Archive for September, 2009
NPR Piece on Health Care
Multimediates –
Listen to this piece that NPR ran this morning. It’s an interesting, personal look at health care.
Steve
SBS Wing Thing
Open to ALL SBS Undergrads:
When: Thursday, September 24, from 4-6:00 pm
Where: Outside of Thompson and Machmer Halls (adjacent to the connecting corridor)
What: There will be wings, chili, chips & salsa, and other treats
A Couple of Things
Multimediates –
The hashtag for the Kent State Ethics Panel is:
#ksuethics09
In order to have your blog up and running for Thursday’s assignment, you should have the “About” section filled out; a good headline for the blog; and your widgets set up.
Also, please send me paragraph outlining your blog topic by the start of class on Tuesday.
thx,
Steve
Another Cool Multimedia Feature
Check out this new feature by Google.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Saturday’s Extra Credit
Attend and write about NENF meeting in Amherst Sept. 12 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Jones Library. 1-2 points available to be added onto your final grade. You can either tweet about it or do a 1-2 page analysis.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )9/11 Coverage
Multimediaites –
I helped to edit this package on the one-year anniversary of the attacks. We’ll talk about the use of music in audio slideshows throughout the course of the semester. What’s your thought about the use of music here?
Also, here are two distinct approaches to coverage of today’s anniversary. Shapiro’s written piece in Politics Daily [...]
Two More Good Reads
Multimediates –
Here’s a couple of good reads on social media:
* 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
* Twitter as Ambient Journalism
Steve
More on Health Care
Hi multimediaites:
If you can, get yourself in front of a TV tonight at 8. President Obama is scheduled to deliver a key speech to Congress on health-care reform.
If you know how to set up Google Alerts, please set one up for health care. This is a really nifty way to stay on top of health [...]
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Multimedia Journalism!
Now is a great time to be learning these skills, so get ready to cover a lot of ground this semester.
Every semester I teach this class, I tweak the syllabus. This semester, the class will be part of a Global Collaborative Reporting Project. We’ll be dividing up into teams and [...]
