Aug 23

Introductions and course content

Aug 28
 

History of Internet and Web

Read:

• Introduction to Online Journalism - Foust, Chpt. 1
• Tools and Terminology - Foust, Chpt. 2
• Introduction - Briggs
• FTP, MB, RSS, Oh My - Briggs, Chpt. 1

Hobbes Internet Timeline

Glossary of Internet Terms

Internet Pioneers

Time 100: Tim Berners-Lee

How the Web Works

Chpt 1 ppt

Chpt 2 ppt

Aug 30

Web 2.0 - Briggs, Chpt. 2

Tools and Toys- Briggs, Chpt. 3

Read Why New Media Isn't by David Shedden, Poynter Online August 2, 2007

Review Poynter New Media Timeline

Computer Networks: The Herald's of Resource Sharing - actual video describing Internet in 1972

Working in Online Journalism - Foust, Chpt. 4

Read "US Newspapers Put Readers to Work" in Wired August 2007

MediaStorm
Ivory Wars

NY Times Multimedia
Amazing Girls
Wines of the Times
Casualties of War
Super Ad Bowl

CNN Special Reports
Discover Your Passions
The Future of Cars

Cyberjournalist.net Great Work Gallery - look at content under Multimedia, Interactive Stories, Use of Flash
Cool Google Maps Uses

Washington Post Photos and Video
On Being
Being a Black Man

Start weekly blog posts

FoustCh04.ppt

Sept 6
Charlotte

Blogging

Read:

• How to Blog - Briggs, Chpt. 5
• 8 of 10 Americans Know About Blogs - Media Post's Marketing Daily
• Pew Center Report - Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers

Sept. 11
Chris

HTML and Authoring - Foust, Chpt. 3

Web Page Design - Foust, Chpt. 6

• Web Workshop I handout
• Sample Stylesheet 1
• Sample Stylesheet 2
• html tutorial
• Images and Links tutorial
• Internal Links and Navigation tutorial
• Stylesheet tutorial
• Dreamweaver tutorial
• FTP Tutorial

XHTML

Due Multimedia Treatment Paper

FoustCh03.ppt

FoustCh06.ppt

Sept. 13
Haley

Web Page Design

CSS

Using Online Reporting Sources - Foust, Chpt. 5

Photoshop Handout

The Long Tail , by Chris Anderson, Wired, October 2004

Photo Gallery with Soundslides - Handout

Silent mp3

Sept. 27
Cheryl

Creating audio for your slideshows with Audacity - Handout

Media Convergence and News Aggregators - EPIC 2015

Due - Photo Gallery

Briggs04.ppt

Writing and Editing Online - Foust, Chpt. 7

How to Report News for the Web - Briggs, Chpt. 6

Using Links in Online Stories - Foust, Chpt. 8

Multimedia and Interactivity - Foust, Chpt. 9
Podcasting

Digital Audio and Podcasting - Briggs, Chpt. 7

No class today - Cindy will be attending the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Vancouver. Check her blog while she's away.

Google Documentary

Googlemania - Wired Special Issue

Mass Comm Week
Guest Speakers Angela Grant, San Antonio Expresss-News; Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon, Austin American Statesman
in OM 320

Work on Podcast. If you have a Mass Comm Week presentation that you want to attend, you may do so.

Converting Audio (using MPEG Streamclip) handout

Shooting and Managing Digital Photos - Briggs, Chpt. 8

Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories, Briggs, Chpt. 9

Due - Podcast

Briggs Chpts 8 & 9

Video Editing Handout

Basic Video Editing- Briggs, Chpt. 10

Putting It All Together - Briggs, Epilogue

Optional - Writing Scripts/Doing Voiceovers - Briggs, Chpt. 11

Legal and Ethical Issues - Foust, Chpt. 10

Opportunities and Challenges/Future Issues - Foust, Chpt. 11

Using Flash

Animated Infographics

Read the following article from Online Journalism Review:

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070523ruel/ - About Online Infographics

We will look at these in class:

• Sun Sentinel - 10 Years After Hurricane Andrew
• Star Tribune - Iraq War Weapons
• USA Today - B-52
• NY Times Interactive Wealth Calculator
• NY Times VA Tech Shooting
• NY Times Rent vs. Buy
• NY Times Critical Parts of the Structure, MN Bridge Collapse
• Cyberjournalist.net Examining Iraq Infographics
• Albertocairo.com

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060605niles/ - Interview with Adrian Holovaty

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070210ruel/index.cfm – When to Use Multimedia

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070614paul/ - Navigating Through Slideshows