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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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