Welcome to Multimedia Journalism!

Hi and welcome to your class blog!  This will be the place where we communicate between classes.  You’ll also find the Syllabus, Day-to-Day Schedule and other worthy nuggets here…..while you’re here, go ahead and hit the “Follow Blog Via Email” link to the right……

Your first assignment is to watch tonight’s State of the Union and follow The Fix blog on The Washington Post’s Web site and then weigh in with your thoughts on the experience on the comments section of this blog post.

Tuesday’s Class

Multimediaites –

I hope you are all safe, warm and well-fed.  I realize that many of you are probably operating under some strained situations after the freak snowstorm and the subsequent power outages.  UMass has opened the university on Tuesday but I realize some of you will not make it to class and that is understandable.

I will hold class on Tuesday….if you can make it, the room will be open for editing your Weather projects.  If you need to go out and shoot, that is possible as well.  Also, I will extend the deadline for your projects to the start of class on Thursday.

Stay warm,

 

Steve

 

 

 

Weather Story, continued…

Still looking for a story to do?

From the Journalism FB page:  “Off-campus students sleeping in the library because there’s no power in their apartments.  A Halloween to remember at UMass.”

 

 

 

Weather Packages (REVISED)

Just to clarify, the Deadline for the Weather Package is 5 p.m. on Nov. 2.  You will have class time to edit next class….

VIDEO TEAM ASSIGNMENT #3: Weather Feature. Teams will produce a short video with an accompanying blog entry.  The video should be 2-4 minutes in length and the blog entry should be 500-700 words.  Get 2-3 good interviews.  DEADLINE:  Post your blog entry and the video to your blog by 5 p.m. on Nov. 2.

Thursday’s Class

Ok, folks….looks like everyone will need more time to edit their QA projects next class.  So, let’s plan on having your projects edited and uploaded by the end of class on Thursday.

Also, here are the teams for the Weather Project:

Steve/Meaghan/Cameron

Mike/Shelley/Tim

Julia/Akil/

Ashley/Kiri/Hannah

Gina/Tori/David

Amanda/Brian/Katie

 

 

Blog Assignment #4

Multimediaites –

 

It looks like a good number of people missed the Blog Assignment that was due Oct. 11:

 

BLOG ASSIGNMENT #4:  Read this tutorial from John R. Henderson, a librarian at Ithaca College, on how to recognize reliable Web sites vs. junk.  After reading the tutorial, please do a 500-1,000 word blog entry analyzing the Peak Oil section of the tutorial.  Analyze each site and indicate whether it is an authoritative site or not. Offer support for each conclusion. DEADLINE:  Post to each of your blogs by 5 p.m. on Oct. 11.

 

If you missed seeing this on the Day-to-Day schedule, I will give you until 5 p.m. Friday to post this assignment to your blog.  After that, I start grading down.

 

Steve

 

 

Extra Credit #2

WHO:  Environmental journalist Peter Thomson will give a talk today at 4:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall entitled “Journalism, the Environment and the Future.”

WHAT:  Please attend and file at least eight tweets.  Try to offer questions/analysis.  Please under the hashtag:  #umassjournalism.

AT STAKE:  0-2 points to your final grade.

Blog Discussion #1

Folks –

Please read this column by Bill Keller of the NYT and weigh in with your thoughts in the comments section here by the start of class on Thursday.

 

Steve

Welcome to Multimedia Journalism, Fall 2011

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that the Syllabus and Day-to-Day Schedule are up to date if you want to get a jump on the semester.   See you in a few weeks!

 

Steve

The Bin Laden Timeline

Twitter tipped us off.

TV confirmed, gave it emotion.

Newspapers memorialized it.

Journalism ISN’T dead.