 9 | Guest professor: Carol Schwalbe [Working with shells, templates -- may be postponed] Quiz 3: Locating examples |
* Foust, Chapter 9 |
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| Monday, March 21 | Who's a journalist and why might it matter? | SPJ panel: Challenges and threats to free speech, 4:30-6, Coor LI-20. EFF campaign site. "The gathering storms over free speech" | The Flash History (optional) "The book stops here" "Who is a journalist?" |
| Wednesday, March 23 | Multimedia, interactivity-- the citizen journalist. NowPublic, wikis. Lab work. Lessig's experiment. Wikipedia. Ohmynews. Blogglob goes back in business after the break for spring. |
"Redefining the news online" from Digitizing the News |
| Monday, March 28 | Group/professor meetings to discuss projects (30-40 minutes each) | |
| Wednesday, March 30 | Group/professor project work | RSS feeds for journalists | * Foust, Chapter 10 * Tasini v. New York Times |
| Monday, April 4 | Legal and ethical issues | Bloggers code of ethics? |
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| Wednesday, April 6 | Animated commentary; parody sites | How to make an Internet cartoon |
| Monday, April 11 | Hate and advocacy sites | |
| Wednesday, April 13 | Lab work | |
| Monday, April 18 | Projects due | * Foust, Chapter 11 * "The Internet and the Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal" |
| Wednesday, April 20 | Presentations |
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| Monday, April 25 | Opportunities and challenges; Clinton/Lewinsky | |
| Wednesday, April 27 | Constraints and opportunities of the "daily me" concept | |
| Monday, May 2 | Quiz 4; personal pages due | |