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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: [...]
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 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 [...]
These are a few online tools you can use for digital storytelling elements – specifically timeline and mapping items for this week’s assignments: Timelines Dipity Haiti Earthquake on Dipity. Dipity offers the ability to plot various points in time through text, photos, embeddable video and other elements. TimeLine TimeLine is another timeline developer, with less [...]
The good(er) The Los Angeles Times has a report on murders since the start of the year that makes use of some great, simple storytelling tools. They have their own reporting, first and foremost, of course. No small task as they fan out to bring the detail of lost lives into focus. But the main [...]
This may ramble. Feel free to nap intermittently: HOMEWORK Soundslides: For Monday’s class, you will need an audio slideshow produced with Soundslides. A minimum of 15 images with backing audio is expected and it will probably be in the 90-second range, give or take. This is the first assignment that will be part of your [...]
As the aftermath in Haiti following a 7.0 earthquake turns from a natural disaster into a human tragedy of epic proportions, the story is being in what is becoming a familiar mix of traditional reporting and 140-character bursts of information. The continuing evolution of social media – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. – and the Internet [...]
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