Class Schedule
Sep 10th, 2008 by admin
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Thurs Sept 11: Review multimedia news sites (P/F mini-assignment w/assessment)
Tues Sept 16: 1st assignment: McCain & Obama, in non US news: impact if elected?
Thurs Sept 18: Intro to cameras w/ Bob; vlogging; Election 2008 Kick-Off @ Driscoll Lawn (12-3)(Read ahead: We the Media ch. 1 & 2 blog due Mon night/Tues midnight)
Mon Sept 22: 2nd assignment: your vlog due (aka cameras returned) by 10.
Tues Sept 23: 3rd assignment: 300 words on We the Media 1 & 2. View vlogs; upload Vimeo instructions; Global Students Online intro, register, & video showcase.
Thurs Sept 25: trip to channel 7 RESCHED FOR OCT; instead, in class: storytelling, editing, intro to on the street assignment.(read Journalism 2.0 ch. 8 & 9 on shooting for today). May check out cameras today.
Tues Sept 30: Rosh Hashanah. More on shooting & storytelling; selecting materials for GSO; in class blog for TMTW.
Thurs Oct 2: 4th assignment: 300 words on We the Media ch. 3 & 5. Editing in Sturm; shooting on-the-street continues.
Fri Oct 3: Morehshin available to dump footage from camera to drive and into editing
Tues Oct 7: editing in Sturm 216; shooting continues if needed (read Journalism 2.0 ch. 10). Brainstorming story ideas.
Thurs Oct 9: Yom Kippur. Editing in Sturm 216. Brainstorming story ideas.
Fri Oct 10: 5th assignment: on-the-street packages due at 5.
Tues Oct 14: Sukkot. 6th assignment: read Journalism 2.0 from beginning through ch. 1, on RSS feeds, news alerts. Then tell us which RSS feeds and news alerts you’ve signed up for via the class blog. Be prepared to discuss your final project, whether it’s a video or 1,000 word print story. We’ll have group time to work on this and discuss how the various stories will work together as a larger multimedia news effort. See bottom of this page for guidelines on final project.
Thurs Oct 16: No class.
Tues Oct 21: 8th assignment: read Journalism 2.0 ch. 2, and then sign up for and use Flickr, code your blog entries with Digg, Technorati, Reddit, Slashdot, Newsvine, del.icio.us, tags and discuss in class blog. ALSO TODAY: Field trip to the Rocky Mountain News. Arrange to car pool and get there by 10:30 AM. Meet Laressa Bachelor, director of all things digital there, at the reception area. Look up Rocky Mountain News on google maps to get directions; bring your parking pass up to get it validated.
Thurs Oct 23: 9th assignment: story idea finalized and first interview quote due on class blog. See bottom of this page for guidelines on finalizing this project. As we didn’t look at stories that are similar to your idea, we’ll do that today, so please bring one or two to show us. These are stories that are similar in content, not necessarily in form (e.g., it might be a print story that covers material similar to your video story).
Tues Oct 28: 10th assignment: Video editing day (writers come to DMS and work on phone calling/writing). See bottom of this page for guidelines on this project.
Thurs Oct 30: 11th assignment: Video editing day. First draft due by 11:59 PM. See bottom of page for guidelines.
Friday Oct 31: I will get feedback to you for completing your final version of the package.
Tues Nov 4: 12th assignment: Final draft due (midnight the night before). Teleconference with Iran students at 8:30 AM. See bottom of this page for guidelines on final project.
Thurs Nov 6: 13th assignment: Blog a response to the teleconference with Iranian students. In class: discuss teleconference. Review Middle Eastern news sources in English.
Tues Nov 11: 14th assignment: Two blogs on We the Media 6, 7, 8 & 9 (Next Steps, Trolls/Spin/Boundary of trust); 10, 11, 12(here come judges & lawyers, Empire strikes back, Making our own news). Archiving and finalizing our site.
Thurs Nov 13: 15th assignment: Guest speaker: Rachel Monserrate, DU grad, speaking on the DMCA, journalism, & freedom of expression. Final final project deadline. View final projects.
Tues Nov 18: 16th assignment: final reflection papers (2,000 words) due. Meet for breakfast for final class. See bottom of page for reflection paper guidelines. We will discuss reflections over breakfast.
On the final project (story idea and first interview quote due Oct 23; first draft due Oct 30; to be totally completed Nov. 4):
1. You will work in groups of 2 or 3. It can be the same group you’ve had, or you can change if you want based on what topics your fellow classmates want to write/work on.
2. You can do a 1,000 word print story with a photo, or a 2-3 minute video package. (note that this won’t be another person-on-the-street, but needs to tell one story, perhaps of a person affected or organized around a topic)
3. Each project needs to have:
3 interviewees quoted
1 external source (stats, history book, etc.)
A coherent topic that relates to the multimedia news story we’ll all tell together as a class
Possible topics include:
- How students in the U.S. and Iran view the U.S. presidential election: a comparison
- How today’s financial crisis can be compared to the Great Depression in terms of the student experience, and how students today think about the financial crisis in relation to the Great Depression
- How the financial system in Iran differs from that of the U.S., and how they critique the capitalist/free market
- How students are being affected: credit crisis, college enrollments up but colleges facing cuts to services and programs
On the final reflection paper (2,000 words for 12:00 Nov 18):
Reflecting on the readings and projects from this course, answer the following questions in the form of a narrative:
1. Considering your own work in this class as a journalist, what is the most challenging aspect of producing news in a multimedia context?
2. As a consumer/reader/viewer, what did you find to be the most promising or potentially beneficial aspect of multimedia news?
3. What where the benefits, if any, of considering students in Iran as an audience for the multimedia packages you produced? What did you learn from that aspect of the production process? How did it change the way in which you organized your story and/or how you thought about how it might be viewed?
4. What example did you come across in class that you will remember and perhaps even refer to as a model for good multimedia journalism? Why do you think it is a good model? (if you can’t recall any, discuss one that you find now).
Use at least 3 direct quotes from We the Media in this format: “According to Dan Gillmour (2004), bloggers have changed journalism because xxxx. As he writes, “xxxxx”. (p. 21). I agree/disagree with this because….”
End the paper with a reference list that includes the Gillmour book (and possibly the Journalism 2.0 book, although not necessary), and the multimedia news story you reference. This should be in APA format. Check online for APA guidelines if you’re not sure what this looks like.