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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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
So here’s a feature that could be of use to some of you in your mapping assignments, but there are some hoops to jump through, albeit semi-easy ones. Sorry for the late notice if you’ve already completed a map, but it’s still good to know. I use a geo-locational service called Brightkite for Sun-Times breaking [...]
Techniques: Digital Storytelling Medill School of Journalism – Winter 2010 Homework: Class Multimedia Project #1 – Peer Review (20 points) SKILL: Analysis of an online storytelling assignment. TASK: Analyze an audio slideshow. VALUE: 20 points ASSIGNMENT: Write a two paragraph critical analysis of an audio slideshow. Include your comments about the narrative, topic, quality of [...]
Techniques: Digital Storytelling Medill School of Journalism – Winter 2010 (Feb. 1, 2010) SKILL: Analysis of an online storytelling assignment. TASK: Analyze an audio slideshow. VALUE: 20 points ASSIGNMENT: Write a one to two page critical analysis of an audio slideshow. Include your comments about the narrative, topic, quality of audio and photos, editing and [...]
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