Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Reporting assignments completed

The students worked on these packages in teams of three. The focus of the assignment was to practice gathering information from the Web and presenting it in a way that would be consistent with Web standards. This was not to be a complicated or technically sophisticated multimedia presentation.

For some, it was a re-introduction to reporting basics. For others, it was a more of a refresher course.

The teams that generally mixed students from the various concentrations in the journalism department. This is a precursor to the more complex multimedia storytelling assignment that will take up most of the last six weeks of the course.

Here are the packages:

State of the C-State
Fighting a Killer: CSU takes on tuberculosis
CSU anticipates news computer science building
The word on the street
America's best place to live?
Creativity comes alive on the streets