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Sure, the Medill newsroom, and our little Monday night slice of Heaven, are great place to slap content online. But come on! There’s a great big world out there, just waiting to be covered. Up close and personal.
But how, you ask? Well, you have a phone, right? Maybe even a fancy Web-enabled one? Then you have a very powerful reporting tool.
Here’s a bit of a makeup assignment to cover a couple of site analysis elements and a quiz we’ve put off for various reasons the last few weeks. The news coverage through the weekend of the Chilean earthquake and tsunami scare made for a good case study in breaking news, particularly online. Here’s your assignment: [...]
First off, everybody should be in a team of two for the final project – and one team of three set up in class last night. If you are not, please let me know ASAP and I will get you in a team. You can find the guidelines and requirements for the final project here. [...]
Techniques: Digital Storytelling Medill School of Journalism – Winter 2010 Final Project Assignment POINTS: 245 (Budget: 45 pts; Final project: 200pts) TASK: Create a multimedia presentation combining all of the new media storytelling skills presented in class this quarter. ASSIGNMENT: Teams choose a news feature story from within one of the following themes: · Chicago [...]
Here’s a quick cheat sheet on how CSS affects your page design and HTML elements. By grabbing page source – Command+U on a Mac or CTRL+click or right clicking on a PC – you’ll get a look at the HTML for each of the examples with the corresponding CSS. Since this is inline CSS, there [...]
For the midterm Monday you will need to sign up for a WordPress.com account and blog site. Take a moment to groan and say bad words. Done? Good. Here’s the deal. This is a non-hosted site – so no DreamHost or any of that hooey. We’re doing this to keep your actual sites clean of [...]
Here’s a walkthrough on how to get your Soundslides project from you computer to your Web site. Try to follow along if you need it in a pinch this weekend. Otherwise, wait it out for the clean version Monday morning sometime. Audio cleaned up so you can actually follow along now.
You may be familiar with the Labs feature that accompanies Google Mail. The Big G has now introduced a similar feature for its Google Maps application. Now available are nine new features in Google Maps Labs that can make for a richer mapping experience. A look at the Google Maps Labs options: Drag ‘n’ Zoom [...]
Techniques: Digital Storytelling Medill School of Journalism – Winter 2010 TASK: Create a piece of multimedia for your site. VALUE: 50 points ASSIGNMENT: Create a piece of multimedia for your Class Multimedia Project. (** Please note: Topic must be pitched by email to Craig via e-mail. Pitch: At least two paragraphs explaining story and how [...]
Nevermind. Vuvox does work in WordPress. What does this mean for you? Well, it’s another option for doing photo-based multimedia. Particularly good for timelineish stuff that maybe doesn’t require hard and fast dates – which Dipity requires. The compatibility issues with WordPress and Vuvox seem to be specific to the non-hosted (free) WordPress platform. So [...]
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